MUS-E Amigos em Direto (Live Friends – LiF) Context: Digital communication tools have entered the daily lives of schools in the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to its urgent implementation, its understanding remains basic. It is justified to invest in these new media, because they will be powerful tools in the future of the new generations. The MUS-E Program maintains an international network of artists, with its own methodology, working on inclusion by artistic practice in Basic Education, in academic time and in coordination with teachers. Description of activities and methodology: The MUS-E Live Friends Project (MUS-E LiF) will incorporate a structure with 7 partners and their previous experiences will be seen as complementary. It will be developed in 4 regions / municipalities: Asturias, Budapest, Leiria and Kassel. It will involve about 90 teachers, 900 students, 30 artists and 25 technicians from the 4 countries. More than 80 volunteers and trainee students from higher education will collaborate. It will involve the families of the students (about 500 people) and the community (about 2000 indirect beneficiaries). The MUS-E LiF will therefore integrate actors from the teaching sector (teachers, students and auxiliaries) and actors from the culture and creativity sector (MUS-E artists). MUS-E LiF aims to connect basic education classes (6-10 years) from 4 European countries within the MUS-E school network using modern digital synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. The duration of the MUS-E-E LiF (24 months) will be divided into 4 periods sensitive to the school calendar and in each, classes of different nationalities will be asked for communication and development of work proposals. The content of these proposals will be that of Artistic Expressions, to be developed in the project sessions, in school time, in collaboration and international coordination between teachers and artists. These activities will be the subject of formal presentations, online, open to the educational community and recorded for future memory. In parallel, synchronous and asynchronous knowledge exchange activities on schools, communities, languages, uses and customs will be promoted in order to strengthen European ties. Families will be invited to participate, helping students make their contributions. Interspersing these working periods, each country will hold a transnational meeting in which representatives of all partners will participate, for preparation (briefing)of the next period and reflection on the previous period (debriefing). The second meeting will be transnational formation, taking advantage of the teachings of the first period, launch and great learning. The last meeting will be only debriefing and compilation of good practices. Coordination meetings will be held between project partners and representatives of the educational communities of each municipality. Goals: The MUS-E LiF Project, assumes the following objectives, coinciding with the expected results and impacts: The promotion of students' creativity in artistic expressions (music, dance, movement, theater, visual arts...) and their adaptation to the digital universe. The promotion of digital, synchronous and asynchronous media within the school community. The promotion of European cohesion, from the ages of basic education, through knowledge, understanding, acceptance and online interaction with international counterparts. The integration into the local and international group of disadvantaged children (and their families), by broadening their horizons and motivation for school and for the future. Outputs: The result of the artistic practices developed by the students, in multimedia materials, open and available to the educational community. Reflection on the work performed during the Project and the compilation of experiences and good practices, for dissemination through digital e-twinning platforms and social networks. The preparation of a report with the evaluation process (initial, process and final evaluation). Results and Impact (according to the established objectives): Students will enjoy: International contact with their counterparts. Strengthening European perception and identity. Practice of digital communication technologies and multimedia production. Promotion of creativity in artistic expressions and in its adaptation to the digital universe. Motivation for school attendance, by submitting proposals of high interest. Integration of disadvantaged or at-risk pupils from social exclusion and their families by broadening their social horizons. Teachers and artists will enjoy: Access to international contact with their counterparts. Practice of digital communication, translation, and multimedia production technologies. Practice of coordinating artistic and educational activities in an international context. Practice of their own artistic expressions, in an international context.
The promotion of students' creativity in artistic expressions (music, dance, movement, theatre, visual arts,...) and their adaptation to the digital universe. The promotion of European cohesion, from the ages of Basic Education, through knowledge, understanding, acceptance and online interaction with students of other nationalities. Integration into the local and international group of underprivileged children (and their families), broadening their horizons and motivating them for school and for the future. The promotion of learning the best practices in the use of new digital communication technologies, in order to create friendships at a distance between classes of elementary school. At the same time, we wanted to empower MUS-E artists, teachers and other people involved in the digital techniques needed to carry out this project.
The Associação Yehudi Menuhin Portugal, is part of the network of associations and foundations dependent on International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation based in Brussels. This network of institutions works in primary schools across Europe, on topics such as inclusion, support for pedagogical activities through non-formal teaching strategies, motivation for learning, and a good school environment. The arts, music, dance, theater among other arts, are our tools. We live in a time when distances are shortened, and the world has become a village. It seemed to us that the objectives we work on a daily basis in our schools have an international dimension. We felt it was important to give our children the opportunity to contact students from other countries, fostering empathy and contributing to a more cohesive Europe and ultimately to a future of peace.