Music Talks develops social skills and facilitates inclusion through meaningful discussions about music. The project promotes awareness of social issues and uses music as a tool for engaging the youth into active citizenship.The project includes an international study on music appreciation skills among people aged 15-25 linked to their views on socially important topics and describing readiness to take part into building the future society. The second part of the project is developing an innovative learning tool for youth workers, teachers and the youth to be able to facilitate the discussion both in non-formal and formal setting.Some of the engaging factors of the project lie in the use of music loved by youth all around the world, tearing down social and economical barriers and creating a common language for everyone. At the same time, it is important to integrate national and classical music that the target audience, especially NEET representatives, are yet to love and discover, in order to develop appreciation of diverse cultural heritage. It is important to develop our communication skills and the ability to appreciate, integrate and include representatives of different cultures. The ability to appreciate the aesthetic aspects of culture, including music, is proven to raise the well-being of the society. The project provides methodic materials to link the individual cultural experience to that of a group, exchanging viewpoints and growing awareness of being able to influence the processes of the society.Song lyrics, different music genres, diverse cultural influences lead to topics as empathy, social inclusion, active citizenship, equality, personal freedom, justice, fairness and mutual social interaction.The activities of the project include:1) Involving at least 500 participants that are direct beneficiaries of the project, including youth workers and the youth;2) Carrying out a study in each of the partner countries with at least 300 respondents;3) Collecting and sharing examples of good practice in each partner country to incorporate the best elements of music education practices in the development of the learning methods;4) Creating an innovative NFI material that will consist of 10 methods to improve the communication, critical thinking and perception skills of young people and to promote active citizenship through the creative approach of discussing music;5) Testing the 10 methods in online and face-to-face focus groups with at least 25 participants with diverse backgrounds in each partner country;6) Preparing “Music Talks” learning material that will include a summary of the research and description of the methods;7) Preparing a series of video that will include information on the use of methods, advantages and the main benefits;8) Developing recommendations for transfering the learning material to the digital environment;9) Carrying out publicity and dissemination activities for project results, involving popular musicians as ambassadors;10) Implementing, managing, monitoring and evaluating the project.The project partners are: Baltic Regional Fund (NGO, Latvia), Info front - Pilep (NGO, Macedonia), Tava mūzikas skola (music school and platform for innovative music research, Latvia) and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway) with background on music education and youth work, joining their missions to develop an innovative approach that will boost social skills and facilitate inclusion through meaningful discussions about music.To address the growing demand for innovative practices in the digital era, recommendations for transferring project's content and practices to the digital environment will be developed.