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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Conservatoire of Music "G.B.Martini" was the first Italian Conservatoire to take part in the Erasmus Project when it was part of the Socrates Program. It also participated to the later LLP Program/Erasmus and since the origin of the European Project our Institution hosted students and teachers. The main objective of our Conservatoire was to involve students and teachers in a European educational vision. If at the beginning during the Socrates Program, the number of mobilities were only a few, during the LLP Program, more and more participants enjoyed the possibility of exchange. This is was the engine for a fast internationalization of our Institute which got involved also in other international projects independent from the Erasmus Program. These new International Relations encouraged debate on methodologies and the result is a new didactic energy and new contents: we got in contact with other European cultures and had the possibility to export the Italian Music culture which benefits from a long ancient tradition. The possibility of participating in this mobility Project encouraged many students and teachers were to improve the knowledge of the English language. During the Academic Year 2014/2015 there was a trend reversal in realized mobilities. During the previous academic years the number of incoming students exceeded the number of outgoing ones which, during 2014/2015, increased by 100%. The number of incoming students have decreased because for different reasons they decided to renounce to their study place. Also the number of outgoing students has increased by 33,3% compared with the last academic year. As far as the staff training mobility, no significant variation is to be mentioned except that for the first time, an administrative assistant could take part in the mobility action. As far as the profile of the participants is concerned, we have to distinguish between teachers and students. More active and interested in the Erasmus+ Program teachers are those belonging to the Classical courses while outgoing students mostly come from the Department of New musical Technologies and New musical languages. All our students took part in a mobility for studies so went abroad to attend courses and take exams while the main activity for teachers was the Master Class related to their instrument and musicology Seminars. Some of them have also given a concert at the Hosting Institution. One of the most important results of this experience is a wider open-mindedness on students' curricula and study plan, which is demonstrated from a great flexibility in the recognition of students' results obtained abroad and indicated in the final document. Moreover many of our professors have enlarged their educational offer using new research materials and new contents in their educational offer. The participation in the Erasmus+ Project is strongly encouraged by our institution because it's a the most relevant part of its strategy for internationalization which brings to a reinforcement of the relations with foreign institutions which can lead to new interesting collaborations in the field of Music.
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