Sounds Matches Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sounds Matches

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Disabilities – special needs; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“Sounds Matches” is a 36-month project between three art education establishments (EEA) in France, Sweden and Spain. It is aimed at participants aged 12 to 18 with a minimum of 4 years of instrumental or vocal practice, as well as their teachers. Three types of mobility are planned: they will bring together each time 20 students per host country and 60 students per host country, that is to say 100 students per mobility. 300 students over three years will therefore be involved. Participants will, as far as possible, stay with locals: they will be able to discover another culture (habits, cooking). In addition, the project will benefit these host families who will also be able to discover another culture. Finally, local partners are associated with this project, stakeholders in the fields of early childhood, inclusive education and the reception of people with disabilities in order to allow distant audiences to benefit from the project.

The objectives of “Sound Matches” are as follows:
– On the basis of exchanges of good practices, allow young musicians to exchange sound material and acquire European cultural landmarks.
– Set up workshops based on social diversity and social inclusion on this basis
– Carry out stage productions and publish a visual and sound travel diary in the form of a booklet and mp3 put online.
– Bring the participants to understand European culture and develop their civic consciousness through the discovery of territories and different musical repertoires, as well as the meeting of artists and inhabitants.
– Allow teachers to exchange methodologies (example: mixing acoustic and amplified music), know-how and repertoires, allow them to acquire tools for welcoming people with disabilities.
– Allow people with disabilities and the structures accompanying or welcoming them to access the artistic offer of the territories.
– Allow the inhabitants of these territories to discover, through workshops, concerts and the welcoming of participants, the musical cultures of these three countries.

These objectives will be achieved through the activities listed below:
– Visits to emblematic sites of each country (natural sites, historic districts, art museums) allowing to acquire cultural landmarks and to establish a link between music, arts, landscapes and habits of each country,
– Language workshops (introduction to the languages ​​of the three countries),
– Musical rehearsals, creative MAO, for making sound postcards,
– Music transmission workshops and concerts

Finally, here are the impacts expected:
– New cultural, linguistic, musical, civic and methodological skills
– More openness, curiosity, motivation for the implementation of musical projects, social inclusion, cultural and international exchanges, both by students and teachers but also local partners and residents participating in the project
– Better visibility on the different territories allowing distant audiences to appropriate the artistic education offer existing near them.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167172 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole Municipale de Musique de Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Uppsala kommun/Uppsala kulturskola
• CONSERVATORIO DE MÚSICA DE TORRELAVEGA