Making music together in the spirit of sustainability.
▶Summary
Forming an attitude related to environmental awareness is a challenge for the music schools. Teachers and students collaborate with partners in an international cooperation to create a concert ser...
▶Objectives
Forming an attitude related to environmental awareness is a challenge for the music schools. Teachers and students collaborate with partners in an international cooperation to create a concert series that draws attention to environmental protection and sustainability. During the sessions, they get to know each other, the culture and language of other nations. Friendships are born which makes them open, accepting, inclusive. What they have learned, they incorporate into their everyday practice.
▶Activities
Pupils from the participating schools perform works by their own national composers, folk songs and jointly composed accompanying music. The closing of the concert is that piece of music what composed together, which the participants perform together on instruments what made by themselves from waste. By studying each other's work, the teachers in the participating schools collect and share good practices and methods in the field of sustainability, inclusion and diversity.
▶Impact
The important benefit of the project is the development of a creative, innovative way of thinking. Everyday routine is replaced by creativity, openness to new things and flexibility. The impact appears in all areas of the school's work. Teachers use new tools and methods in their teaching lessons. The students become open and receptive towards each other, think responsibly about the environment and a sustainable future.