We wanted music students to build transnational relationships, increase their intercultural openness and tolerance while also help them improve their music making skills and the key competence creativity through interconnected learning and mutual exchange. With this project we also wanted the students from both schools to start exploring and facilitating new digital tools for music making across borders. As organizations we wanted to develop a solid understanding of, and experience with, digital communication tools and to execute a successfully organized exchange and partnership with our partner school that will last beyond this project. On a greater level we were hoping to strengthen the cultural bond between Sweden and Estonia in the classical music field.
We applied for this project because we observed a need for greater intercultural experiences for our students to prepare them for a future in the artistic field. We strongly believe in the pedagogic idea that creative learning. Through artistic experiences we create deep lasting knowledge and this project and the funding from Erasmus made this possible. Our young musicians also need a greater readiness for the technology of the future. With digitalization, musicianship quickly is becoming an art and a profession that expects intercultural understanding and experience. As an organization we also saw a need of international partners with similar challenges and strengths to learn from and build lasting relations with.