Since 2009, AOLF has been running traditional music exchange projects for young people as part of an international network called Ethno. These projects are based on learning music by ear, with the young participants not only attending workshops but also taking it in turns to lead their own. At each Ethno, to facilitate the music exchange process and support the participants there are Artistic Leaders, who are professional youth leaders and musicians. AOLF works together with its partners to improve the quality of thèse type of international projects for intercultural meetings through music. As part of this on going process, AOLF and its partners are organising a training course about the active interaction between the different audiences of the projects that use musique as a toll for intercultural meetings. The course will be based on the example of the 'artistic leader' role at Ethno, for 18 participants from 6 European countries, to be held between 19th and 28th of November 2015, in Evry and more widely in the Paris region of France. “Ethnofonik” is a comprehensive, interactive training course aimed at providing the participants with the tools to facilitate the exchange of culture to different audiences through music. The Ethnofonik course will provide the participants, youth leaders and musicians themselves, with musical and social training, enabling them to become effective coaches on music exchange projects, in various contexts from international exchanges to local musical workshops. Through a combination of participative workshops, group discussions, masterclasses and performances, adopting an interactive approach throughout and a constant reflection and evaluation, the participants will work on: - Reflecting on and sharing previous coaching experiences together with experimenting specific type of pedagogical approaches offered by the international trainers team; - Understanding the relevance of this type of coaching to encourage active participation of young musicians, to foster their own meeting and the meeting with local communities; - Identifying and improving specific knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in artistic coaching and for involving local communities in international projects - Putting tools, methods, techniques and materials into practice in real workshop situations. The results presented during the training to the French audience will be some open rehearsals for school classes, a series of masterclasses on traditional music for young French musicians, designed and run by the Ethnofonik participants, small concerts in neighbouring structures and two public concerts by a band formed of all the Ethnofonik participants, performing original arrangements of traditional tunes from the participants countries. The results after the training will be the online availability of the artistic results recordings and a “guide of good practices” gathering all the tools, methods and techniques used during this training. The long term benefit aimed by this training is the empowerment of the young musicans in the exchange of their culture to foster cultural diversity and tolerance, sense of intitative and entrepreneurship at a large level together with the improvement of the local impact of this projects.