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Ensemble project was implemented 2018 – 221 by five VET education providers and one working-life partner from three member states, Finland, Estonia, and UK. The partners were Kainuun ammattiopisto and Keski-Pohjanmaan Konservatorio from Finland, North West Regional College from Northern Ireland, Georg Otsa nim. Tallinna Muusikakool from Estonia and Glasgow Kelvin College and Connect-IN Enterprises from Scotland. The target group was secondary level students and staff in vocational education in the fields of music performance (classical, pop, jazz, and folk music) and music technology.The music industry is an international business. That is why students in the partner countries have to be prepared for work in the international labour market. The project aims were to enhance students’ entrepreneurial and employability skills and facilitate appropriate individual/group business startup. The overall objectives of any Erasmus project are twofold, the work carried out through the LTT activity, and the personal development afforded to the individual participant.This project, too, showed that music is an international field where learning and competence are not tied to a place or a country. Participants' personal skills increased both professionally and in terms of other skills, such as language skills. Participants’ teamwork skills increased during the project. During both face-to-face and virtual courses, students worked in multicultural teams. They produced new music together.The purpose was to plan a joint start-up company in the partner countries. A common idea was being prepared, but because of Brexit, it was first put on hold and then abandoned altogether.The Ensemble project had a number of results:- a model how to create music in international environment as a blended mobility - a model how to create music in an international environment totally virtually. This was an added value that we got because of the pandemic. We were forced to change one the LTTs to be a virtual one and it succeeded well. - three face-to-face LTTs- one virtual LTT- 12 new musical groups, 2 live events, 5 studio sessions, 10 new written songs.- Altogether 40 granted students participated in the LTT activities. That number does include the students at the hosting schools. - Altogether 9 different granted teachers participated in the LTT activities. That number does include the teachers at the hosting schools.Our network of music education VET providers was able to implement the project almost according to the original objectives in spite of the major problems, Brexit and the pandemic.Both Brexit and COVID had substantial impacts.COVID has meant the latest LTT was completed online; whilst the aim to produce collaborative output has been achieved, the lack of physical mobilities will undoubtedly have reduced exposure to the rand of partner cultures and ways of working.The Brexit element is more subtle. Generally, as projects enter their final stages, the partner groups discuss possible next steps: Brexit has meant a necessarily fragmented end.
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