Our projects

See all our research projects as well as development and international co-operation projects.

Search results: 23

Project name	Project time	Funder
ArsADAPT – Artists for a sustainable future ArsADAPT creates new approaches to music studies and musician's work by integrating the sustainable future agenda and related research into artistic work.	09/2022-05/2023	The Strategic Research Council (SRC), ADAPT research programme (2018-2023) Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Artwork – a better future for all through creativity ARTWORK aims to expand the field of work for artists and raise increased awareness of the use of artistic methods for strengthening education and social initiatives.	01/2022-06/2023	Erasmus+ programme
Caring for musically gifted children This project explores how the politics of care in elite higher music institutions and certain educational “cults” could better support the education of children for music. The project seeks to support children gifted for music internationally, so that they can live as agentic and healthy individuals while pursuing desirable educational outcomes in caring ecosystems.	09/2022-08/2027	The Academy of Finland (Ref. 348591)
Curriculum as a policy instrument for educational (e)quality of music education in Finland Research project (2018-) directed by Marja-Leena Juntunen examines issues related to the implementation of the music core curricula in Basic Education and Basic Education in the Arts.	01/2018	The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Svensk-Österbottniska samfundet & The Finnish Cultural Foundation
Embodied Language Learning through the Arts (ELLA) ELLA is a research project (2021-2024) funded by Kone foundation which investigates how embodied language learning through the arts may generate substantial change within communities.	01/2021-12/2024	Kone Foundation
Equity in Composing The Equity in Composing project (2019-) aims to reduce gender-based occupational segregation and to advance equal opportunities for participation in the field.	01/2019-11/2020	Wegeliuksen muistosäätiö, Musiikin edistämissäätiö (MES) & Suomen Säveltäjät ry
Expanding Reflexivity of Professional Education in Music in Times of Crises The multidisciplinary and multi-methods research addresses the dramatic effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire classical music industry and educational field.	01/2022-12/2022	Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Fast45 FAST45 investigates alternative futures for institutions of higher arts education in Europe.	01/2021-12/2023	Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Future Songwriting The research project by Heidi Partti creates an international network of music teacher educators and a hybrid space for reflection and planning.	01/2018-12/2020	Creative Europe programme of the European Union
FUTURED: Music teacher education for the future The project's research objectives are to challenge the status quo of music teacher education in Norway, and to develop innovative and collaborative practices that could foster students’ collaborative, critical and democratic capacities.	01/2019-12/2022	Research Council of Norway
Global Visions Through Mobilizing Networks: Co-Developing Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Finland, Israel and Nepal The research project funded by the Academy of Finland (2015 - 2020) creates an international network of music teacher educators and a hybrid space for reflection and planning.	01/2015-12/2020	Academy of Finland
Health, wellbeing and disability narratives in the arts The overarching aim of this inter-cultural academic collaboration is to challenge academic ableism in higher education.	01/2022-12/2024	The project is part of the SAFINET, the Southern African and Finnish Higher Education Institutions’ Network for Health and Wellbeing, within the Culture and Wellbeing sub-area. SAFINET is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Finland.
Kreativ personcentrerad vårdkonst project The project intends to develop, implement and evaluate a creative, person-centered approach as well as enhance cultural and artistic practices in vocational education and geriatric care in order to change the care culture in Swedish Finland in the long term.	09/2021-06/2024	Svenska kulturfonden, Konstsamfundet
Learning in and through the Arts in higher education: Developing shared leadership This project examines learning and teaching environments in the three academies of the University of the Arts Helsinki.	01/2014-12/2021
Music for social impact: practitioners’ contexts, work, and beliefs The research project aims to examine the growing number of participatory music-making activities being offered to marginilized groups.	01/2020-03/2022	The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Britain
Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions (REACT) REACT will mobilise a knowledge-creating international cooperative network to develop a new pedagogical model for higher education institutions and to help musicians meet the challenges of working life.	01/2020-12/2023	Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Subtle Corporealities: Propositions of Resistance for Creative Practitioners Research project (2020-2022) by Susanna Hast and Maryam Bagheri Nesami develops artistic proposals for resistance and reparation of damage while testing the boundaries of self expression without overt exposure.	01/2020-12/2022	Kone Foundation
Systems Analysis and the Lyon Model of Music Education The project examines music education practices in Lyon model and Finnish research on institutional social innovations and systems analysis.
The Arts & Health Collective: Creative Solutions for Complex Challenges The Arts & Health Collective, by WHO and partner organisations, stimulates interdisciplinary dialogue to identify best practices in and disseminate actionable policy advice on the implementation of arts and health interventions that are socially nuanced, culturally sensitive, and people-centred.	04/2021-04/2022	The Nordic Culture Fund together with co-funding from all partners
The Arts as Public Service: Strategic Steps towards Equality (ArtsEqual) The research initiative funded by the Academy of Finland's Strategic Research Council (2015 - 2021) explores how the arts can meet the social challenges of the 2020s.	05/2015-04/2021	Academy of Finland’s Strategic Research Council.
The Observatory for Arts and Cultural Education, Finland The project seeks to reinforce the equal accessibility and effectiveness of arts and cultural education and to improve the social status and appreciation of the field.	01/2017
The Transformative Politics of Music Education in an Aging Society This research project (2019-2022) by Tuulikki Laes explores music learning and performing as ways of promoting ageing identities.	09/2021-08/2022	Academy of Finland
Transforming Musicianship – Musicians’ Learner Identity The research project led by Dr. Guadalupe López-Íñiguez aims at renewing learning and performance practices in classical music.	01/2018-12/2021	Academy of Finland