List of activities

We facilitated local conference for people interested to share and learn about using music to benefit children and adults with additional needs in and around Techirghiol.

We convened a local area network meeting for our partners to meet and share experiences of using music to benefit people with additional needs in Bihor.

A six-week training project provided to teachers and educators at a special school in Bistrita (since re-named Centrul Scolar de Educatie Incluziva Nr.1) and, in partnership with the Fundatia Inocenti, at the Centru de Recuperare pentru Copii cu Handicap.

In response to local request our team provided introductory training workshops to staff working at the Scoala Speciala and Camin Spital in Beclean.

We returned to spend one week with our partners at the Centru de Plasament ‘Sf. Spiridon’ (Botosani) and at the Complex de Servicii Sociale Comunitare (Beclean) to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year.

Provision of a series of lectures across one week, introducing pyschology undergraduates at the Facultatea de Stiinte, Universitatea “Lucian Blaga” (Sibiu) to the clinical practice of music therapy.

In response to local request we returned to our partners at Centrul de Zi “Sf. Maria” (Cluj) to evaluate their use of music, continued since our original training in 1999, and to provide additional training to strengthen their use of music with children and adults with disabilities.

A 6-week training project provided to local staff caring for children at the Centru de Plasament ‘Sf. Spiridon’, Botosani. It was interesting to meet again some of the children we had met during our pilot project in Ionaseni here, having been transferred to this new setting as part of the nationwide reform of instutions.

A 6-week training project provided to local staff working with children and young people at the Complex de Servicii Sociale Comunitare, Beclean, outside Bistrita.

We returned to spend one week with our partners at Centrul Scolar de Educatie Incluziva Nr.1 (Oradea) and at the Centru Pilot pentru Persoane cu Handicap (Cighid) to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.