Supporting young
people engage and
connect through music

Application period: 10th-23th March
Informing successful applicants: 25th of March
Training period : 16th to 23rd of April
Location : Timisoara, Romania

In the framework of Music Community project (a project funded through the Erasmus+ programme), 16 educators from Romania, Cyprus, Greece and France will have the chance to participate in a week of training activities on the topic of “music as an instrument to help young people to overcome anxiety in a period of a pandemic and post pandemic times”. The training course will take place in Timișoara, Romania.

During the training week, the participants will be introduced to different educational
concepts and tools that have been developed by the MusiCOMMUNITY project. This training course is also a great opportunity to meet fellow educators from other european countries, to exchange ideas about ways of engaging young people through music and to jointly reflect on educational challenges of our times.

Mobility Week Romania // Music Community 16/4-23/4

Afternoon 18.00-21.00 Arrival – Meet and Greet

• Opening Event

Day 2 (Sunday 17/4)

Morning 11.00-13.30

• Presentation – introduction of Erasmus Programme
  Introduction of the project
  Expectations of the participants

Day 3 (Monday 18/4)

Morning 10.30-13.30

• Open Discussion Music as an instrument in non-formal education and its
  inclusiveness dimension – what are the challenges, how to make everyone participate?
  Brainstorming and group work
• IO4 videos and music presentation /evaluation/ suggestions
• Introducing an online application that mixes music with visual arts in order to make
  young people play with sound and visual components.
• Exchange of views and impressions on the use of other apps

Afternoon

• Discovering Timisoara – Visit in the City
• Romanian dinner and party

Day 4 (Tuesday 19/4)

Morning 11.00-13.30

• Open discussion – Using music in non-formal education in connection with formal
  education disciplines (history, psychology, biology, geography, mathematics)- brainstorming
  and open discussion

Afternoon testing 17.00-19.30

• Testing and feedback activity – In groups participants will discover some online
  resources that have been created by the partners in this project – MOOC on mixing music
  and other disciplines. These MOOCs can be used later on by the learners in the educational
  activities they undertake with young people.

Day 5 (Wednesday 20/4)

Morning 11.00-13.30

• Training module – Music education as a holistic approach towards improved
  state of mind of young people during the COVID-19 pandemic- a workshop coordinated
  by an expert in music therapy

Afternoon

• Attending an Opera concert

Day 6 (Thursday 21/4)

Morning 11.00-13.30

• Sharing experiences – youth workers share their experiences (through presentation
  and exemplification) on their previous work with young people integrating music activities.
  What was the reaction of young people? How do the youth workers assess the impact of
  these activities?

Afternoon 17.00-19.30

• Practical activity – How to use recycled materials to create percussion instruments-training lead by percussionist Sorina Savii (from Timișoara National Opera).

Day 7 (Friday 22/4)

Morning 11.00-13.30

• Preparation of the activity during the next months (activities of the project
  in which the youth workers will be involved): peer learning activities with other youth
  workers from each of the countries, testing methodologies with young people and sharing
  information on how the methods would be used (each of the participants has to send a
  report six months after the training)

Conclusions and evaluation of the blended mobility
Wrap up
Afternoon
Free

Day 8 (Saturday 23/4)

Departures

Mandatory qualifications and skills:

Working in non-formal education activities with young people aged 13-30
Having an interest in using music as a catalyst for education

In the application form:

CV – an up to date curriculum vitae

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