The idea of this project arose during the European Prison Education Association’sInternational Conference, organised in conjunction with the PAN European ArtsNetwork, in Dublin, June 2007. Also, many teachers & professional artists involved in“The Will to Dream” project, promoting theatre/video in prison education, have providedfurther potential partners. The management of City College Manchester agreed tocoordinate the project, with the support of its Offender Learning Directorate togetherwith two leading organisations promoting music & dance in UK prison education.The partnership, representing centres from 6 European countries, is a mixture ofcentres experienced in educational provision & professional arts organisations, ideal fordeveloping links between music & dance practitioners and prison teachers. Its mainaims are:• To identify current activities in music & dance in adult prison education across Europe• To create, pilot & disseminate a practical educational model (a multilingual, multimedialearning package) for using music & dance in adult prison education across Europe• To organise practical workshops for exchanges of information & best practice betweencentres experienced in using music & dance in adult prison education and those withlimited experience, including specific training courses• To develop strategies for promoting the use of music & dance in adult prisoneducation, particularly in centres where it not previously been used• To develop an effective framework for employing the rich traditions of European music& dance, through the involvement of professional musicians & dance practitioners inadult prison education• To develop the use of music & dance to explore and analyse personal and groupreactions and relationships in prison education• To explore the benefits of combining music & dance in a prison context• To establish local, regional & national partnerships to support music & dance activitiesin adult prison education• To encourage awareness of cultural diversity within Europe, through the creative useof music & dance in adult prison education.The project is particularly focused on using partners with more experience of music &dance to support those hoping to use these art-forms in a prison education context forthe first time.