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Empowering Voices


It was a great pleasure to host a weekend conference in Bergen recently (mid-December 2023) for development of our application seeking EU support for the Empowering Voices project.


The Empowering Voices project assembles a consortium of skilled researchers from diverse academic fields (musicology, sociology, political science, media studies) as well as prominent musicians from an array of minority traditions in Europe and abroad, including Sami, Ukrainian, Syrian, and other Indigenous and refugee minorities. The project consortium includes universities, NGOs, and both media and arts organizations in Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand.


We are excited about this promising project and hopeful it may receive EU research funding.   


We are also seeking funding to extend the Music Talks project in a new direction, which aims through technology-enhanced music activities to empower youth voices toward civic engagement in three regions of Europe: Nordic (Norway), Baltic (Latvia) and Balkan (North Macedonia) youth, ages 15-25.


The image shown above is of one of the most celebrated singers of all time, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.


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