Based on recent experiences of good cooperation between our two schools, and on the continous need to develop our teaching methods, we would very much like to see this project sketch become a reality. We call our music project "Heritage meets Modern - The mixture of Old and New in Modern Music (...)". Through this project we would like to let pupils do workshops and concerts together, with traditional/classical and folk music on the one hand, modern music on the other hand, and as a third element the mixture of old and new music. This approach can lead to a better understanding of musical culture and a deeper appreciation of cultural differencies. For our cooperation, the musical traditions of the Sami people in Northern Scandinavia and the influences of Slavic music in Saxony are interesting, in addition to more clearly defined Norwegian and German music. All this is something we see in the light of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018. We wish to open the hearts and minds of our pupils to the possibilities of making music together, and the ability to do so, through experience, and thereby enhancing the levels of mutual understanding and the will and ability to share and develop creative processes together. Doing things together, in the international language of music, creates bonds and mutual understanding. We also want to achieve mutual learning of music didactics, from each other, for teachers taking part in the cooperation. Finally, we wish to open the eyes of our pupils for the bigger European education and job market in the music field. We wish to let as many as 28 pupils from each school take part in the mobilities. Besides, we think there is a need of sending two training persons and two accompanying persons (all of them teachers) with the pupils, pupils, who will be over as well as under the age of 18. When visiting the other school, the visitors will take part in workshops with pupils and teachers at the host school. For Bodø videregående skole, this cooperation also means an enhancing of the already established status of the school as the only PASCH-school in Norway, with its focus on cooperation with Germany and the Goethe Institute. The PASCH-school status means that the school emphazises and seeks to develop German as a subject and Germany as an important country in different other subjects. We think of the musical workshops themselves as concrete results, when it comes to doing things together, and thereby creating interdependence and a feeling of togetherness across our countries´ borders. Besides, we will let visitors and hosts give concerts together, at both places, for fellow pupils and also for wider audiences. This will contribute to the same as the workshops and also to the dissemination of some, at least, of the objectives that we hope to achieve. If personal bonds between Saxony and Nordland come into existence, which we think will happen, this will contribute even further to mutual understanding and the appreciation of cultural differencies. With regard to the practical objective of opening our pupils´ eyes to the wider European job market for musicians, we plan to invite representatives of music institutions in both cities to come and inform both visitors and hosts about the job market in Nordland/Norway and Saxony/Germany, during the visits. Through these different measures we think we will be able to approach the three topics addressed by our project. The musical concept of letting old and new music from our two regions meet, is an interesting contribution to the European Cultural Heritage Year. Through informing our pupils about the job possibilities for musicians in our two countries and regions we aim at pointing out some important labour market issues and thereby, possibly, contributing to reducing the problem of youth unemployment. Through planning and carrying out workshops and concerts we are quite sure that our music teachers at both schools will gain something in the field of pedagogy and didactics. Through the two school years 2018/19 and 2019/20 we plan to carry out two weeks of workshops and concerts, one week in Dresden in March 2019 and one in Bodø in March 2020. Ahead of these weeks we will do careful planning, at preparatory meetings, which we think are necessary, and by telephone and E-mails. During the project we aim at seeking new didatical approaches for us teachers. We will try to let our objectives be at the centre of the planning and the activities themselves. By finding music which fits our focus on "Heritage meets Modern", by informing the pupils about the labour markets for musicians in both countries and by creating music together, we are sure that we will achieve our objectives to some degree, hopefully to a large degree, although this cannot be measured as easy as the temperature outside. We also plan to disseminate our results at our schools and to wider audiences nationally and through the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.
Based on recent experiences of good cooperation between our two schools, and on the continous need to develop our teaching methods, we wished to let this project become a reality. We called our music project "Heritage meets Modern - The mixture of Old and New in Modern Music (...)". Through this project we wanted to let pupils do workshops and concerts together, with traditional/classical and folk music on the one hand, modern music on the other hand, and as a third element the mixture of old and new music. This approach could lead to a better understanding of musical culture and a deeper appreciation of cultural differencies, we thought. For our cooperation, the musical traditions of the Sami people in Northern Scandinavia and the influences of Slavic music in Saxony were interesting, in addition to more clearly defined Norwegian and German music. All this we saw in the light of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018. We wished to open the hearts and minds of our pupils to the possibilities of making music together, and the ability to do so, through experience, and thereby enhancing the levels of mutual understanding and the will and ability to share and develop creative processes together. Doing things together, in the international language of music, creates bonds and mutual understanding. We also wanted to achieve mutual learning of music didactics, from each other, for teachers taking part in the cooperation. Finally, we wished to open the eyes of our pupils for the bigger European education and job market in the music field. We sent 28 pupils from BVGS to EKG in March 2019, together with two training persons, two accompanying persons (all of them teachers) and the leader of our school´s library. The librarian made interviews with the participants, took pictures and wrote for several newspapers in the Bodø area, where our pupils come from. Besides, a Norwegian composer visited us in Dresden, who herself has been a pupil at the music department at BVGS. She brought with her a new composition, especially made and arrangert for the workshop. All visitors took part in workshops with pupils and teachers at EKG. For BVGS, this cooperation also meant an enhancing of the already established status of the school as the only PASCH-school in Norway, with its focus on cooperation with Germany and the Goethe Institute. The PASCH-school status means that the school emphazises and seeks to develop German as a subject and Germany as an important country in different other subjects. We think of the musical workshops themselves as concrete results, when it comes to doing things together, and thereby creating interdependence and a feeling of togetherness across our countries´ borders. Unfortunately, due to the corona pandemic, we were able to do this only at our first pupils´ and teachers´ exchange in Dresden in March 2019. Having said that, we appreciate what we achieved in Dresden, as two schools together. We let visitors and hosts give concerts together, for fellow pupils and wider audiences, consisting of other teachers and familiy members of the German pupils. This was a contribution to the same ends as the workshops and also to the dissemination of some of the objectives that we hope to achieve. Through what we did together, musically and socially, both teachers and pupils found new friends from the other school. This has obviously contributed to more mutual understanding and the appreciation of cultural differencies. With regard to the practical objective of opening our pupils´ eyes to the wider European job market for musicians, our Norwegian teachers informed the German pupils about the study and job market in Norway, for musicians. Due to corona, the German teachers weren´t able to the same, as planned, in Bodø. Through these different measures we think we approached the three topics addressed by our project. The musical concept of letting old and new music from our two regions meet, is an interesting contribution to the European Cultural Heritage Year. Through informing the German pupils about the job possibilities for musicians in Norway we made a possible contribution to reducing the problem of youth unemployment in the near future. Through planning and carrying out workshops and concerts in Dresden we are sure that our music teachers at both schools gained something in the field of pedagogy and didactics. We have disseminated some of our results in newspapers in the Bodø area in Norway and through the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.