Educational Music Tools To Promote Human Rights Among Young People Erasmus Project

Project Title

Educational Music Tools To Promote Human Rights Among Young People

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law); Creativity and culture; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The project consortium, consisting of 5 partners from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Italy, Portugal and Germany, has been working together successfully for 6 years in the context of human rights education and musical education. With this project we would like to respond to needs that we have noticed as organizations, in our countries but also in Europe. These needs are the result of observations, but also of scientific and political contributions, which show that some of the goals set by the UN and the EU in the field of human rights have not been achieved or respected. In addition, we, like many others, stress the enormous importance of human rights education. We combine this with music for various reasons. The background music reinforces and emotionalizes messages from texts. Music addresses cognitive areas that lie fallow in purely theoretical treatment and thus we strengthen the cognitive aspect.
On this basis, at the project, we will create two intellectual outputs (IO), which differ mainly in the target group. We will design songs, which will then be analysed and discussed using the method sheets we developed to match the songs. Each of the IOs will contain a music album with 10 songs and a collection of methods, which includes a specially developed method for each song. In addition, there is an overall plan for a project week.
If the methods are applied well, the participants of the workshops will not only achieve an increase in knowledge about human rights and an improved expression of basic values. Rather, we will also increase media literacy, support the development of critical thinking, stimulate active citizenship and teach artistic expression.
This increases the quality of our work with adolescent and young adults: in our project we provide youth workers with a tool that enables them to work with young people on human rights topic in an exemplary way. However, we do not only benefit from this as a consortium partner, but also disseminate the results of the IOs among youth workers in our countries and other EU countries. This happens both within this project and in the 5 multiplier events in which at least 250 youth workers, students, teachers and responsible persons participate. In addition, we will implement at least one International Training, in which other countries than those represented in this project will participate and offer national training for youth workers. This is important to us because it will increase the quality of the workshops based on our work. It also increases the use of the results. Further trainings on national level will be held after finalizing the project by each partner, which teaches at least 250 youth workers more in use and evaluation of the methods.
In this way, we provide sustainable and long-term support to youth workers in achieving their goals in terms of human rights education, media literacy, critical thinking, active citizenship and, in some cases, creative expression. We also support the efforts of governments and European bodies to promote human rights and active citizenship. For a population that is aware of its responsibility, questions its own actions and those of society and reacts accordingly, will be positively and actively committed to these issues, whether through artistic means or through concrete action.
To achieve these goals we work with a broad team, to which each partner contributes at least 3 members. In this way we achieve a wide range of competence and expertise, from anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, social workers, music teachers and educators to musicians. In a total of 5 project meetings and at least 24 online meetings will take place between September 2020 and August 2022.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136768 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNTERNEHMERGESELLSCHAFT HAFTUNGSBESCHRANKT ROTER BAUM BERLIN & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Narandzasti
• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE COMALA
• ZDRAVO DA STE UDRUZENJA GRADJANA
• FARRA FANFARRA ASSOCIACAO CULTURAL