2016-2018
Project Title: NAIP: Training Artists Without Borders
Beneficiary: Iceland University of the Arts
Grant: €266.532 for 24 months
This project aimed at the modernisation of curricula and learning environment, through an interdisciplinary dialogue between higher education in music and performing arts.
This project presents the opportunities offered by cross-border and cross-art collaboration as a tool for curricular innovation, with active participation of academics and students in the field of music and performing arts, as well as players from the professional field. The project developed a format for a new cross-art learning module, new online learning approaches and a guide for mentoring as a tool for innovation, professional integration and talent development.
2015-2019
Project Title: Creative Leadership & Entrepreneurship - Visionary Education Roadmap
Beneficiary: SHENKAR ENGINEERING.DESIGN.ART (PBC)
Grant: €1.638.089 for 36 months
CLEVER (Creative Leadership & Entrepreneurship - Visionary Education Roadmap), an initiative led by the Innovation Center ACT Shenkar with the participation of a consortium of 15 institutions from Israel and from Europe, was a funded project by the European Commission (EACEA) under the Erasmus+ Programme, for a period of 3 years (2015-2018).
CLEVER aims to promote the Creative Industries in Israel in terms of education, economy and policy, with the ultimate goal to build creative communities that contribute to shaping the 21st century economic prosperity, wellbeing and civil society in positive ways.
2014-2016
Project Title: NAIP: Innovation in European Higher Music Education
Beneficiary: Iceland University of the Arts
Grant: €246.623 for 24 months
This project aimed at the modernisation of curricula, and teaching and learning approaches in higher music education through a further development of the European Music Master for New Audiences and Innovative Practice (NAIP). The focus was on developing new content and sustainable structures for the NAIP training programme in terms of curriculum, mobility and recognition. It developed expertise with regards to the pedagogical knowledge and skills of the NAIP teachers, and strengthened the position of the NAIP philosophy in regular training programmes in music. The project aimed at developing and spreading the ideology of creative collaborative learning methods, with the aim of increasing collaborative composition, improvisation, practice based research and building up personal skills in traditional study programmes in music.