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Mind-moving is a project which stems from the project team’s direct, personal and professional experience of contact with psychiatric patients. This has given the team the opportunity to identify the following needs of the target group: on the one hand, the need to have access to cultural products and to participative cultural-therapeutic activities and, on the other hand, the need that the general public respects and does not stigmatize the target group, but rather gains awareness and understanding of the latter’s pathologies. As concerns the national choreographic sector, it needs solid contexts to research, produce and represent its productions, as proposed by this project which takes into consideration both a extended research process connected to social reality, and enough resources for creating a worthful product, in accordance to the norms of the present. The general objective of the project is to promote music and dance as means to reduce disparities between the general public and persons with psychiatric diagnoses. This is put into action through three specific objectives: 1) Creating a bridge of communication based on empathy between psychiatric patients and artists, by showcasing 2 music and dance performances / films; 2) Promoting expressive creative means of improving mental health by facilitating creative-expressive workshops by artists and therapists; 3) Consolidating the choreographic production framework based on interdisciplinary research by creating and presenting a durational performative exhibition to be visited by at least 600 persons, in Romania and in Norway. Bilateral relations shall be consolidated by the intensive involvement of the Norwegian partner (NOPA) both in creating and presenting the performative exhibition (musical background) and in identifying and organizing the Norwegian edition of the exhibition (management). The artists and managers shall have the opportunity to work together, exchange experience and best practices.