The project MUZOLINGUA INTERNATIONAL was created to give the youth and adults from 4 countries opportunities to work together, get new skills and inspiration for international cooperation and be more employable in the creative sector. The project will be realised to give the participants a chance to get new knowledge on how to survive in the most difficult period for artists and performers during the pandemic. The partners decided to work together because each partner has something to offer and add to the partnership to make it a scuccessful and beneficial lesson for all, the youth and adults working with youth, local societies, European heritage. The project is a response to a deep crisis of the creative sector in general and the need to be more adaptable to the new reality, eg. remote learning and creating rometoley with the use of new online and digital tools. The project's main focus will be on music and music production but it will also provide the participants with some other soft skills impossible to be achieved in formal education and without the international partnership. The project will last 2 years. There are 4 international Music Capms planned in every partner country, 2 international meetings in 2021 and 2 in 2022. In a meantime the partners will have some tasks assigned to enhance the partnership and facilitate the learning process leading to achieving the same results by all. There are four partners involved in the partnership representing different areas and sectors, both private and public, which brings an added value to the partnership. Ethnofield (Poland) - private company whose expertise is to work withing the music sector, produce music, promote folk music worldwide. Ethnofield is also engaged in initiating local projects aimed at cultural heritage preservation and promotion. Ethnofield is cooperating with local musicians, artists and cultural intitution of Podhale region in Poland with its unique folklore and traditions. Community Works Preston (UK) - charity whose expertise is working with disprivilaged youth and providing educational activities and trainings to youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. CWP uses music as a toll to engage youth in social life and making them active on the labour market. CWP is fully equipped with music studio, instruments and well trained staff, which brings an added value to the partnership; Permacultura Cantabria (Spain) - NGO, whose expertise is working internationally with various partners and promote sustainalbe and circular economy concepts and solutions in all the activities. The concept of circular economy is a must nowadays which has to be considered while realising international projects that is why Permacultura will conbtribute to the project with this valuable expertise and knowledge how to make the creative sector more adoptable to the circular economy; Kulturskola (Sweden) - state school in Gallivare affiliated to the Culture Center of the commune in Sweden whose expertise is to be a culture center for local citizens, teaching music and other professions within the creative sector. Gallivare is a commune situated remotely in the north with a limited access to any bigger cities. The city sufferes from socio-economic problems connected with the fact that it was built on the steel deposit, endangered with resettlement. All the activities planned will lead to preparing the youth to start careers within the creative sector, be more employable, open minded and creative. The project's objective is to stimulate European awareness in the field of music creation, musical heritage of Europe. All the methodology used is planned to give the participants a chance to learn by doing. The methods will be all those used in informal education. The coordinators are all very experienced in applying such methods. The applicant employed a very experienced youth coorinator with a high expertise in informal learning methods. The participants will have the real tasks to perform which will give them a chance to get new skills and learn useful tools for their future work in the creative sector. Muzolingua Int. is a unique and innovative project that brings together organisation from different coutntries and specialties. A project board that will enthuse, engage and empower a minimum of 20 young people (5 youth per country per international music camp) with creative flair to take up and establish creative businesses. The project partners will facilitate a learning process that will involve the 20 young people labring about different creative techniques, all underpined by an adherence to the concept of the circular economy. As a result of participantion in the project we anticipate that a minumin of 80% will gain employement 40% will create individual business/companies within the creative sector. Every participant, partners, trainers and young people will develop a new knowledge of creativity and opportunity.
- equip young people and adults with new knowledge and necessary tools to be a beneficiary of the creative sector - provide competences needed to come up with creative and innovative solutions - show the work within a creative sector as the comprehensive one covering both musical and techinical skills - teach youth to face unprecedented risks such as the need to work online and use modern digital tools - be prepared for societal challenges and adapting to work and perform in a changing reality - mix organisations from formal, informal and non-formal education, together with those from the creative and cultural sectors, - stimulate European awareness in the field of music creation, musical heritage of Europe - enhance skills development and competences that reinforce creativity - boost quality, innovation and recognition of youth work that support the creative potential of youth, - contribute to the recovery of the cultural and creative sectors - reinforce cross-sectoral cooperation with a focus on creativity, European citizenship and cultural awareness of all citizens - enhance partnerships with the formal, informal and non-formal educational sector focusing on young people and professionals - promote green recovery
We applied for the project in the time of Covid while the profession of the musicians suffered dramatically and for the longest period of time. We decided that this is a great moment to realise international project for young musicians in order to show them new trends in working (online toold/remotely) and encourage them to stay or commence their careers in the creative sector. This was the period in which a lot of musicians started to fly away from the profession and the creative sector is said to generate a huge income to the economy of the European Union. The need at the time of application process was to meet with teenagers from other countries, be inspired, learn new skills, travel and get the grasp of the profession of the musician. We also planned to enhance the capacity of 4 organisations working directly with disadvantaged youth who suffered most during the time of covid. We wished to make folk music more popular among youth and music being a great tool for social integration. We wanted to promote the idea of preserving cultural heritage of 4 European countries to show youth that we have folk music, folk traditions and it is worth remembering and cultivating among youth nowadays.