Motivation and project objectives

Both participating schools intend to train professionals in the field of the arts, especially music, preparing them for higher education. We understand that the exchange of good practices between centers in different parts of Europe does nothing but favor the development of high quality skills and competences in the artistic field. Likewise, our project aims to use and disseminate European cultural heritage through work in chamber groups and in orchestras of works from the European musical tradition.

In the case of the IES Princesa Galiana, this project will help consolidate high school studies in performing arts, music and dance. For the Liceul de Artă,,Ștefan Luchian" it will be the first exchange experience with students.

The exchange activities are essential to know the experiences, work methods and dynamics in the associated centers, in addition to supplying a cultural enrichment for all participants.

For each school and each participating group, they represent an important leap in educational quality by sharing experiences that enrich the teaching-learning process that we develop. Each visit contains theoretical and practical educational activities and also contact with the cultural reality of the neighboring country: rehearsals, concerts and meetings with professionals. They promote the creativity and teamwork capacity of the participants with the development of joint musical mini-projects or the organization and planning of the final concerts. For teachers, contact with their colleagues is a boost for their teaching activity,

an opportunity to integrate other ways of approaching studies and subjects, other didactic methods, other forms of organization of time and school groups. Digital media will be a fundamental tool of the project itself and will be integrated into the work of both centers.

For the boys and girls they represent a true life transforming experience, they face new environments, language difficulties, they know ways of working, they share activities and experiences with colleagues from the associated center, they coexist with their entire educational community, in short, they integrate, by a few days, in a sister society and culture, with similarities and differences and they feel that they belong to a common European project.

We believe that this project can be of great repercussion for the two centers and the two participating cities in that it can greatly energize their cultural life, improving the quality of their artistic studies, the training of their future artists, promoting cultural exchange between the two cities and both countries, highlighting the historical and artistic heritage of Romania, Spain, Botosani and Toledo, and laying the foundations to create a European exchange network between centers specialized in musical teaching integrated in secondary education.

Objectives

The project we present is related to one of the main activities that we have developed for years in both centers, the rehearsal with chamber and orchestral groups and the organization of musical events. Throughout our respective experiences we have detected similar needs, which also leads us to set common objectives.

- Offer a more complete training to our students. We must increase the experiences we offer to our students and give them the opportunity to perform in different contexts.

- Know the organization of musical studies and their integration into the general education of the other center.

- Participate in mixed groups of students from both schools that select, rehearse and interpret works of European cultural heritage.

- Holding events in which students from the two centers participate that have an impact on Botosani and Toledo.

- Develop oral and written communication skills in English in our students and teachers. We believe that it is essential in these studies, on the one hand that students acquire practical training in foreign languages ​​and, on the other, that they have contact with the artistic world of their environment (European).

- Strengthen skills (in students and teachers) in the use of online cooperative work tools. The experience of the year 2020 with confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic is going to be curiously very useful in this regard, since we are forcibly learning very quickly to handle various videoconferencing applications, shared documents, virtual calendars, etc.

- Ultimately, to help our students to continue with higher studies in music.

- Help to spread and appreciate the European musical heritage.

- Consolidate and promote new European projects in our schools.