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INTERCULTURAL AND TRANSCULTURAL COMPETENCE THROUGH COLLABORATIVE CULTURAL EXPRESSION

Project description

Intercultural and transcultural competence for social inclusion

Given the unprecedented speed and scale of forced migration and climate mobility in Europe, the role of the arts in education is essential for promoting social inclusion, diversity, and cohesion. The EU-funded INTRACOMP project will enhance intercultural and transcultural competence (ITC) in lifelong learning, with a focus on cultural awareness and expression. Aligned with the New European Bauhaus initiative, the project addresses cultural hierarchies and exclusions in the arts and education. It will develop a competence framework for evaluating ITC in performing arts education, from early childhood to community contexts, involving partners from northern, southern, and eastern Europe, as well as organisations in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

Objective

Amidst the unprecedented speed and scale of forced migration and climate mobility in Europe, arts in education has a significant role in promoting social inclusion, diversity and cohesion. Critically exploring cultural hierarchies, divisions and exclusions within arts and education, INTRACOMP develops methods, digital resources and frameworks for advancing Intercultural and Transcultural Competence (ITC) in lifelong learning in Cultural Awareness and Expression. Aligned with NEB, ITC inspires “Together” and “Beautiful” through collaborations on innovative, meaningful, complex and temporary expressions of culture, and enables arts learners to continually transform paradigms and social behaviours. INTRACOMP empowers this disposition and capability through the research and innovation of a viable competence framework (for individuals, groups, organisations and systems) that identifies, evidences, evaluates and scaffolds ITC in performing arts education, from ECE to tertiary and community contexts. To achieve this, the transdisciplinary INTRACOMP consortium explores ITC within diverse societal locations in Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe, through partners situated in cultural organisations and tertiary institutions in Norway, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Italy, the UK, Serbia, Slovakia, Greece and Hungary. INTRACOMP partners in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea provide further opportunities to extend these education and community arts interventions in the Global South, questioning Eurocentric assumptions regarding ITC, acculturative stress and arts in education. The resulting ITC Framework provides learners, teachers, groups and organisations with a common reference point for ITC and its complex internal dimensions and proficiency levels. Through this integrated and multi-pronged approach, arts in education will enhance the inclusion and ITC of all children and young people in Europe and beyond.

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01

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Coordinator

NORD UNIVERSITET
Net EU contribution
€ 636 045,00
Address
UNIVERSITETSALLEEN 11
8026 BODO
Norway
Region
Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 636 045,00

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