Netsounds supports innovation of music education within Europe's education and training systems and facilitates the exchange of products, knowledge, and good practices to support the development of this specific and innovative field of research and action.

The Netsounds project explores the future of web-based music education and aims to:

• promote music education through new technologies and social-networking-based tools;
• promote mutual understanding and collaborative synergies among the actors involved;
• share best practices in music education through new technologies and the internet;
• allow educational institutions, centres of research, associations of teachers and students, and industry to be kept informed of new developments in music education through new technologies;
• foster collaboration among both private and public stakeholders in the field;
• raise awareness of politicians in the EU about developments in music education through new technologies. Netsounds addresses the promotion of the pedagogical value of the music/technology binomial within different contexts of education, training and business settings.

Digital competency and creative expression through music are definitely two essential features of the 21st century's literacy. Giving operational tools and knowledge of the educative potential of the music/technology binomial to different actors - both public and private who act in the fields of research and educational and in music production - is an opportunity to:

a) promote the acquisition of key competences for lifelong learning

b) strengthen students' motivation to commit themselves to learning

c) promote links between education and training and the labour market

d) promote links between formal and informal settings.