The project Music in Us: Innovative Youthwork Methods to Empower Young People through Music and Culture aims to create innovative tools that can be used by youth organisations to promote the use of culture, music and movement in non-formal education. The main aim of the project is to implement non-formal education methods based on culture, music and movement in order to foster young people’s 9 main life competences (LifeComp) which are self-regulation, flexibility, wellbeing, empathy, communication, collaboration, growth mindset, critical thinking, managing learning. The project will empower youth workers and young people with fewer opportunities through curriculum, two innovative toolkits and an e-learning system.
The MUSIC IN US project sets the following specific objectives:
- To ensure the sustainability of the professional development and readiness of youth workers on life competences through the development of a comprehensive non-formal education program, training curriculum, toolkit and interactive content that integrates culture, music and movement to empower young people with fewer opportunities
- To promote the use of culture, music and movement in non-formal education
- To promote the use of culture, music and movement concerning the mental and physical well-being of young people (incl. people with fewer opportunities)
- To promote the use of digital technologies as an effective educational and communication tool (and to foster the digital competences of the involved parties)
- To foster cooperation between NGOs, public bodies, non-formal education experts and other relevant stakeholders
- To promote the LifeComp framework as an instrument for both personal and professional development, inclusiveness and social adaptation
- To provide digital and continuously accessible, free, innovative, inclusive educational content to partner country institutions and the target groups by preparing an LMS and interactive training content on 9 main life competences (LifeComp)
To achieve those objectives, we plan to develop transnational activities and local actions such as:
- Analysis of the target groups
- Developing Methodology and Training Curriculum for Youth Workers
- Developing Methodology and Training Curriculum for Young People
- Creating a Toolkit for Youth Workers: Empowering Non-Formal Education with Music and Culture
- Creating a Toolkit for Young People: Music, Movement and Culture for Mental and Physical Wellbeing
- Learning Teaching Training Activity
- Local Workshops with Youth Workers
- Local Workshops with Young People
TARGET GROUPS:
- Young people (15-29) with fewer opportunities (economic obstacles, geographic
obstacles, NEETs) - Youth workers (incl. organisations and volunteers) who are willing to implement the developed toolkits and NFE methods in their work
- Educational centres and institutions, which can benefit from the project’s results and promote the role of music, culture and movement when fostering life competences
- Other relevant project stakeholders (such as media, policymakers, officials, researchers, educators, trainers on health education and other external specialists)
Project ID: 2023-1-ES02-KA220-YOU-000161004
Duration: 01/09/2023 – 31/08/2025
Partners: Asociación Cultural Dayuri (Coordinator, Spain), Surdurulebilir Kalkinma Dernegi (Turkey), Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture and Education (Bulgaria), Eurobug, International Youth Work Training and Collaboration Limited (Ireland)
The project is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ program.