The project "CONTEST. - Meeting the Challenge Of Inclusion Through music and trained staff" is presented by the Comprehensive Institute of Tarquinia in partnership with eight European schools of Romania, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Croatia, Germany and Poland and has its primary focus in the achievement of the full inclusion of students with fewer opportunities and special needs within the context of education, through the development of a new multidisciplinary educational approach that turns around music, the creation and exchange of good practices aimed at inclusion. All schools in partnership have highlighted the need to explore new methods and strengthen the training of teachers to address the various cognitive levels and learning abilities, enhancing the excellence and supporting, reaching the highest possible degree of educational success, more complicated pupils. CONTEST will last 29 months has the following general objectives: - Develop the basic and trasversal skills of learners (multilingualism, digital skills, learning to learn, social and civic competences, cultural awareness and expression) using innovative multidisciplinary pedagogical approaches - Reduce disparities in learning outcomes that impact on learners with fewer opportunities and disabled - Strengthen the professional profile of teachers, helping them manage complex realities within classes and adopt new methods and tools and the following specific objectives: - To promote a real integration of the student with disability within the class so he/she will nott feel different from others and that class mates themselves will benefit from his/her presence, having this as a valuable opportunity for growth and maturation as person and citizen - Create a new curriculum that turns around music as a key element, involving different subjects of study in an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach - Develop the skills of teaching staff, investing in training and in the exchange of good practices in the field of inclusion. Our project will involve 4 teachers and 24 students from each partner school: students will be chosen to represent all the possible ranges of academic achievement, excellence to medium to serious disability in activities absolutely innovative for three main reasons: 1. For their multidisciplinary: all projects adopted so far focused attention only on the support of care, especially on students with disabilities and not integrating different disciplines nor different levels of learning ability 2. For their European dimension: the width of the partnership and the ambition to create and exchange best practices, using English and French as vehicular languages, is certainly an element of novelty 3. For the final product: the development of an innovative curriculum, to be adopted in all partner schools in the second year of the project and to be made available as open educational resource, both through the European Dissemination Platform and other channels, for all European schools that wish to use it or implement it, represents a new and exciting challenge for us all. There are two training events for teachers and one blended mobility for students planned. Students will meet only once in Italy in May 2017, within the context of the Music Prize City of Tarquinia, which will help give enormous visibility to our project. The first staff training event will allow us to compare, using methods of non-formal learning, the various inclusive approaches adopted in the different partner schools, while the second will address the issue of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary in view of the pilot test within the classes of the new curriculum just developed. 5 "Ambassadors" students will participate in physical mobility, one of them with special needs, chosen according to the motivation and the performance demonstrated during the implementation of activities in each country. The"Contest" Curriculum will be a new curriculum, focused on the theme of music analyzed through the lens of different disciplines (mother tongue and foreign languages, Science, Physical Education, Mathematics, Design, History and Geography) developed and made available as OER with open licence, together with teaching materials, modules and teaching units, video tutorials and sample classes on several web platforms for dissemination. The project will thus have an impact on individuals (direct and indirect beneficiaries), on all partner organizations and the school system as a whole at European level, seeking to involve policy makers and supranational networks, in order to generate mainstreaming and long-term benefits.