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“MUSICONNECT – Music as youth empowerment: creating connection to self and others” is a five-year project that renews scientific understanding on why, when and for whom music serves as a resource for growth and well-being. The project promotes the use of the research results in music education as well as in work with children and youth.

“Young people grow in a world that is in many ways uncertain and straining and that requires resources to construct self-regulation and emotional skills, the sense of belonging and positive identity,” says Saarikallio, who works for the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies.

Recent research has highlighted many mechanisms, through which music can evoke emotions and promote social interaction.

The MUSICONNECT project develops methods to measure music’s mechanisms that affect emotions and body. The methods vary from digital ethnography and mobile experience sampling to physiological measurements, psychometrics, musical data mining, machine learning and movement research.

The scope of the project includes extensive surveys, experimental measurements and follow-up research. They help to clarify the presence of emotional and physical impact mechanisms in the musical experiences of young people and test the role of the mechanisms as a factor to explain well-being and growth.

Consolidator Grants support researchers in the middle of careers to consolidate their teams and conduct pioneering research. On this round, the European Research Council granted 313 Consolidator Grants, in total €632 million.

Further information:

Suvi Saarikallio, +358 50 536 1900, suvi.saarikallio@jyu.fi