A story. In 2010, celebrating the creation of CESEM’s Laboratory of Music and Communication in Childhood at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon, the International Colloquium on Music, Communication and Human Development took place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foudation. Joining professionals with different backgrounds, united by the sharing of ideas about communication and human development through musical and artistic expression, this event boosted the construction of an action philosophy characterized by the adoption of work formulas that merge research, training , artistic creation and community intervention. Subsequently, the Opus Tutti and GermInArte projects (2011-2014 and 2015-2018), carried out in partnership with the Companhia de Música Teatral and supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, provided the opportunity to create annual meetings on the theme of Arts for Childhood and Social and Human Development.

A vision. A meeting that is a space for sharing ideas without borders between academic knowledge and artistic creation, between education and culture. Let’s join the voices of the ones that are passionate about the significance of the arts for education, teacher training and related research. Because, anywhere, Art is essential to Life.

A path. In 2022, we connect the public that is used to being with us at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with partners from Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Denmark under the scopus of the projeto Erasmus+ SenseSquared — Towards an artistic attitude in education and society. We are deeply committed to exploring a central question: how can a sensory approach and an artistic attitude contribute to an education that leads to a more connected and sustainable world?