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The UTFORSK Resonating Rights project is an educational initiative designed to foster new dialogues across ethnomusicology, music therapy, music performance, music education, and human rights studies. By developing community‑centered curricula and short‑term courses, the project aims to promote the internationalization of students within these disciplines. It is funded with NOK 3 million by HK‑dir, the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills.

Through bilateral collaboration between Norwegian and Brazilian universities,
we seek to enhance music studies and human rights education. Our aim is to develop more
participatory and socially relevant courses in music studies with a shared emphasis on how
music can foster diversity, give voice and help fight social exclusion and advance human rights.
Our project will devise a model for implementing inclusive practices in arts education and the
social sciences.

With the goal of fortifying our international partnership, we anticipate that Resonating Rights
will lead to increased collaboration between our institutions and the creation of a promising
exchange model for reciprocal student mobility. The project will be a key component in
delivering truly interdisciplinary hands-on course materials that could potentially be integrated
into several other disciplines, targeting arts education in general, as well as the social sciences
and humanities through its shared emphasis on voice, social inclusion and cultural diversity.

The project will be executed in three stages: 1) mutual academic staff mobility, contributing to
the development of a durable partnership and exchange of educational experiences through
workshop teaching, 2) a reciprocal blended learning intensive workshop model, facilitating
small interdisciplinary student projects between Norwegian and Brazilian students and offering
internationalization at home opportunities, and 3) a new course curriculum that will be tested
and co-developed through the project, and that can easily be integrated into the study program
structure at the participating institutions. In all stages, online learning platforms will facilitate
teamwork, knowledge exchange, and curriculum development.

By drawing on insights from the broader interdisciplinary field of Human Rights, and its
close link to the UN’s sustainability goals, we hope that we can develop more inclusive and
participatory music courses in all fields modelled on diversity. We also believe that increased
collaboration between these fields of music study, and the interdisciplinary field of human rights research, will improve research and teaching in the wider field of music.

We anticipate the project to also serve as a cornerstone for future research collaborations
between our institutions, as the partnership constellation is rooted in mutual research interests
and individual collaboration among researchers. Lastly, Resonating Rights will offer crucial
internationalization perspectives from outside the EEA to our institutions, particularly since arts
education has lacked international perspectives since the introduction of study fees in Norway in 2023.