GIVE MUSIC A FUTURE aims at promoting emerging European musicians and strengthening youth music competitions. It supports both on their way to be viable for the future and it will do so through exploring new strategies on how youth music competitions can develop audiences and by enhancing the capacities of young European musicians to communicate with the existing audiences and to reach out to new and “non-audiences”. The target audiences are children, families and young adults (max. 30 years) because the participating young musicians are excellent audience developers for an audience of the same age. To this end, the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth (EMCY) will partner with youth music competitions all over Europe, an organisation for non-formal music education, music schools, the Spanish section of the worldwide biggest youth music organisation and cultural venues. To achieve the objectives and to address the target audiences identified for this project, GIVE MUSIC A FUTURE proposes a diverse set of activities: International workshops and interactive performances on audience communication, Reach out sessions with young refugees, immigrants, traveller kids and underrepresented groups, Musical theatre for families, an online violin competition with the rule: Everything except the classical repertoire and performance, Interdisciplinary concerts with professional orchestras and international Premiers of a contemporary composition. All activities are played by young emerging musicians, selected and awarded by the partners´ competitions. Every activity will be assessed systematically and builds the basis for the project´s long term strategy: transferable guidelines for audience development at youth music competitions. To maximise the outreach, the partners cooperate with public radios and the European Broadcasting Union. Online profiles of young European musicians will facilitate their selection and will internationalise their careers.