Special Funding for Youth Projects

For the 2025/26 concert season, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is offering special funding for musical projects for children and young people.

The funding

This funding is intended to encourage active participation and creativity, fostering an appreciation of musical content in young people. The foundation aims to promote the integration of contemporary and modern music into educational activities, inviting an experimental approach to sound and music. Projects that explore these aspects are especially encouraged. This project aims to reach a broad audience, involving not only those who are already musically inclined. Applications that are open to all segments of society therefore particularly welcome.

Four education projects from the 2025/26 concert season will be selected to receive grants of €25,000 each.

Applications open on December 10, 2024. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2025. Projects can begin anytime from June 15, 2025.

The jury

The jury responsible for the selection process has been specifically assembled for the purpose of this project. Representing the Board of Trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation: Ilona Schmiel and Tamara Stefanovich. Joining them are Rainer Kotzian and Irena Müller-Brozović. Müller-Brozović is a professor of music education and instrumental pedagogy at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. She has directed interdisciplinary and participatory cultural education programmes on behalf of the city of Basel and co-founded taktik – werkstatt für musikvermittlung in Austria. Rainer Kotzian is president of the Nuremberg University of Music, where she is a professor of elementary music education. In 2015, he published the book Musik erfinden mit Kindern (Inventing Music with Children).