New Employability Within Self-leadership in Music Academic Programs Erasmus Project

Project Title

New Employability Within Self-leadership in Music Academic Programs

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The path from the music studies to the career is an interesting and amazing journey but, so often, it’s also very tough. We know that every journey needs a map and we want to propose a new map that has a fundamental step: the self-leadership for a new employability.
With NEWS in MAP project we are implementing the music academic curricula.
The context for this project lies in the discrepancy between the skill sets required by the greater music career and the traditional education available at music departments of European Conservatories and Music departments of European Universities.
The traditional education of these Institutions does not offer basic skill sets such as psychology, leadership, motivational strategies to increase performing, team building, business establishment, marketing, tournée/event design which are amongst the most important facets of new music careers. It is precisely these elements that are most often pre-requisite to the enhancement of employability in the greater music career.
The objectives of the NEWS in MAP project are therefore directly derived from this present circumstance and are the following:
1) To impart to students of set fields the basic skill sets mentioned above,
2) The transformation of this knowledge into real world applications,
3) The consciousness of women students potential in the music careers,
3) The employment of students in small apprenticeships within the frame work of the project,
4) The placement of students in real work situation through post project termination placement in existing music event (festivals, museums, small business, summer schools) internships,
5) The development of practical abilities to allow the students to become, through self -leadership, self employed and to travel the path of entrepreneurship.
Our methodology consists of the creation and implementation of a 14 week course and curricula that addresses all the above mentioned skill sets. Besides this, the theoretical portion of the course, the small apprenticeships in various subjects will supplement as the applied portion of the course. The synthesis of these two facets, the theoretical and the applied, will result in the real world experience of the internship.
The expected results and impact of NEWS in MAP are multiple. We envision the following:
1) A higher rate of employment of musicians in the work force,
2) A higher rate of self employment in the fields of music,
3) The development of women’s participation at the top of the music careers,
4) The creation of a novel course and curricula,
5) An increase of desirability for the Conservatories and Universities that adopt this project course,
6) The expansion and development of teachers careers,
7) The collection and publication of project course materials and its free dissemination,
8) The involvement of industry as an influence on and benefactor of this project,
9) The involvement of a media complex ( internet, newspapers, magazines, visual and audio) in the implementation and dissemination of the project.
The aforementioned expectations, in addition to representing realistic objectives, also act as long-term benefits.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 414521 Eur

Project Coordinator

CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA “SANTA CECILIA” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• YASAR UNIVERSITESI
• EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS
• Royal Irish Academy of Music
• Association Europeenne des Conservatoires, Academies de Musique et Musikhochschulen