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VIOLIN NET MAKING
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

This project has been promoted by the Department of Violin making of the Music Conservatory Juan Crisostomo Arriaga of Bilbao, the only shool in Spain which teaches Luthierie (Building and Restoration of bowed string instruments -violin, viola and violoncelo-, Professional Qualifications level III ). The Department of Education of the Basque Government has promoted the renewal and adaptation of these teachings to current needs and future challenges, which are the improvement of quality and standing, to achieve the quality standards of the best European schools, which will increase the chances of employability of our students, main aim of our activity. In order to overcome their difficulties in employability, in 2013 we started an ambitious plan to improve the training quality of our students with a new curriculum, the improvement of the skills of teachers, the provision of sufficient human, material and financial resources, job training in qualified workshops, etc. Likewise, for this employment purpose we are developing another line of action: the recognition of such status by the professionals, both companies and professional musicians. In short, a strategic plan so that quality and standing are our hallmark for 2020. We have the support and encouragement of the Department of Education of the Basque Government and the full involvement of the headmistress team of the Conservatory. Together we have the resources and capacity to carry out the requested KA102 actions. With a proactive attitude, we take this dynamic as of vital importance to the development and progress of our project, which will continue in the same line even if funding and coverage through the Erasmus + program is not achieved. This is the added value of our project: the human capital drivingit, that believes in what is doing, with great effort and enthusiasm. For that purpose, we request 9 mobilities -5 for students' job training in companies abroad, 1 for staff training and 3 for expert teaching staff. With all of them we hope to improve the professional skills of our students, and place it in the zone of influence of the companies in Europe which stand for quality and prestige, thus increasing their employability. We count on the collaboration of companies and self employed professionals of great quality and prestige in the area, with passion for the craft, vocation for improvement and innovation, to share knowledge and resources and to establish cooperation networks. They are a guarantee in terms of training quality for the participants in the mobilites. They provide both prestige and connections in the sector. We have established the selection mechanisms so the participants meet the adequate requirements for the mobilities to be successful for all parties involved. Also, we have designed the plan of preparation of the participants, communication between the different parties involved in the project, assessment of the processes and results as well as to carry out the diffusion of the actions and achievements, fundamental to ensure success, quality, recognition and prestige. We also have structured, the organization of resources, coordination and decision-making, and the distribution of roles and responsibilities. Leadership and project management will be in hands of the Mobility Commission, constituted by the headmistress team of the Conservatory , the head of the Violin Making Department and project coordinator. We expect an extraordinarily positive impact not only on the students but on all participants and agents involved in the project. In fact, we are already detecting it in the preliminary moves and contacts for mobility. The process of dialogue with partners has created a dynamic of cooperation, involvement in projects of improvement and innovation, sharing of knowledge, in short, a very desired synergy between schools, companies and self employed professionals that will generate interesting and rewarding new projects. All this wanted and wished impact will not happen after these first mobilities are finished but they will lead the way in that direction and in mid-term (2020) we will be in a place we can not even envision at the present moment, as each step is opening new and unexpected doors.

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