Dance can be a challenging and rewarding activity, and a viable career for people with disabilities, yet they face several barriers to participation and training. Disabled people wishing to access dance face several obstacles including aesthetic, training-related, logistic, and access barriers, as well as a lack of knowledge or available information about career opportunities. The aim of our project is to review the practice around barriers to dance training for disabled people and to put forward practical recommendations for overcoming these challenges by proposing a framework for talent development and training.“i-Dance” is intended to produce innovative approaches for addressing people with and without disabilities and the dance community, by providing more attractive education and training programmes, in line with individual needs and expectations. The partnership will support the development of new pedagogical approaches and particular e-learning tools and open educational resources which will be supported from an on-line collaborative platform where adults/amateur dancers, professional dancers and teachers with and without disabilities will be able to learn, teach and evaluate the expected learning outcomes. All partners will work together to propose inclusive training programmes and methodologies and exchange of learning experiences in order to encourage contemporary dance participation at a range of levels and support people with and without disabilities throughout their dance journeys. The project will build progression routes, increase the visibility of integrated dance, signpost adults to activities and provide enrichment opportunities such as shadowing and mentoring. The aim of the i-Dance project is to exchange good practices in adult education for inclusive dance and develop and disseminate four innovative intellectual outputs:1. A Comparative analysis of existing tools and conditions for development of competencies for inclusive dance teachers, amateurs and professional dancers in partners’ countries dedicated to themes of access and dance training and the physical and intellectual barriers in this.2. Open Educational Resources for Inclusive Dance Training and Inclusive Choreography Training raising awareness of requests of dance teachers, amateurs and professional dancers with or without disabilities3. Digital content Create a set of virtual dance classes and online video sources which will further develop the exchange of ideas internationally, as well as progress in the field and broader audiences throughout the world. The objectives are to give adult educators, and therefore adult-learners, access to a proven methodology, which is grounded in experience provided only in few inclusive dance companies. The results will increase capacities of adult educators to develop inclusive dance training programmes for disabled adults and the actual support of professional dancers with and without disabilities by offering them international coaching opportunities and a platform to acquire new skills.The Strategic Partnership will include transnational meetings of partners to exchange practices and design the project, as well as carry out training, teaching and learning activities which will bring added value in the achievement of the project objectives. The project will provide significantly new learning opportunities, skills development, access to information and to state-of-the-art research results and other pedagogical materials for the participating adults and teachers of inclusive dance courses. “i-Dance” project will support a training-based collaboration between cultural organisations, professional dance schools, dance companies, conservatoires, academics, NGOs, access workers, artists and adults with our without disabilities to develop test and implement innovative course packages enriching inclusive dance participation as well as adult educators competiveness based on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on:i) people with and without disabilities, with and without a prior engagement in danceii) dance teachers, choreographers and emerging professional dancers with and without disabilitiesWe believe the challenges faced by disabled adults who would like to get involved with the arts and pursue a dance career, in particular geographic and cultural isolation as well as luck of professional development opportunities can only be solved through transnational cooperation. We believe that by sharing our learning and other European best practice widely, and by sharing detailed professional development toolkits and information, we can have a profound impact on European cultural institutions and their engagement with disabled people.Partners: Onassis Cultural Centre (ARIONA HELLAS SA) – GreeceStopGap Dance Company – UKHolland Dance Festival – NetherlandsSkanes Dansteater – Sweden