INTER-NATIONAL net_works+ Erasmus Project

Project Title

INTER-NATIONAL net_works+

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Creativity and culture; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

INTER-NATIONAL net_works+ was a training and networking project for youth workers, educators and organisers of youth music competitions across Europe. Based on the evaluation during a pilot project in 2014, the main objective was to facilitate exchange and create sustainable cooperation between participants to find creative and innovative solutions to the new challenges facing youth workers and organisers of youth activities in the cultural field in order to improve the quality of support systems for youth on a local, national and European level.

The activities of this participatory project employed non-formal education methods to enhance intercultural learning and provided participants with practical knowledge and transferable skills that they can use on a national and local level to improve the current and future possibilities for young people from a range of educational, social and cultural backgrounds.

There were nine project partners, including music schools, federations, foundations, teacher associations, and music competitions, from Germany, Lithuania, Luxembourg, FYR Macedonia, Norway, Slovakia and Spain. A total of 46 persons were directly involved, including nine experts and five young musicians.

Activities included:

– the kick-off conference in Weimar (D) (November 20-22, 2015) that brought together 30 partners and interested participants in youth work on the European and international level from 14 countries and permitted the sharing of best practices; the partner Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar shared their recent innovative initiatives. Workshops included: – Audience development at and by international youth music competitions to reach young (and non-) audiences; – Sponsoring at international competitions; – Volunteers and their roles at international competitions; – Visibility of international youth music competitions, their cooperation with (international) media and audience development at and by international youth music competitions.

– a conference in Vilnius (LT) (October 14-16, 2016) that brought together 30 partners and interested participants in youth work on the national, European and international level from 14 countries and permitted the sharing of best practices. Building on the discussions and results developed in Weimar the conference was a platform to further develop techniques by participants to integrate into their pedagogical competences to provide high quality support to youth, workshops and discussions focused on audience building, particularly supporting young musicians to build their audiences, and integrating new media and developing digital competences of youth workers to better support young people. Workshops included: – Communicate! How to build an audience from the point of view of an artist; – Audience Building, Cross Sectoral Work; – Communicate! How to build an audience from the point of view of an artist; – Digital competences.

– a conference in Malaga (ES) (November 23-26, 2017) that brought together 22 partners and interested participants in youth work on the national level from 8 countries and permitted the sharing of best practices. Workshops included: – Musical repertoire at competition, an exchange of best practices by all participants present; – Future lab: Making competitions fit for the future, a round table discussion to discuss the challenges and develop solutions to ensure the sustainability of the support that music competitions give to young musicians;

– the final conference in Luxembourg (L) (June 29-1 July, 2018), an initiative under the patronage of Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, that brought together 43 participants, experts, guests and young musicians from 18 countries. Workshops included: – the presentation of the results of the INTER-NATIONAL net_works+ project, looking at the past topics and discussions and developing ideas for new innovative projects; – Exchange of best practices, through informal brainstorming for possible further cooperation; – Data Protection at Music Competitions; – Audience development.

These conferences were integral activities in the project, promoting the exchange of best practices between partners, musicians and other youth workers in the cultural field as well as developing sustainable cooperation and collaborations for the further promotion of young European musicians. The topics developed by experts, namely audience development, digitalization, communication, and overcoming challenges were key in the promotion of quality support systems for young European musicians. There were presentations on EU Financing on opportunities for cultural associations: Erasmus + and Creative Europe.

– 4 coordination meetings.

The exchanges and workshops of the conferences were documented and sent to the whole EMCY network, indirectly impacting the quality of support for over 30,000 young people annually. It is also made available for interested youth workers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129450 Eur

Project Coordinator

ECOLE DE MUSIQUE DE L’UNION GRAND-DUC ADOLPHE & Country: LU

Project Partners

• Musikkpedagogene Norge
• BALIO DVARIONO LABDAROS IR PARAMOS FONDAS
• Hochschule fuer Musik Franz Liszt Weimar
• Association of Music Teachers of Slovakia – section EMCY Slovakia
• CONFEDERACION JUVENTUDES MUSICALES DE ESPANA
• EUROPAISCHE UNION DER MUSIKWETTBEWERBE FUR DIE JUGEND – EUROPEAN UNIONOF MUSIC COMPETITIONS FOR YOUTH – EMCY – EV
• VIESOJI ISTAIGA NATU KNYGYNAS