UMSIC

Usability of Music for Social Inclusion of Children

Coordinatore	OULUN YLIOPISTO    more  Organization address address: Maunonkatu 2 city: Oulu postcode: 90100 contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Arto Cognome: Eljander Email: send email Telefono: + 358 8 553 4133 Fax: +358 8 553 4170
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	OULUN YLIOPISTO  Organization address address: Maunonkatu 2 city: Oulu postcode: 90100 contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Arto Cognome: Eljander Email: send email Telefono: + 358 8 553 4133 Fax: +358 8 553 4170	FI (Oulu)	coordinator	0.00
2	INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON  Organization address address: 20 BEDFORD WAY city: LONDON postcode: WC1H 0AL contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Graham Cognome: Welch Email: send email Telefono: 442076000000 Fax: + 44 207 612 67	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00
3	JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO  Organization address address: SEMINAARINKATU city: JYVASKYLA postcode: 40100 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Pirkko Cognome: Paananen Email: send email Telefono: 358 14 2601336 Fax: 358 14 2601331	FI (JYVASKYLA)	participant	0.00
4	LAPPEENRANNAN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO  Organization address address: Skinnarilankatu city: LAPPEENRANTA postcode: 53850 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Jari Cognome: PORRAS Email: send email Telefono: 35856212803 Fax: 35856212899	FI (LAPPEENRANTA)	participant	0.00
5	NOKIA OYJ  Organization address address: KEILALAHDENTIE 4 city: ESPOO postcode: 2150 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Aarne Cognome: Taube Email: send email Telefono: -+358 8 07180 0 Fax: -+358 8 07180 5	FI (ESPOO)	participant	0.00
6	SYSTEMA TEKNOLOTZIS ANONYMI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON ILEKTRONIKIS KAI PLIROFORIKIS  Organization address address: MESOGION AV. 215 city: ATHINA postcode: 11525 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Costas Cognome: Davarakis Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 6743243 Fax: +30 210 6755649	EL (ATHINA)	participant	0.00
7	UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH  Organization address address: Raemistrasse city: ZURICH postcode: 8006 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Stefanie Cognome: Stadler Elmer Email: send email Telefono: +41 (0)61 923 1 Fax: +41 (0)44 635 7	CH (ZURICH)	participant	0.00
8	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE  Organization address address: - city: PRESTON postcode: PR1 2HE contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Peter Cognome: Hyett Email: send email Telefono: + 44 1772 89216 Fax: + 44 1772 89295	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.