Utvikle enhetlige utdanningsoversikter i musikkinstrumentmakerfaget i Norden og Tyskland.

The overall goal is to save an industry that is in danger of dying out. Knowledge is about to disappear completely. We want to create a platform in the form of education plans, which can be used ...

The overall goal is to save an industry that is in danger of dying out. Knowledge is about to disappear completely. We want to create a platform in the form of education plans, which can be used by all 8 subjects, in a framework. The framework plan will initially contain 2 parts/educations. It will contain a foundation year, which deals with the national instruments in the Nordic Region. This is to be able to preserve and develop the Nordic and Baltic folk music instruments. Then we will have a two-year classic instrument builder education with a chosen field of study. Here in the project, we have chosen to develop a curriculum for the brass instrument making subject, which will be equivalent to German education. In the longer term, the project work will be a basis for establishing education plans for the remaining subjects – woodwind, guitar, violin, accordion, piano, church organ and music electronics. In this regard, students who attend school in the region will be able to take part of their education as exchange students in Germany and vice versa.

We have carried out all our activities that have been planned in the project. First, we started with a kick-off and have had many digital work meetings and work periods, team meetings and employee appraisals. We have had partner meetings during the project period. We have had five trips that have not been covered financially by the project, or are mentioned elsewhere in the project, have been carried out. These journeys have crystallized naturally in the project's progress and development. We count 58 activities in total planned and 63 activities that have been carried out during the project period. We ended the project period with a concluding and summing up partner meeting in Fredrikstad, Norway.

We have made a framework plan for 60 and 120 credits that can be used by brass, woodwind, guitar, violin, piano, accordion, church organ and music electronics. We have made a one-year curriculum for folk music instrument maker education - brass 60 credits, and a curriculum for a two-year classical music instrument maker education - brass 120 credits. The curricula have been verified in Germany by the German Chamber of Crafts, as equivalent to the German curricula within the same subject area. Other results, as mentioned in the application, we need a musical instrument making school in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Because of this project, an international vocational school for musical instrument makers was established in Norway in November 2023. An application for accreditation was sent to NOKUT in August 2024. It is the goal and direct consequence of this project to get an accredited vocational school up and running within a short time.