MUSILIB: Music for Children's Multicultural Learning

Contract Information

Programme:	EACEA PROGRAMMES
Programme Acronym:	EACEA: ERASMUS+
Contract Type:	NO CONTRACT TYPE
Start Date:	2018-09-01
End Date:	2021-02-28
Contract No:	2018-1-FI01-KA201-047196
Role for TUC/MUSIC:	Contractor
Funding for TUC/MUSIC:	57955.0 Euros
Principal Investigator for TUC/MUSIC:	Stavros Christodoulakis

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Project Description

Twenty-first century children live in an increasingly interconnected, diverse and rapidly changing world. They need not only to develop their social skills to interact and engage with people from diverse cultures in a respectful way but also appreciate and benefit from cultural differences. Although there have been no doubts about the importance and necessity of cultural awareness and cultural understanding, how these can be taught at schools and what tangible outcomes might be for children and the wider community remains a challenge.

MUSILIB Project aims to address this challenge in several ways with a body of interrelated outputs. It offers an expanded multi-lingual and multi-cultural library for children based on the previous successful MultiLib project, with traditional and contemporary children’s stories in 12 different languages, including 6 languages spoken by migrants. MUSILIB will include Music as the main medium for socio-cultural inclusion and to address multicultural skills for all children, migrant and non migrant alike.

The project offers new ideas, inspirations, methodology and tools to foster social inclusion by using a very effective medium: Music. Group musical experiences build sensitivity, harmony and cooperation as individuals unite in common emotional responses. All project outputs relate to music. Through them, the project aims at fostering multicultural skills, social cohesion, respect for diversity and harmonious relationships.

The project will design unique outputs:

• Expanded Library building on the previous successful MultiLib project;
• Music / Soundtrack with a traditional instrument for each story in the e-library
• MUSILIB Teacher Video Kit
• MUSILIB by Children – an innovative multimedia Library made by children
• MUSILIB Repository (OER) and web 2.0 communication platform
• Upscaling of MultiLib Library into 'MUSILIB Library for Children in Europe'.

The project will be delivered by a vibrant partnership of 7 partners from across Europe, primary schools, language school, education providers and universities.

Workshops in each partner countries and a final conference, adding to a strong dissemination, will give the project an ample perspective for future expansion and applications making MUSILIB a clearly sustainable project.

Project Publications

(4) Performative Framework and Case Study for Technology-Enhanced Learning Communities

Publication Authors: Moumoutzis N., Sifakis G., Christodoulakis S., Paneva-Marinova D., Pavlova L.
Publication Info: SPIIRAS Proceedings, Informatics and Automation, 20(4), pp. 905-939. 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications

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(3) Integrating Design Thinking, Digital Technologies and the Arts to Explore Peace, War and Social Justice Concepts with Young Children

Publication Authors: Hatzigianni M., Gregoriadis A., Moumoutzis N., Christoulakis M., Alexiou V.
Publication Info: Embedding STEAM in Early Childhood Education and Care 2021
Publication Type: Book Chapters

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(2) A Reference Framework to Establish and Sustain Onlife Communities and Its Use Rich Learning Experiences in History with ViSTPro

Publication Authors: Moumoutzis N., Sifakis G., Christodoulakis S., Marinova Paneva D.
Publication Info: DiPP 2019 Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage. Vol. 9, Sofia, Bulgaria: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – BAS 2019
Publication Type: Conference Publications

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(1) A Performative Framework to Establish and Sustain Onlife Communities and its Use to Design a Mobile App to Extend a Digital Storytelling Platform with New Capabilities

Publication Authors: Moumoutzis N., Christoulakis M., Koukis A., Maragoudakis I., Christodoulakis S., Marinova Paneva D.
Publication Info: 2019 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL), Thessaloniki, Greece, 31 Oct. - 1 Nov. 2019
Publication Type: Conference Publications

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Project Consortium

	Övermark Skola The Övermark Skola	FI
	CUCUROVA CUKUROVA UNIVERSITESI	TR
	MOSAIC Mosaic Art and Sound	UK
	IYMF International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation	BE
	Viksjöfors skola Viksjöfors skola	SE
	PELICAN Jazykova skola s pravem statni jazykove zkousky PELICAN, s.r.o.	CZ