Music is a universal language and has been used in many ways to bring together people and nations. At present European countries are witnessing a revival in musical talent shows on TV. This shows us that there is still a demand for Young Talents to express themselves in Music. Our project tries to improve their musical, social and digitals skills.* United Schools in Music (USM) is multilingual. We will encourage language learning through the use of four languages with our project dictionary.* USM is a motivator. Because of the possibility of travelling, large scale performances, media coverage and our project DVD students will be attracted to play in a school band. * USM is united. The project actively brings together students from very different parts of Europe and encourages communication in all project languages. We will also include students with low study skills in our project. Teamwork across borders and the use of online Tools, like e-Twinning will increase a variety of skills. * USM is visible and audible. Due to its outcomes (a DVD, online repository for sheet music, website and multilingal participants presentation) the project's ideal and performances can be easily disseminated and therefore reach and touch many other students, schools and communities. We will also produce a set of project results, tailored for the use inside schools: We will compose a project song. All students are invited to bring in their creativity and music talent. We will put special emphasis on the lyrics. They should encourage the students to express their thoughts about culture, livestyle and social issues. This project song and background information will be recorded and published via Internet and DVD. We will also produce multilingual participants presentations with detailed Information about the participating countries/schools including general information, school system, history, music and arts, social life, etc. We will bring all sheet music, including music and video samples of our project participants online. This repository will be taylored for school bands and their needs. The concept of encouraging students with low study skills is nowadays more important than ever. We will gain experience on hot to include these students inside the project. All project results, photos, videos and lessons learned will be published on e-Twinning and Erasmus Plus project result platform, school websites and local press. Our project addresses the topicscreativity and culture: Meeting other project participants from different countries, composing and recording Songs, using different languages is one of the best creativity Boosts we can offer our Young students and teachersEarly school leaving, combaiting failure in education. We will try our best to better understand students with low study skills in order to correct failures in education, open their minds for an open Europe and thus Prevent them from leaving school (too) early.Our objectives support our selected priorities:Especially students with low study skills are in danger of leaving School (too) early. Our Concept will help us to better support these special students in future. Using modern ICT-Tools in a multinational project in a real environment is the best way to really understand the meaning and use of innovative practices in a digital era. All project participants will be suported to learn basic skills during the project. From technical to social, even language skills will be aquiring and developed. All the results will be sustain remarkable for all project participants and the school members during the project and after project end.

"In this project we use the power of music to establish our own inclusive and cohesive European community. We include all kinds of people, with different abilities, disabled, gifted and talented, because everyone must play an active role together to be future citizens of Europe. We bring together Spanish children from the standard primary school, disabled students from Poland and Romania, young gifted and talented musicians from Turkey and adult musicians and members of the Italian association. We found a way to integrate them all and we made them create many new and distinctive things through music. As the understanding of the social, emotional and physical needs of different individuals can vary and especially people with disabilities face the threat of social isolation, we wanted them to acquire a little more social identity, mutual respect and skills needed to interact with other people.Regarding European priorities, the project was based on intercultural experiences such as cultural diversity and international understanding. Teachers and members of the association shared and exchanged their experiences and practices to develop educational and social skills by sharing ideas, tasks, knowledge and materials. The students had abundant opportunities to develop social skills while interacting with each other. That promoted their self-confidence, cooperation and acceptance skills. The participants also increased the use of ICTs. We met special musical instruments that can be developed or produced for people with disabilities.ORGANIZATIONS: CEIN MONTERO DE ESPINOSA; Almendralejo, Spain. (Coordinator) It is an educational center for primary and pre-primary that has approximately 400 students from 3 to 12 years old. Our curriculum is adapted to the peculiarities of our autonomous region and with some characteristic elements such as regional, national and European identity.Isparta Bilim sees Sanat Merkezi (TURKEY). Isparta Art and Science Center is an informal school that offers extra-curricular and educational activities for gifted and talented students to study art and music.Centrul Scolar pentru Educatie Incluziva Cluj-Napoca (ROMANIA). The institution offers educational services for children with severe and moderate intellectual disabilities, learning difficulties and motor problems and autism spectrum disorders.ZESPOL SZKOL SPECJALNYCH NR 8 (POLAND). It is a special school for 210 children from 6 to 23 years old with different types of physical and mental disabilities.Associazione Culturale ""AccordiAbili"" (ITALY): It is a non-profit organization whose main objectives are to develop new technologies that allow people with disabilities to play a musical instrument or engage in any creative activity.The most important activities have been:Show me your rhythm: the partners shared their rhythms and the others played these rhythms.Each partner presented their national anthems.Present your instruments: each partner presented the instruments of their countries.Sing my song with your instruments: each partner sent an original music without lyrics. The other partners wrote a verse in their own language for one of the topics where they shared their feelings.Story of your songs: presentation of a song and its story to the other members and sing one of the songs shared.Show me your dance: presentation of dances and their music and dance steps. These dances were performed and adapted to their own song.The partners made a digital album of traditional dresses.Each partner prepared a video saying ""All we need is love"".Main singers of Folk: each partner presented the most important popular singers of their country and their music.Music has no barriers: prepare a presentation of musicians with disabilities from their countries.My spiritual relaxing music: introduction of relaxing, instrumental or religious music and its instruments.We made use of musical practices in the form of presentations, videos, social networks, advertisements, posters, brochures in order to learn and compare different lifestyles. We also created our own Love and Peace songs and played together during common concerts. In addition to cultural events and public exhibitions, we created an electronic book of our project songs, a calendar and DVD with songs for dissemination purposes.All partners shared the same need to integrate their participants with different types of skills, strengths and backgrounds that enriched the scope of the project. All participants acquired lifelong skills establishing this inclusive society."