Ecole de Musique de L'UGDA

Founded in 1984, the UGDA Music School (UGDA-MS) was recognized in 1991 as a foundation of public interest. The UGDA-MS is responsible for music education in over 60 municipalities of Luxembourg (certified music courses) with over 5,500 students enrolled in various music courses. In the field of non-formal education, the UGDA Music School organizes throughout the year numerous vocational and advanced training courses and workshops on the national and international level, as well as bilateral and multilateral exchanges in collaboration with other youth organisers and partners, including the National Youth Service (Youth Ministry) of Luxembourg. The activities of the UGDA-MS are aimed towards residents of Luxembourg and the greater region, as well as residents of other European countries for the international activities. With regard to its social integration and youth policy, the UGDA-MS integrates every year young students in its administration office for an internship of several weeks, as well as numerous young people in the coaching staff of its vocational and advanced music courses. In the past, the UGDA-MS has already welcomed several European volunteers in the frame of the Erasmus+/ Youth in Action programme with the idea that the dynamism and the new and upcoming ideas of young people allow to develop better didactic and tutorial approaches and initiatives oriented towards youth, notably in the field of the new means of communication. The participation in the EVS is challenging for both our organization and the volunteers. As a specialized youth organization, we want to reinforce the professional knowledge of the volunteers by developing their organizational and pedagogical skills and expertise in various domains that could help them in their future professional career. Our work as a national and international promoter of culture, music, folklore, theatre and youth will also allow the volunteers to gain a unique insight into how to develop and elaborate projects, to coach and supervise groups of children and youngsters, and to work in teams, all of this in a multicultural environment. The staff of the UGDA Music School is composed of 2 executive and 12 administrative staff as well as 5 board members and counts some 200 teachers that work all around the country in the different municipalities. The staff members are qualified and experienced to work with youth and children. Volunteers are tutored by the director and a former volunteer of the UGDA-MS, who are experienced persons used to coach young people - either in the frame of youth exchanges or in the frame of internships at our office. In the past, the UGDA-MS already coached seven European volunteers in the frame of the Youth in Action programme (2005, 2007, 2013 and 2014) and Erasmus + (2015, 2016 and 2017).