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Development project Western Balkan Music Academies
Preparing Western Balkan music academies for membership
The project ‘Widening participation on the road to membership’ aims to tune music academies in the Western Balkans region with European educational and administrative standards at the higher education level. In addition the objective is to widen participation in higher music education by better and easier access for children and youth to early stage higher music education. The project, which is contracted by the Royal College of Music in Stockholm
and co-ordinated by the European Association of Conservatoires, will run from 15 March 2009 to 30 June 2011.
Projectpartners
• Academy of Arts of the University of Banja Luka,
• Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo,
• Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade,
• Music Academy of the University of Montenegro, and
• Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad.
Music Academy Sarajevo
Bologna Declaration and participation in EU programmes
In order to tune Western Balkan music academies with European educational and administrative standards at higher education level, knowledge and skills of academic and management staff in the various technical principles of the Bologna Declaration process and related issues need to be developed. Furthermore, international and European cooperation tools and methods need to be developed with the aim to enhance the attractiveness of the academies to foreign students and to prepare participation in the EU programmes.
Regional centres of expertise
To widen participation in higher music education, the position of the academies need to be further developed as regional centres of expertise for music education through an improved offer of continuing professional development provision to teachers. Furthermore, expertise in the area of pre-college training needs to be developed through cooperation with institutions at the pre-college training level in other European countries.
Counsellors Research group LLMA to Sarajevo
The research group Lifelong Learning in Music & the Arts is involved in this tuning process by sending counsellors to the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo. Counsellors will be visiting the same academies four times over the project period to assist academies with issues relevant to their development. In November 2009 Rineke Smilde and Evert Bisschop Boele have visited the Music Academy in Sarajevo for the first time. The second visit will take place in April 2010.
During a lesson
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