MUS-E ON STAGE improves the accessibility to music education and learning for primary school-aged children who come from underpriviledged and migrant backgrounds in Europe. The project involves at least 150 children from Portugal, Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Italy and Spain interacting with 15 professional musicians in face-to-face music workshops.
The project is led by the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and the Associação Yehudi Menuhin Portugal together with MUS-E Belgium, Fundación Yehudi Menuhin España (FYME), MUS-E Italia Onlus, MUS-E Hungary and MUS-E Cyprus.
Objectives
Access to education through music
Music education is beneficial in many ways! Not only to enhance creativity, but also to develop social skills, social inclusion and critical thinking. It can also lay the foundations for a career in the music sector. Convinced of the role of music in schools, MUS-E ON STAGE improves the accessibility of music education for primary school children from disadvantaged and migrant backgrounds in Europe. This project is led by the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in collaboration with 6 partners based in Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Spain, Italy, and Cyprus. Our partners are MUS-E organisations, a programme to promote access to art for primary schools in disadvantaged areas.
Social inclusion
Inclusion is at the heart of the project, as we enable children who would not otherwise have this opportunity to have access to education and music learning. MUS-E ON STAGE also stimulates European musical diversity and talent!
Digital dimension
The main outcome of MUS-E ON STAGE is the creation of online educational resources that will be used by (art) teachers from different European countries to train and record children singing. The collection and editing of all recordings will result in a unique virtual children’s choir. In addition, as part of the project we are organising online workshops to open up to music and different cultures through musical discovery for children.