EOALAB

About

European Opera Academy - Competence centre for Shared Education in Opera Training

This Project finds its overall framework in the European Opera Academy (EOA), a cross-border collaborative initiative launched by Conservatorium Maastricht in 2016 which includes 14 Academies of Music (HEI) in Europe.

Based on the innovative concept of shared education, the vision of this project is to trigger innovation in the opera field in Europe and beyond. EOALAB aims to reinforce the link between education, training and labour market through innovative student-centred teaching and learning approaches, by strengthening cross-border collaboration and exchange of best practices to make opera training laboratories for artistic experimentation and employability both for students and young professionals.

WHAT

EOALAB is the Erasmus+ SP project that aims to trigger innovation in the field of opera based on the innovative concept of shared education.

This SP will act as a think tank of the European Opera Academy to jointly elaborate, test and further develop innovative approaches in opera education and training to be disseminated to and exploited by other EOA members as well as other High Education Institutions and associated institutions.

WHY

EOALAB strives to contribute to creating the new generation of opera makers by reinforcing the link between education, training and labour market. This project intends to offer new answers to the emerging needs of contemporary opera making.

WHO

The core partnership is made up of 8 partners from 7 European countries:

AEC (Association Europeene des Conservatoires), Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen (BE), Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito, Parma (IT), Instituto Politecnico do Porto – ESMAE (PT), Jazepa Vitola Latvijas Muzikas akademija, Riga (LV), Lietuvos Muzikos ir teatro akademija, Vilnius (LT), Stockholm University for the Arts, Stockholm (SE)

WHEN

The project runs over the course of 33 months, from Jan 1, 2019 to August 31, 2021.
EOALAB entails several key events of teaching, training, workshops and conferences; as well as presentations and performances. The first of these is the "Preview Festival" in Maastricht from June 28 until July 2nd 2019.

Our Partners

Zuyd University of Applied Sciences is an institution of higher education with ca. 1650 employees and 14000 students. Zuyd aims at research, development and transfer of high-quality and practically-oriented knowledge and skills, for the development of tomorrow’s professionals...

AEC is a European cultural and educational network that represents institutions concerned with high level training for the music profession. AEC was funded in 1953 and, now in it’s 7th decade of operation, has nearly 300 member institutions in 57 countries. Its memberships include...

The Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp educates some 600 arts students, approximately a quarter of whom come from abroad. They offer programmes in dance, drama and music, concurrent teacher training programs and a variety of courses for further study...

Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito of Parma is a pivotal centre dedicated to providing artistic training, educations, specialisation, research and production at the highest level in the field of music...

Porto’s Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), belonging to the Porto’s Polytechnic Institute emerged in 1994, after the extension of the Superior School of Music, with the intention to widen its offer of graduate courses to other artistic areas beyond music...

Jazepa Vitola Latvijas Muzikas akademija – JVLMA

Jazepa Vitola Latvijas Muzikas akademija is the only university-type education establishment in Latvia providing higher musical education in performing arts, composition, musicology, music education and choreography, as well as carrying out research...

Lietuvos Muzikos ir Teatro Akademija-LMTA

The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) is an internationally recognised HEU, with trains artists for a professional career in music, theatre, dance and film. Specialising in art education, LMTA offers didactics of music disciplines, art management...

Stockholm University of the Arts (UNIARTS) was inaugurated on January 1, 2014 when School of Dance and Circus (DOCH), the University College of Opera (UCO) and Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (SADA) merged in order to create a leading international research milieu...