IYMF among the 10 projects selected under the call “Music Education and Learning”

IYMF is among the 10 projects selected under the Creative Europe call “Music Education and Learning” (EAC/S53/2019). Let’s come back on this call and give an small teaser about our symbolic project for our MUS-E network! 

MUSIC MOVES EUROPE: Preparatory Action testing suitable actions for more targeted EU funding for music post-2020.

Music Moves Europe (MME) is the overarching framework for the European Commission‘s initiatives and actions in support of Europe’s music sector. Developed from a series of meetings with representatives of the music sector starting in 2015, Music Moves Europe was launched as a strategic initiative by the Commission. It has since developed further and today stands for the EU support for music.

With MME, the European Commission wants to build on and strengthen further the sector’s strong assets: creativity, diversity and competitiveness. The ultimate goal is to develop a truly European music policy.

Music Moves Europe’s specific objectives are:

  • promote creativity and innovation;
  • safeguard and expand the diversity of European music;
  • help the sector adapt to and benefit from digitisation.

EU actions in support of Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) are cross-sectoral, covering also the music sector. While this cross-sectoral approach to EU collaboration on culture remains a feature of the New European Agenda for Culture adopted by the Commission in May 2018, the Commission acknowledged the impossibility of having a one-size-fits-all approach for all CCI and announced sector-specific initiatives in the most mature cultural sectors, especially music.

Member States in the Council of the European Union decided that Music Moves Europe should become part of their cooperation on culture at EU level; and therefore an action on music has been included in the new Council Work Plan for Culture 2019-22. Work has already started with a conference under the Romanian Presidency of the Council in June 2019. Further Commission-led expert workshops will take place in 2020, while another Presidency conference is planned for 2021 under the Portuguese Presidency of the Council.

 
 

MUSIC EDUCATION AND LEARNING

Studies have shown that music education is beneficial in many ways for the development of social competences, fostering social inclusion, enhancing creativity and promoting critical thinking. On this topic, IYMF has published an article on this blog. In addition, it can well lay the groundwork for professional orientation towards a career in the music sector.

Music education can have a formal but also non-formal and informal dimension. Even if this call focuses on informal/non-formal music education, it has to be seen as part of a broader concept of art education.

In its resolution on the New European Agenda for Culture, the European Parliament highlighted in the same spirit the role of music and arts education in schools and stressed its added value. Education and training systems, together with non-formal and informal learning , have a fundamental role to play in developing creative and innovative capacities from an early age as key factors in enhancing future economic competitiveness and employability and equally important in promoting personal fulfilment and development, social inclusion and active citizenship.

The Council Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning should be taken into account alongside the recently updated European reference framework on key competences for lifelong learning (2018) which defines “Cultural awareness and expression” as one of the eight key competences necessary for employability, personal fulfilment and health, active and responsible citizenship and social inclusion.

OUR PROJECT: MUS-E ON STAGE

MUS-E ON STAGE improves the accessibility to music education and learning for primary school-aged children coming from underpriviledged and migrant backgrounds in Europe. The project stems from a close collaboration with the Associação Yehudi Menuhin Portugal (AYMP)

More info about our new project coming soon…