Peer-to-Peer Training

For individuals:

share&learn. The person that you are sending or that you will host will bring a lot of new ideas with them about project and office management that might help the further development of your own organisation.

motivate. Travelling and getting an insight into other working structures is always a great personal experience. The person you send will come back with a lot of new inspiration.

For organisations or choirs:

reach out. Make known the work of your organisation or choir to the host and in its city, region and country. Use the opportunity to present as many of your activities as possible.

join forces. The host organisation or choir might have a similar political agenda to yours. Why not create a joint action? Your host might have different contacts on the political and cultural level, which may be useful to you.

cooperate. You are developing a cooperation project and looking for partners? This is the perfect opportunity to get to seek partners for your activities. Are you organising an event with another choral organisation. This might be the occasion to visit each other offices and work off-line for a week. Think also about inspiring events and activities that our members are organising, you could use this opportunity to observe the preparatory work or get involved during the event!

• Staff, board or youth committee members or volunteers of a choral or conductors’ organisation
• Choral or conductors’ organisations that are willing to host a person from another organisation
• Conductors who want to visit another choir
• Choirs that are available in hosting a conductors with whom they would like to work

Important:

• The person travelling on the exchange is entitled to reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses, not the hosting partner. In the case of applications from choirs or organisations, we only subsidise the reimbursement of expenses for one person, usually the conductor, the artistic leader or one of the representatives of the organisation.  The funding is not intended for festivals or other organisations to finance the costs of artistic leaders for workshops, ateliers, masterclasses, etc.
• At least one of the parties must be either a representative of a member organisation, or an indirect member of the European Choral Association (a member of a member organisation or a member of the Friends of the European Choral Association) or be based in one of the target countries of our regional development strategy listed below:

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus (no activities in the near future, but long-term planning possible), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Russia (no activities in the near future, but long-term planning possible), Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine (no activities in the near future, but long-term planning possible).

• Funding will cover travel costs up to 300€. Proof of the travel expenses must be submitted.
• Funding will cover accommodation up to 80 EUR per night for max. four nights. The proof of the real accommodation expenses must be submitted.
• Subsistence costs for max five days paid as a flat rate of 30 EUR per day.

You may plan your exchange period for however long you like. The European Choral Association will cover costs for up to five days and four nights.

Please send us:

• Description of your proposal of peer-to-peer training with contact information about your organisation/choir and contact information of your partner organisation/choir,
• a timeline with the programme of the training,
• a financial plan with an estimation of costs.

If you are planning a training in 2024 and would like co-funding, please send your application as soon as possible. The exchange must be finished by 30 October 2024 at the latest. The invitation is open until funds are exhausted.