On Wednesday, 21 January, the initial coordination meeting of the new European project Other spaces took place online.
The project “Other spaces. Encounters between artists, students and teachers for sustainable futures” is co-funded under the Erasmus+ programme (Ref. 2025-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000356883) and coordinated by professors Gemma París Romia and Sílvia Blanch Gelabert.
The project promotes innovative and inclusive education by integrating artistic practices into teacher training through a co-teaching model with resident artists. Its aim is to create a transnational network involving at least 20 educators, cultural institutions, artists, and researchers in the co-creation of intercultural learning experiences that foster educational inclusion. The main pillars include STEAM approaches, active and experiential methodologies, and support for diverse and vulnerable educational contexts.
The project also seeks to strengthen cultural and educational development through activities such as implementing artist-in-residence programmes at universities, engaging more than 200 students in arts-based practical learning, and creating collaborative spaces between educational and cultural institutions. These collaborations will take shape through partner workshops, co-creation labs, interdisciplinary courses, digital resources, and visits to schools in vulnerable communities.
In addition, an open-access digital platform, innovative university models, a database of best practices, and guidelines for interdisciplinary teaching will be developed. The project will strengthen alliances between universities and communities, generating significant impact on students, faculty, artists, cultural institutions, communities and organisations. Dissemination will include events, webinars, policy recommendations, social media actions, and the creation of a European network for ongoing knowledge exchange and scalability.
This first meeting of the project partners served to establish the general working guidelines, adjust the timeline, and agree on key aspects related to daily management. Representatives from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), the Antoni Tàpies Museum (Spain), LaSala (Spain), Háskóli Íslands (Iceland), and the Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara (Romania) took part in the meeting.
More information about the project here.
