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Higher education student and staff mobility projec..
Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
All mobility activities were successfully implemented, total 80 outgoing mobility participants include 37 STA, 11 STT, 28 SMS and 4 SMP, and 69 incoming participants, i.e. 45 STA, 10 STT, 13 SMS and 1 SMP, and achieved balance between outgoing and incoming is good. The major goal of the mobility project was to improve students' performance (prioritized activity), increase overall degree of internationalization at the Academy, and contribute to the achievement of mobility targets by 2020 so that 20% of graduates would have accumulated international credits (not less than 15 ECTS during the degree studies).
As a result of continuous and strategic Erasmus+ teachers exchanges with the Edge Hill University (the UK), art therapy studies are being developed. The first in Lithuania study programme on masters' level in Music Therapy (joint study programme with Vilnius University) was launched from a.y. 2015-2016, and two more specializations in Dance Therapy and Theatre Therapy are under recent development. With a support of colleagues from a number of partner institutions, Conservatorio Statale di Musica Guido Cantelli di Novara, Conservatorio di Music Alfredo Casella, L'Aquila among them, newly developed curriculum in Early Music specialization in Music Performance has been tested by LMTA students and teachers, and improved. New Early Music specialization (MA level) should be launched by the Academy from a.y. 2016-2017.
Academy developed strategic contacts for further cooperation in Erasmus strategic partnerships and European networks, and result is LMTA partnership in two strategic networks in music: METRIX (for improvised music), and ECMA NEXT STEP (ECMA - European Chamber Music Academy). Closer cooperation with strategic partners will possibly lead to cooperation in more Erasmus + strategic partnership projects, directly linked to the modernization of higher art education: exploring and opening up virtual and blended mobility opportunities and creating open platforms for music education, and extending entrepreneurial mindsets by developing and embedding teaching and learning of artistic entrepreneurship in the performing arts curriculum.
LMTA has improved its visibility and international reputation by investing into promotional materials and by active cooperation with European higher art education Associations, such as AEC, ECMA, ANMA, EDE and by sharing expertise in working groups: AEC IRCs developmental working group, AEC working group on Artistic Research. Because of active participation in mobility activities, strategic partnerships, and working groups, LMTA is known as higher arts education institutions with good international reputation and high standards of performance, and this reputation opens-up further cooperation possibilities.