EPIC will test and validate new approaches that could be eventually disseminated and implemented at a larger scale, to benefit the mobility of artists in Europe over a generation.

This project is supported by an action plan articulating five main lines:

• A data collection, mapping the career path of former members of auditioned youth ensembles (orchestras and choirs)
• An involvement of the EuroChoir and the World Youth Choir as laboratories for providing new skills through capacity building, active networking with stakeholders and with peers
• The networking of existing and potential National Youth Choirs’ organisers, to exchange best practices and cooperation opportunities. We’ll set up specific ateliers gathering the singers themselves in an international context
• Online capacity building sessions for emerging artists
• Dissemination of the results along events gathering relevant stakeholders.

Collective music making is a powerful tool to bring people and nations together.

As Europeans, we have a duty to foster the circulation of the next generation of artists in a sustainable, systemic way.

The EPIC project is a first milestone along this promising path.

The project is coordinated by the European Choral Association in partnership with:

• JM International

• JSKD – Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities

• Sing Ireland