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    Adelfia: where science meets musical training for inclusion – despite Covid-19

    In Adelfia (Italy), URBACT OnStage has brought together science and music pedagogy through a pioneering research project that has served to engage children with autism and ADHD in the exciting

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    Grigny: music despite the pandemic

    2020 has not been the best year for the Grigny Conservatory. However, thanks to the motivation of teachers and volunteers, music remains as alive as ever and continues to make hundreds of children

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    Katowice: a promising and happy ending to continue improving the world through music

    Percussion and trumpet workshops for kids and adults, intergenerational improvistation sessions for everyone and a happy ending so that the city can keep enjoying young local orchestras: this is how

  • Valongo and the URBACT OnStage project: a participatory process from start to finish

    From the beginning of the URBACT OnStage project, the Portuguese city of Valongo invested heavily in a participatory process aimed at co-creating the methodologies and strategy to put musical and

  • What Brno has learnt with the OnStage project – until now

    Brno's participation in the URBACT OnStage network has been one of the first Czech experiences in using music education programs to promote social change. Two city schools now offer - even in the days

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    Grigny: keeping the link, continuing to teach music and inventing the next day

    A Zicadanse in lockdown, a sudden adaptation of the teaching methods to the times of Covid-19 and a lot of enthusiasm and volunteering spirit: here is Grigny's latest update on how the URBACT OnStage

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    L'Hospitalet's EMMCA keeps up and running from home

    Since March, the Music School and Arts Centre of L’Hospitalet, EMMCA, has its doors closed and nobody inside. However, EMMCA is a big educational and artistic community that kept working, playing

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    In Adelfia, music does not turn off

    In Adelfia, the coronavirus has not stopped MusicaInGioco's work for social inclusion: almost 70% of children involved in the three orchestras of the association followed online music lessons during

  • Valongo: a journey of discovery – almost from scratch

    In this extraordinary pandemic times, Valongo is taking its time to analyze how the project has contributed to improving the city and the lives of young people. And how to move forward.