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A 6-week training project provided to teachers and educators at a special school in Oradea, since re-named Centrul Scolar de Educatie Incluziva Nr.1.

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We returned to spend one week with our partners at the Centru de Zi ‘Pentru Voi’ (Timisoara) and at the Centru de Recuperare si Reabilitare (Negru Voda) to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

Co-wrote and presented a paper with one of our Local Partners from Ungureni (Romania) entitled, “A Combination of Expertise: A UK-Romanian Partnership Develops the Use of Music Therapy In Institutions” at the First International Congress of Music Therapy and Recreative Medicine in the 21st Century, Moscow .

Provision of a series of lectures across one week, introducing pyschology undergraduates at the Universitatea de Vest (Timisoara) to the clinical practice of music therapy.

The first conference we convened in Romania, focusing on the use of music with vulnerable children and adults, took place in Calimanesti. Participants comprised members of our Romania Partner Network and Advisory Panel of Music Therapists, all of whom came together to share their work through presentations and workshops over 2 days.

At the request of Fundatia Pentru o Viata Mai Buna, we provided a 6-week training project to staff working with children and young people with complex needs at the Centru de Recuperare si Reabilitare, Negru Voda, near Constanta.

Our second project taking us to Timisoara, we spent 6 weeks providing training for local staff who wanted to use music within their work with adults with disabilities at the Centru de Zi ‘Pentru Voi’, run by the NGO Fundatia Pentru Voi.

We returned to spend one week with our partners at the Asociatia Down Oradea Romania Day Centre ‘Iedera’ (Oradea) and at the Centru de Recuperare si Reabilitare Neuropsihiatrica (Techirghiol) to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

Provision of a series of lectures across one week, introducing pyschology undergraduates at the Universitatea de Vest (Timisoara) to the clinical practice of music therapy.

Our team spent 6 weeks training local staff to incorporate music into the care and activities they provided for residents with learning disabilities and mental illnesses at the Centru de Recuperare si Reabilitare Neuropsihiatrica, Techirghiol, outside Constanta.