UMSIC
Usability of Music for Social Inclusion of Children
| Coordinatore | OULUN YLIOPISTO
Organization address
address: Maunonkatu 2 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Finland [FI] |
| Totale costo | 2˙833˙773 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙130˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2007-2 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-09-01 - 2011-08-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OULUN YLIOPISTO
Organization address
address: Maunonkatu 2 contact info |
FI (Oulu) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Organization address
address: 20 BEDFORD WAY contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO
Organization address
address: SEMINAARINKATU contact info |
FI (JYVASKYLA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
LAPPEENRANNAN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO
Organization address
address: Skinnarilankatu contact info |
FI (LAPPEENRANTA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
NOKIA OYJ
Organization address
address: KEILALAHDENTIE 4 contact info |
FI (ESPOO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
SYSTEMA TEKNOLOTZIS ANONYMI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON ILEKTRONIKIS KAI PLIROFORIKIS
Organization address
address: MESOGION AV. 215 contact info |
EL (ATHINA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH
Organization address
address: Raemistrasse contact info |
CH (ZURICH) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE
Organization address
address: - contact info |
UK (PRESTON) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
The aim of this multidisciplinary and trans-national SandT project is to develop and use up-to-date technology in a coordinated, intelligent and accessible way to support social inclusion. Whilst intended for all children, UMSIC aims to particularly support, through music, those children who are at increased risk of being marginalized. These include children with social or emotional disorders (or both), those with moderate learning disabilities, and those who are immigrant with no or limited host country language skills. From their first school year, such children are at risk of less than optimal functioning in many areas related to school success unless their needs are recognised and addressed. Low academic achievement, in turn, is one of the most significant individual risk factors of marginalization. Furthermore, there is a growing body of neurological and related research evidence that the promotion of early competences in music and language are interwoven and can affect positively children's emotional, social, and intellectual development. nAlthough ICT applications for special educational purposes have been increasingly developed, any serious attempts to design ICT-based, user sensitive learning environments for musical creativity and social sharing of music do not yet exist. Consequently, in the proposed UMSIC project, the system is developed to open interactive environments for children to communicate informally with their peers by using familiar modern technologies. With a special impact on child-centered usability, intelligent musical engineering and carefully developed pedagogical design allied to structured learning material, the system allows children both stand-alone as well as networked operations with easy start up and impressive extensibility. Children will draw benefit from the targeted learning material in multiple ways by learning independently the usage of musical software required to enter musical online communities.