Music Pedagogy Progress & Play! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Music Pedagogy Progress & Play!

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Pedagogy and didactics; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

In the recent context of the evolution and increasing complexity of the contemporary music sector, the constraints linked to the professionalization of musicians have been largely neglected by the institutions that train them. Music teaching has generally remained focused on the instrumental practice of the musician alone. In contemporary music, the musician plays in a group, and this group is one of the spaces in which he or she is professionally fulfilled. However, in spite of a high artistic quality, the project of a group can fail for lack of having understood and integrated the economic, commercial and managerial ecosystem in which it evolves.
The result is often chaotic, irregular and precarious career paths, which can generate a great deal of suffering at work. The sometimes significant gap between the desire to live from one’s passion for music and the professional reality then generates a significant exposure to psycho-social risks.
In this project, we develop the ambition and the proposal of a pedagogical, theoretical and practical framework, which allows all the supervisors of the musicians’ training, to have a global approach of the group, which must acquire and develop its own competences by relying on the strengths of its “poly-working” members, in a digital environment that can allow it to organize and structure itself while keeping in mind the necessity to live harmoniously from its art without mistreating the artists.

Based on this observation shared transnationally between three educational structures (Belgium, Spain, France), a festival (Italy) and a pole of competence specialized in the creative and cultural industries sector (France), the MP3 project is thus structured around three general objectives:
– To develop and implement a new pedagogical reference system for teachers
– Securing multi-activity to sustain the careers of professional musicians
– Improving the prevention of psycho-social risks in music

In order to increase and capitalize on our knowledge on these subjects, 4 intellectual productions will be used to produce materials for 4 action-training sessions for music groups. These action-training sessions will in fact and above all be training sessions for teachers and professors who will animate, evaluate and validate all the modules.

The MP3 project will thus enable
– An inventory of the psychosocial risks linked to the practice of the profession of musician in Belgium, Spain, Italy and France.
– A survival video guide for musicians to promote the sharing of networks and working together with all the players in the sector.
– A toolbox to find permanent resources on the status of musicians in the four countries, the professional opportunities offered by pluri-activity, the challenges of pedagogical transmission and those of the transition from music to images.
– A European Music Teacher 2.0 reference system
– A global engineering of training of current music groups for training organizations.
Finally, three dissemination events will enable us to disseminate the results of our work at local, national and European levels and to create a dynamic of initiatives around these issues.

Through its open methods and the production of contributory tools, the MP3 project thus aims to bring together on a European scale a community of pedagogues and training structures for professional music groups, actors in the field of contemporary music and prevention in order to highlight the need to better train musicians and to make their professional careers more secure in the long term.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 228806 Eur

Project Coordinator

MUSIC HALLE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Fundació Privada Taller de Músics
• VZW Tritonus
• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE MUSICALE LOCOMOTIVE
• le LABA