Aims and results

Aims

  • Developing multidisciplinary methods for capturing, assessing and harnessing the societal impact of the arts
  • Reducing isolation amongst women, children and minority groups from peripheral EU regions through various forms of participation in the arts
  • Educating women and children through various educational models and philosophies of participation that are informed by arts-based approaches
  • Evaluate and develop new policy frameworks for using arts to overcome societal challenges
  • Valuing and learning through alternative knowledge systems with the purpose of decolonising institutions, enable communication and implement policies

Expected Results

  • Culturally marginalised and / or socially underprivileged groups will express their problems and collaborate on finding solutions through innovative arts education practices.  
  • Tackle exclusion and various forms of poverty by formulating, experimenting with and testing innovative art-based practices aimed at mutual understanding, dialogue and civic participation.
  • Prioritise, recognise and promote the value of creativity within the peripheries of Europe.
  • Acknowledge creative potentials and act on creative opportunities.
  • The integration of the arts in the strategic overall and regional goals and policy making processes of the EU that relates to tackling a variety of exclusion issues (e.g. cultural, educational, skills) 

AMASS European Testbed 

This European-wide learning and mentoring network supported by targeted service solutions such as training offerings for artists, community members and leaders, organisations, and policy makers will provide an opportunity to experience mentored innovation – an educational model successfully employed for facilitating the introduction of computer-supported teaching and learning in Roma schools (Kárpáti & Dorner, 2012).

The model proposes the stages of

  • collaborative needs analysis;
  • development of strategies for educational interventions based on local needs;
  • mentored adaptation of good practice;
  • introduction of local strength;
  • creation of synergy between local resources and innovation requirements;
  • facilitating the realisation of the project
  • peer review of results;
  • collaborative planning of the next iteration.

Experts and researchers

Satu Miettinen (Principal Investigator, ULAP Lead)

Melanie Sarantou (Coordinator / Research Fellow, ULAP)

Maria Huhmarniemi (Research Fellow, ULAP)

Mirja Hiltunen (Research Fellow, ULAP)

Sofia Lindström Sol (Research Fellow, HB Lead)

Andrea Kárpáti (Research Fellow, CUB Lead)

Raphael Vella (Research Fellow, UOM Lead)

Ângela Saldanha (Research Fellow, APECV Lead)

Tang Tang (Research Fellow, ULeeds Lead)

Marie Fulkova (Research Fellow, CU Lead)

Silvia Remotti (Research Fellow, PACO Lead)