The Research Group on Musical Creativity at the Federal University of Rio Grande was established in November 2017 with the aim of understanding the complexity of the phenomena involved in both the development and inhibition of musical creativity.

Through a transdisciplinary team, it seeks to gain a more holistic view of this subject, involving the study of music in its educational, psychological, cultural, and social aspects.

Under the research line titled Musical Arts - Creative Processes and Subjectivity, the group seeks to understand the relationships of the creative act within human subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

In the research line Musical Creativity in Society, Culture, and History, the group is dedicated to studying the external aspects and their impacts on musical creativity. In this line, the aim is to understand the place of society, culture, and history (in both its macro and micro contexts) in the potentials and barriers to human creativity, especially in musical artistic endeavors.

As a result of both of these research lines, the ongoing educational project entitled Freedom as a Trigger for Creative Development aims to investigate the conditions and processes associated with creative freedom in music and their effects on learning, creative development, and artistic expressiveness. From this project, a music workshop titled Creative Freedom has been developed, which proposes a series of methods that enable the identification and implementation of actions to address issues related to creative inhibition in music.