The project aims to facilitate
the social reintegration of inmates
through the creation of workshops
and music production spaces
related to the artistic world of HIP HOP,
particularly RAP and BEATMAKING

The project aims to facilitate the social reintegration of inmates through the creation of workshops and production spaces related to the artistic world of HIP HOP, in particular RAP and BEATMAKING

Our Objectives

Hip Hop culture has proven to be a powerful means of involvement, awareness, and self-expression
for young people with fewer opportunities all over the world and especially
for those at risk of deviance, already sentenced or on probation.

Support well-being and personal expression

educational and rehabilitation processes of convicted young people through non-formal, musical, and technical education programs in European (and Turkish) correctional facilities.

Improve the skills and intervention models of educators (generally youth workers)

inside or outside of prison to incorporate and expand these music education processes in the criminal justice system.

Stabilise and increase the introduction of spaces/workshops for musical experimentation and production

considering the differences between national criminal justice systems, in correctional facilities, both those for juveniles (up to 18 or 22 years of age) and adults (18 and over).

Increase redemption opportunities for young people

with criminal convictions or on probation, detention or postdetention through the development of occupational, artistic, and technological skills in the hip-hop market.

Offer new professional and job opportunities

to young inmates or former inmates, developing synergies and collaborations with music production and art companies.

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Music for Freedom (M4F) focuses on one of the worst conditions of marginalisation for young people: detention, whether in juvenile or adult prisons.

The long-standing experience of the lead partner and some of its partners in nonformal educational interventions in that environment led to the following proposal: the development of paths of recovery and inclusion for young inmates regarding on one of the most immersive dimensions, the one of musical expression.

The aim of this project is to develop for the first-time not only artistic skills, but also technical ones which will be useful for future employment.

We are a consortium of six partners

coming from 5 different European and non European Countries

36 months to realize our project

In 36 months M4F aims at developing a high-quality training, so as to enable the young inmates themselves to be autonomous
up to the running of a music production and mixing studio and facilitating access
to possible professional outlets even before their release from prison.