Since 2010, AOLF has been running traditional music exchange projects for young people as part of an international network called Ethno. These projects are based on learning music by ear, with the young participants not only attending workshops but also taking it in turns to lead their own. At each Ethno, to facilitate the music exchange process and support the participants there are Artistic Leaders, who are both professional musicians and youth leaders. In 2011, AOLF organised a seminar to pave the way for new partnerships and engage in proactive and productive discussions about this sort of global musical and cultural exchange project. As part of this ongoing process, AOLF has organised training about artistic coaching for 20 participants from 7 European countries, to be held between 29th January and 7th February 2015, in the Paris region of France. The course has been based on the example of the 'artistic leader' role in an Ethno music camp. “Ethnofonik” is a comprehensive, interactive training course aimed at providing the participants with the tools to facilitate the exchange of musical culture through peer-to-peer techniques and learning music by ear. The Ethnofonik course has provided the participants, already experienced musicians themselves who are working with young musicians, with musical and social training, enabling them to become effective artistic coaches on music exchange projects, in various contexts from international exchanges to local musical workshops. Through a combination of participative workshops, group discussions, jam sessions, masterclasses and performances, adopting an interactive approach throughout and a constant reflection and evaluation, the participants have worked on: - Reflecting on and sharing previous artistic coaching experiences together with experimenting specific type of pedagogical approaches offered by the international trainers team; - Understanding the relevance of this type of coaching to encourage active participation of young musicians; - Identifying and improving specific knowledges, skills and attitudes needed in artistic coaching; - Putting tools, methods, techniques and materials into practice in real workshop situations. The results presented during the training to the French audience has been some open rehearsals for school classes, a series of masterclasses on traditional music for young French musicians, designed and run by the Ethnofonik participants and two public concerts by a band formed of all the Ethnofonik participants, performing original arrangements of traditional tunes from the participants' countries. The results after the training will be the online availability of the artistic results recordings and a “guide of good practices” gathering all the tools, methods and techniques used during this training. The long term benefit aimed by this training is the empowerment of the young musicans in the exchange of their culture to foster cultural diversity and tolerance, sense of intitative and entrepreneurship at a large level.