The Music Balkan Train for Peace

Partners of ''The Music Balkan Train for Peace'' project aimed to the following concrete objectives: 1. Educate students, aged 12-15 from secondary schools on issues upon Peace, tolerance and tack...

Partners of ''The Music Balkan Train for Peace'' project aimed to the following concrete objectives: 1. Educate students, aged 12-15 from secondary schools on issues upon Peace, tolerance and tackle radicalization. 2. Take pilot actions to raise awareness for peace and to tackle radicalization with the support of teachers through schools. 3. Emphasize the important role that schools play as an educational agent sensitizing the future generations on peace issues. 4. Spread peace education and tackle radicalization wide across schools in European Union by providing useful practices and methods.

Implemented activities: - 3 transnational PP meetings - 1 short-term joint staff training event - Development of 2 intellectual outputs/project results - Internal dissemination events in the 3 schools - Development and dissemination of 6 project newsletters - Organization of long-term teaching assignment in the 3 pilot schools with active involvement of schools - Short-term pupils event with the involvement of best performing students from the 3 pilot schools - 3 final dissemination events in the 3 participating countries: Bulgaria, Greece, and North Macedonia - 3 project videos developed by students and teachers of the pilot schools - A website with all the materials from the project like project results, newsletters and promotional videos was developed and will be maintained/updated for at least 5 years beyond the project ending (www.music.cseg.eu)

The project partners developed 2 main intellectual outputs/project results: - A training course and the development of the Toolkit. Training Courses: a training was implemented by trainers provided by AID to the teacher of the three pilot schools, and then the teacher provided the necessary training and guidance to the selected students of the school for the song and the dancing competition, as well as to teachers during internal dissemination events. The toolkit development comprises tools that the trainers can use in order to achieve the training and transfer of knowledge to teachers and students. - The Policy Brief recommendation is a good sample for the new approach towards establishing of strategic partnership in transnational cooperation among different socio-economical organizations (local bodies, educational institutions, civil sector representatives and SMEs) with the aim to ensure implementation of innovative and good practices related to importance of peace, promote empathy, decry racism and radicalization.