MUSIC for YOUTH

MUSIC FOR YOUTH AS AN ELEMENT OF IMPROVING SOFT SKILLS
Project duration: 2 years
Call No: KA205 – Strategic Partnership for Youth
Scope of Project:
In the study and practice of music, young people learn way more than simply how to sing or play an instrument. Most of us may not become professional musicians as adults, but the benefits of practicing and performing music adds up to much more than just having it “just as a hobby.” Musicians benefit from a number of soft work and relational skills such as emotional intelligence, that are helpful in any type of career. As opposed to hard competency skills, which consist of specific knowledge and skills needed for a given job, soft work skills are equally important abilities that allow you to engage well with others and accomplish work projects successfully, and these soft skills are definitely in high demand, among corporations.
Therefore, having soft skills makes you more desirable and competitive in the job market and increases your probability of success in any position — even if you’re an entrepreneur! Whether you eventually pursue a music-related career or not, you will still greatly benefit from being more prepared to face future employment challenges by having these 7 soft skills, learned through the musical experience:
1. Time Management
2. Cultural Adaptability
3. Attention to details
4. Communication
5. Team Collaboration
6. Openness to Feedback
7. Confidence
Team collaboration is an indispensable skill in the business world. People have different giftings, cultural background, personalities and working styles, but they all must synergise together for individual and team success. Similarly musical ensembles of any size need to collaborate as a team, overcoming personal differences to produce good work.
"Music for Youth" project consists of aims to;

- Bring young people together at blended mobility of young people activities in order to help to improve their soft skills through music and to show them music is an element of improving soft skills. These youngsters would be between the ages of 18-26 where they are having a kind of career planning or at the very beginning of their careers.
- Create a digital platform called "Career meet point through music" for young people, as well as adult professionals, where people included in network formed after blended mobility activities will be able to share their career stories, expectations from professional life, positive effect of music as a hobby to their career planning etc. This digital platform will be hosting for online seminars, discussion sessions, sharing musical creativeness, success story sharing sessions etc. in related to career planning.
- Organize training activities in order to train young people on soft skills, how to improve soft skills, how to have positive effect of music as an element of improving soft skills etc. These young people, after having this training program, will be group leaders / mentors / promoters during blended mobility of youth activities. They will have active roles for the development of schedule / planning / content / scope of blended mobility activities.
- Organize workshops in by participation of all project partners to exchange of good practices from different countries and cultures in regards to soft skills, how to improve soft skills, how to have positive effect of music as an element of improving soft skills etc. All aspects of soft skills and importance of music as an element of improving soft skills will be discussed by the participation experts from different disciplines.