The main objective of the project "Music is forever, for everyone, everywhere!" is the planning and realisation of a music show. The frame story, the selection and the arrangement of the songs, the costumes and the marketing and information material (including the entrance tickets) will be planned, developed and produced by the students. In the course of the joint preparations for the projects all partners agreed that there will be songs or pieces of music from different decades of the 20th and 21st century to give the musicians and the bespoke tailors the opportunity to show a wide range of their abilities.A more detailed planning of the background story of the music show, for example a trip through time with stopovers in all participating countries or a "Boy meets Girl"-story in different generations, will be discussed and fixed by the students on the first transnational project meeting in Sweden at the beginning of the project. Altogether, four schools from Germany, Finland, Sweden and Spain are going to participate in the project. The coordinating school is the Johann-Joachim-Becher Schule Berufsbildende Schule Speyer.The Johann-Joachim-Becher Schule is a vocational and technical college with a wide range of different economic, technical and vocational classes and school forms. Slightly over 1,600 students are taught by a approximately 100 teachers. The students participating in the project will come from the three-year-college for bespoke tailoring. Their role in the project is to design and produce the costumes for the show. "Rantasalmen lukio" is a upper secondary school with 65 students altogether located in the small community of Rantasalmi in the thinly populated east of Finland. The school is specialised on music and studio technology. The school cooperates with the local wind band society and the adult education center of Rantasalmi.The Plusgymnasiet in Jonköping, Sweden, has a total number of about 300 students aged between 16 and 19 years. The school hosts six different specialisations, which partly prepare the students for studying at university. The classes participating in the project focus on music.The students from Finland and Sweden will cover the musical part of the project.The secondary school ES REINO AFTASI is located in Badajoz, a city in the south west of Spain. 63 teachers work together with about 800 students focusing on different fields. The most important specialisation of the school the department for fine and visual arts focusing on print media design. This is why the students from the Spanish partner school will be in charge of the Corporate Design (including the logo and the color concept) and the developing and producing of all kinds of PR material (posters, flyers, program leaflet, entrance tickets). They will also be responsible for the uploading and supervising of the blogs and presentation of the project on e-twinning and the complete and final documentation of the project as a whole in an e-book, which can also be printed out if required.Through the project activities as described above the specialist skills of all participating students will be supported and enhanced.The methodological approach of the project focuses on self-steered learning and peer-learning. The teachers only set the frame for the project activities and support the students as coordinators and advisors whenever it is necessary.The project follows a holistic approach. The bespoke tailors are not going to produce the costumes for a fashion show, as they are used to do, but for a music show. Thus they get the opportunity to see a bigger picture and get an example for how their products are used for purposes other than a fashion show. The musicians experience that a music show is more than playing the music and singing the songs. They realise that the costumes are a meaningful supplement of the music.The print designers learn how important the visual presentation and the marketing material is for each project that is aimed at the public and designed to attract an audience.The results of the project will be available for the everybody inside and outside the participating schools for several years into the future, especially on the schools' websites. The project will initiate structures and produce and an expertise at each partner school which will provide resources serving as a basis for future European activities. Each participant of the project will enhance their professional, personal, social and inter-cultural competences which will positively influence their chances for their professional careers. This is especially important for those students from all partner schools affected by social, economic and geographic marginalisation.
The project "Music is forever, for everyone, everywhere!" was run by four partner schools from Speyer (Germany), Rantasalmi (Finland), Jonkoping (Sweden) and Badajoz (Spain). The main objective of the project was the planning and realisation of a music show. The story line, the selection and the arrangement of the songs, the costumes, the marketing and information material, the entrance tickets and other merchandising products (t-shirts, stickers) were developed and produced by the students. According to the agreements made during the joint preparations for the project the students decided on a frame story and the songs to be performed in the show on the first transnational project meeting in Jonkoping in November 2016. The frame story of the show is about a young man searching for the woman he fell in love with. On his search a magic stone, who gives the show its name "Stone away", again and again throws him into different years of the 20th and 21st century. In each of these years a contemporary song or piece of music is performed, supplemented by dancing elements and two short fashion shows. By looking back at the rough planning from the application form ("a trip through time with stopovers in all participating countries or a 'Boy meets Girl'-story in different generations") it can easily be stated that it prepared a perfect ground for the students to let their creativity run free and to regard the final concept of the music show as their own creation leading to a high level identification with the project among the participating students. The coordinating school was the Johann-Joachim-Becher Schule BBS Speyer. There, slightly over 1,600 students are taught by a approximately 100 teachers in a wide range of different classes and school forms. The students participating in the project mainly came from the three-year-college for bespoke tailoring. Their role in the project was to design and produce the costumes for the music show. At the music shows they were supported by hairstylist trainees from Speyer and Jonkoping taking care of the hair styles an the make-up of the singers, musicians, dancers and actors."Rantasalmen lukio" is a upper secondary school with 65 students located in the small community of Rantasalmi in the east of Finland. The school is specialised in music and studio technology. In these fields the school cooperates with the local wind band society and the adult education center of Rantasalmi.The "Plusgymnasiet" in Jonköping has a total number of about 300 students aged between 16 and 19. The students participating in the project focus on music, one out of six different specialisations.The students from Finland and Sweden provided most of the singers and musicians for the project. At the "IES Reino Aftasi" in Badajoz, 63 teachers work together with about 800 students. The most important specialisation of the school is the department for fine and visual arts focusing on print media design. This is why the students from the Spanish partner school were in charge of the Corporate Design (including the logo and the color concept), all kinds of PR material (posters, flyers, stickers, program leaflet, entrance tickets). They were also responsible for the complete and final documentation of the project as a whole in an e-book. Moreover, the Spanish partner school contributed to the realisation of the show by providing the dancers and two additional singers. They also created and delivered the sound effects for the music show. Through the project activities as described above the specialist skills of all participating students were supported and enhanced. The methodological approach of the project focused on self-steered learning and peer learning. The teachers only set the frame for the project activities and supported the students as coordinators and advisors whenever it was necessary. The project followed a holistic approach. The bespoke tailors did not - as usually - produce the costumes for a fashion show, but contributed considerably to an international musical joint venture. The musicians experienced that the music was supplemented, refined and completed by the costumes. The print designers learned how important the visual presentation and the marketing material is for each project that is aimed at the public and designed to attract an audience. At each partner school the project initiated experience and structures thus laying the foundation and providing resources serving as a basis for future European activities. The participants of the project were able to enhance their professional, personal, social and inter-cultural competences which has positively influenced their chances for their future professional careers. Especially the students from all partner schools affected by social, economic and geographic marginalisation are going to benefit from their participation in the project to an extend that can hardly be overestimated..