JMI - Jeunesses Musicales International

JMI CONNECT

The JMI is a global network of NGOs that provides opportunities for young people and children to develop through music across all boundaries. The network works for and with youth, on harnessing the power of music to bridge social, geographical styles and cultural divides and on creating an international platform for intercultural dialogue and acceptance.

The network was founded in Brussels in 1945 as an international NGO in order to bring young people together to overcome divisions created by the two World Wars. Today the JMI has 63 members in over 50 countries worldwide with 38,000 local activities outreaching to over 7 million young people.

2017-2020 CREATIVE EUROPE PROJECTS

The JMI aims to become an open, competitive and sustainable network based on learning with a platform that engages local organisations and with networks and operators that are actively contributing to the socio-economic and cultural development of society.

The JMI will focus on four long-term global objectives :

●Connect – expand geographically and horizontally;

●Empower – an open source platform for meeting, exchanging and learning;

●Awake – making people aware of the organisation’s assets and the unique power of music;

●Sustain – providing new evidence based business models of engaging new programmes, new funding and new partnerships across sectors.

The network’s activities will include: membership study visits, training and learning events, workshops and conferences, a staff exchange program, digital tools, awareness raising campaigns, monitoring and evaluation. Crosscutting issues will include: young audience development, migrant integration, cultural heritage and gender equality.