Project objectives

The general objective of the IncluMusic project is to increase the number of students with Special Education needs enrolling in Higher Music Education Institutions (HMEIs). By the end of the project, the partners will create a self-paced course for reinforcing the competencies of HMEI teachers and administrative staff in the field of Special Education, creating a new professional role aimed at monitoring social inclusion practices and training process and creating a community of inclusive HMEIs

The Specific Objectives of the project all aim at building inclusive higher education systems and rewarding excellence in learning, teaching and skills development. More in detail, the IncluMusic project aims at:

• Reinforcing the competencies of HMEI teachers and HMEI administrative staff in the field of Special Education;
• Creating a new professional role, the Academic tutor, aimed at monitoring social inclusion practices within HMEIs and the training process of Higher Music Education Institutions (HMEI) teachers;
• Reinforcing the skills of Academic staff to help them work for inclusion together with the Academic tutor for Inclusive Music Teaching;
• Defining new approaches for training HMEIs’s students with Special Educational Needs and creating a community of HMEIs adopting social inclusion practices.