Music Moving Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Music Moving Youth

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Project Summary

The European music ecosystem is one of the cultural sectors hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis. As musicians and artists from the industry demand solutions, additional measures are needed to help the sector recover in a sustainable way, adapting to new realities and to be more resilient.

Music is an instrument of expression, identity and communication for young people. It is also a tool to promote cultural democratization and full access to culture for everyone. If we believe in inclusion, we must guarantee that all young people have access to culture and have options for creating and disseminating it. Youth need music and music need young people as they can have an active role in the revitalization of the music industry.

Therefore, it is necessary to make use of creativity and propose new initiatives that will allow the music sector and young artists to recover from the great impact suffered after the COVID-19. In this context, Music Moving Youth is born as an opportunity to create various initiatives and actions to exchange good practices and develop new competences that will be built on the basis of transnational cooperation between youth and cultural entities. There are 4 countries involved: Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria and Italy. The partnership is made up of 4 entities that complement each other very well in terms of their aims and the type of activity they carry out, which we hope will have a great impact on achieving the objectives set, which are the following:

– To raise awareness of the impact of COVID-19 on the cultural sector and on the livelihoods of cultural professionals, especially in the music sector.
– To give visibility to musical artists from all over the world, so that their demands are heard in the field of public policy in order to cover the existing needs derived from the health crisis and thus contribute to the development of policies and financial mechanisms to empower and support artists.
– To promote the development of skills by artists that will allow them to create synergies and new strategies to face the cultural crisis derived from the COVI-19.
– Encourage new initiatives that cushion the impact on the music sector and allow for its recovery.
– To create spaces for transnational interaction in which artists can establish the basis for future transnational consortia.
– To disseminate European programmes for cultural promotion and cooperation.
– Involve young people in cultural recovery and in the development of cultural events in their local communities.

To achieve those objectives, we plan to develop transnational activities and local actions:

TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
– Seminar on social entrepreneurship and sustainable culture.
– Training course on European resources for cultural and musical projects (Erasmus +, Creative Europe, Europe for Citizens and CES).

LOCAL ACTIONS
– Analysis of the reality for which surveys and discussion groups with young people and artists will be carried out.
– Structured dialogue at local level with artists in the music sector. As a result of the structured dialogue, a proposals guide will be drawn up and sent to those responsible for cultural and youth policies at local and regional level.
– Local cultural awareness campaigns that will be developed with the youth groups with which the entities involved work.
– Actions to make local artists visible at international level.

Each transnational activity will involve 20 participants, while each local activity in each country will involve at least 8 participants.

TARGET GROUPS
– Musicians and artists from the music sector
– Cultural managers
– Young people between 18 and 30 years old
– Youth, cultural and non-profit organizations, companies and entities
– Other organizations, professionals and persons interested in the projects and its results

METHODOLOGY
Music Moving Youth is based on the methodology of non-formal education, according to the Erasmus+ Youth principles. The cooperation between youth and cultural organizations, as well as the collaboration between artists and young people will be the key for the success of the whole project.

IMPACT AND RESULTS
– A new network of transnational cooperation between youth and cultural entities.
– Young people, artists and musicians with new competences.
– Population more aware of the social and cultural importance of music.
– Greater visibility of local artists at international level.
– Proposals guide for politicians and policymakers.
– Study on the impact on COVID-19 on the music industry.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58745 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asociación Cultural Dayuri & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Surdurulebilir Kalkinma Dernegi
• Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture and Education
• Associazione Rock10eLode