[1]  Since the dawn of time, in all ethnic groups and beyond any generational consideration, music has incorporated a dimension that preserves nature. So today, this dimension still brings hope.

A Professional Training Issue

Studied and defined in 2015 by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), as part of Green Skills for Sustainable Development, this issue has highlighted elements of study indicating that they were major at the cultural level, the idea being to offer greater attention to this category of skills. This is therefore carried over into the processes of RVA (Recognition, Validation and Accreditation of non-formal and informal learning), in order to enhance this part of experience made up of values and ethical attitudes acquired on-the-job learning.

However, a more spontaneous attention, not only retroactive, can also be given to them in professionalization courses. Proof of this is the eco-responsible approach offered here, resulting from our experience of stage expression, synthesized in 2001 and reinforced thereafter, by crossing it with the scientific resources of acoustic ecology, this field of study that has existed since the 1970s.

So, when the UIL study was published a few years later, our method was reinforced in its usefulness. However, although it found similarities, its own elements of analysis have continued to constitute it, being a field expertise that facilitates intercultural dialogue around environmental realities. Therefore, this method is geared towards a creativity that is sensible, constructive and sustainable, this criterion being moreover central to the educational plan, as indicated in the PISA report (Programme for International Student Assessment, piloted by the OECD).

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