This cooperation project with Canada enables young people, their tutors and professional musicians from the EU and CAN to rehearse, perform and work together, learning from each other through the universal language of music. A new composition for orchestra and voices, inspired by the cultures of each country, will be commissioned. Over 2000 different young people will be involved in the project playing and singing together in instrumental and vocal groups in up to 50 performances.Participating ensembles have been inspired by the Venezuelan El Sistema programme. Young musicians and their tutors will perform and make music together, share knowledge and learn how Sistema-inspired projects are adopted and adapted in each country. The particular local community and culture will be taken into account whilst learning from the general principles that apply everywhere. Through music they will learn about important cultural differences whilst also learning what unites us as a human race.Professional musicians will play alongside the young musicians as well as performing to them. The professionals will ‘team teach’ with the teachers, inspiring them, raising expectations and improving knowledge and musical quality. Networks will be established between the young people, their tutors and the professional musicians to ensure on-going communications in between the 7 occasions when the musicians will be physically together in the EU (total: 12 days) and CAN (total: 13 days). Dissemination will be extensive. All sessions will be documented with work posted on YouTube and social media reaching a wider audience throughout the project.A research program looking at the pedagogy of social action programmes through excellence in music will provide on-going monitoring and evaluation as well as a lasting legacy and international dissemination through expert conferences.Partnerships, both transnational and transatlantic, will be strengthened and enhanced through making music together.