The Project

Netsounds (Network of Educational Technologies: SOUNDS) is a network project co-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme EACEA, Key Activity 3- ICT. The project started in January 2009 and will close in December 2011.

The Netsounds project aims to:

• promote music education through new technologies and social networking based tools;
• promote mutual understanding and collaborative synergies among the actors involved;
• share best practices in music education through new technologies and the internet;
• allow educational institutions, centres of research, associations of teachers and students and industry to be kept informed of new developments in music education through new technologies;
• foster collaboration among stakeholders both private and public in the field;
• raise awareness of politicians in the EU about developments in music education through new technologies.

Netsounds addresses the promotion of the pedagogical value of the music/technology binomial within different contexts of education, training and business settings.

To reach the above listed aims, the network plans:

• to set up a consistent project management framework to coordinate activities and dialogue with the Executive Agency;
• to create a public database of good practice in Music Education through ICT and online learning, to support and encourage teachers, educational institutions, educational software/music providers;
• to build consensus and support transnational and transectoral cooperation among the actors involved, by means of:
  • continuous animation and networking among the identified target groups and stakeholders, having as a meeting point the network website;
  • the organisation of European seminars for ICT use in Music Education, national workshops addressed to music teachers, national policy seminars addressed to decision and policy makers in the field of music education and national workshops in the frame of existing events (music related and education/pedagogy related) on Music Education through ICT;
• to undertake a massive dissemination activity to support transnational cooperation and to raise awareness within the communities addressed by the action;
• to provide an exploitation plan and a provisional masterplan for the sustainability of the network beyond the project lifespan;
• to carry out quality and evaluation activities, in order to ensure proper management of the network and the consistency of its results