Description

The project promotes innovative and inclusive education by integrating artistic practices into teacher-training degrees through an artist-in-residence co-teaching model. It will build a transnational network of at least 25 educators, cultural institutions, artists and researchers to co-design intercultural learning experiences focused on STEAM, active methodologies and diverse or vulnerable educational contexts.

The project will embed arts-based practices into university teaching through artist-in-residence programmes, hands-on learning experiences for more than 200 students, joint workshops, digital resources, co-creation labs, interdisciplinary courses and school visits in vulnerable communities in Catalonia, Romania and Iceland.

General Aims

GO1: To establish a transnational network where artists, teachers and researchers collaborate to develop innovative, intercultural teaching practices that enhance university teaching and promote inclusive, creative education for vulnerable communities.

GO2: To design and implement a transdisciplinary instructional model with artists-in-residence, educators and researchers. Grounded in STEAM, the model will foster creativity, critical thinking and inclusivity, preparing future educators to support diverse and vulnerable learning contexts.

Specific Aims

SO1: Develop a Framework for Art & Education, identifying research evidence and best practices.

SO2: Establish an open-access database of Artist-in-residence in HE Initiatives with TIC-powered systems for easy access.

SO3: Promote cross-sectoral collaboration to exchange knowledge between universities, schools, and cultural institutions.

SO4: Develop guidelines for co-creation spaces to support collaboration between cultural and educational settings.

SO5: Co-create and test open methodologies and pedagogical materials with artists, teachers, and researchers to advance creative and critical thinking in educational settings.

SO6: Establish long-term artist residencies to support co-teaching, using digital technologies for personalized learning for vulnerable students.

SO7: To promote the presence of women contemporary artists in Higher Education and develop research in a sustainability approach.

SO8: To share the research of the project, to disseminate the experience of artists-in residence at education universities to improve the European higher education and the future of early and primary education.

SO9: To inspire other professionals to include the connection between universities and the cultural sector, inviting artists and museum mediators to improve university teaching and learning.