The aim of MusE was to provide to teenagers the necessary skills and tools to overcome the hardships life puts them through, making them develop resilience. The project has envisaged the use of an innovative methodology, based on the use of music as a support to the development of resilience, due to its ability to evoke, identify and process emotions and due to the fact that it is a common phenomenon that crosses all borders of nationality, race and culture.

OBJECTIVES
The aim of the project was to promote the development of some of the factors that make a person resilient, such as positive attitude, optimism, the ability to regulate emotions, and the ability to see failure as a form of helpful feedback. More specifically, the teenagers involved in the project have developed the following traits:
- emotional awareness and the ability to regulate their emotions
- control over their impulses
- an optimistic mindset
- flexible and accurate thinking
- empathy towards others
- self-efficacy
- a willingness to seek help when needed.
The students experienced a different learning method, that was focused on personal understanding and sharing through music. The MusE project, in fact, had its main output in the production of a Pop Symphonic Poem on the topic of adolescence, in which the lyrics have been composed by the students themselves. They have been involved in engaging and stimulating activities that gave them the opportunity to get in touch with people coming from different countries.

ACTIVITIES
The participants have been engaged in activities based on collaboration and mutual help, as a way of enhancing all the skills and competences resilience consist in. The classroom became an inclusive environment in which everyone was invited to participate and share his feelings and experiences. 

PARTICIPANTS
The project engaged all the adolescent students of the partners schools. Special attention has been given to vulnerable individuals, for example the ones who are experiencing economic hardship or that have behavioural, emotional, family or socialisation problems, the ones that are facing more serious challenges like family breakdown, family illness or death, or bullying, as well as the ones that have learning difficulties or disabilities, or simply more anxious personalities.

METHODOLOGY
The methodology was based on the use of music to promote activities aimed at developing resilience. In particular it was used some approaches and strategies like:
- cooperative learning
- classroom discussion
- brainstorming activities
- use of technology to promote transcultural and transnational communication.

IMPACT AND LONG TERM BENEFIT

The project had an impact on the education system, as it enabled schools to participate in Erasmus+ projects that otherwise would not have had the opportunity.