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|project_title=[[Everybody’s Song – Music as a tool to promote diversity and intercultural understanding]] | |project_title=[[EUROPE-AID/Everybody’s Song – Music as a tool to promote diversity and intercultural understanding]] | ||
|contract_number=130709-5.1.XL-CY-2006-R1 | |contract_number=130709-5.1.XL-CY-2006-R1 | ||
|funding_period=01/12/2006 to 31/05/2008 | |funding_period=01/12/2006 to 31/05/2008 | ||
|coordinator=[[Future Worlds Center]] | |coordinator=[[Future Worlds Center]] ([[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute |CNTI]]) | ||
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|total_cost=€200.670,45 | |total_cost=€200.670,45 | ||
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==Background and Overview== | ==Background and Overview== | ||
Everybody’s Song is an international youth project in Bulgaria, Cyprus, FYR Macedonia, Greece and Serbia which lasted from December 2006 until August 2008. The project was conceived under the idea that music can be a powerful tool for intercultural understanding and peace. Music allows people to communicate and share emotions even when they don’t speak the same language. It can unite people or divide them. All over the world there are songs spreading messages of peace, humanity and solidarity. But everywhere one will also find songs with nationalistic, militaristic, racist, sexist or other discriminatory contents. | Everybody’s Song is an international youth project in Bulgaria, Cyprus, FYR Macedonia, Greece and Serbia which lasted from December 2006 until August 2008. The project was conceived under the idea that music can be a powerful tool for intercultural understanding and peace. Music allows people to communicate and share emotions even when they don’t speak the same language. It can unite people or divide them. All over the world there are songs spreading messages of peace, humanity and solidarity. But everywhere one will also find songs with nationalistic, militaristic, racist, sexist or other discriminatory contents. | ||
The project was conceived and coordinated by | The project was conceived and coordinated by [[Future Worlds Center]] ([[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute |CNTI]]). The people who participate in the projects came from more than 20 countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the UK. The project was affiliated to the European Youth Campaign for Diversity, Human Rights and Participation "All Different All Equal" (2006–2007), and to the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue, 2008. | ||
==Methodology== | ==Methodology== | ||
The project used a participatory approach related to both the working and the evaluation methods. The three angles of the project were: education/training, arts/creativity and technology. The training methodology was multidimensional, interactive and creative. It was based on a constructivist, learner-centred approach addressing not only cognitive but also emotional and social dimensions. Art, especially music, was the element which made this intercultural learning project specific compared to others. Technology played a significant role for the facilitation of the communication between the partners and for the documentation of the project on the DVD and website. | |||
==Aims and Objectives== | ==Aims and Objectives== | ||
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#Raise awareness about shared cultural heritage in South East Europe | #Raise awareness about shared cultural heritage in South East Europe | ||
#Improve cooperation between youth organisations and artists (musicians) | #Improve cooperation between youth organisations and artists (musicians) | ||
# | #Increase visibility of the participating youth organisations and the Youth in Action Programme | ||
#A set of elaborated tools and well documented good practice examples using music as a tool in intercultural understanding and youth work for the promotion of diversity, tolerance and non-violent conflict transformation; this set is mainly aimed at youth workers, NGOs, music and arts teachers and musicians working with young people. It will be accessible in 3 ways: | #A set of elaborated tools and well documented good practice examples using music as a tool in intercultural understanding and youth work for the promotion of diversity, tolerance and non-violent conflict transformation; this set is mainly aimed at youth workers, NGOs, music and arts teachers and musicians working with young people. It will be accessible in 3 ways: | ||
*on an interactive website (partly available in seven different languages) including a download section | *on an interactive website (partly available in seven different languages) including a download section | ||