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The pub­lic music schools of Berlin reach around 60,000 stu­dents of all ages with a range of over 1 mil­lion units of music class­es per year in all 12 dis­tricts. At around 40 of their own loca­tions, the music schools offer extracur­ric­u­lar music edu­ca­tion and cul­tur­al work as well as basic, advanced, and fur­ther musi­cal train­ing. The schools have devel­oped a vari­ety of music class­es for mul­ti­ple tar­get groups. For exam­ple, they col­lab­o­rate with day­care cen­ters, schools, and oth­er edu­ca­tion­al and cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions to pro­vide inclu­sive music lessons for minor­i­ty pop­u­la­tions such as refugees or indi­vid­u­als with dis­abil­i­ties. With a diverse pro­gram of events, the music schools are essen­tial insti­tu­tions for the enhance­ment of low-thresh­old and decen­tral­ized cul­tur­al work.

The ser­vice cen­ter for music schools (szm) is cur­rent­ly being set up under the umbrel­la of the Foun­da­tion for Cul­tur­al Edu­ca­tion and Cul­tur­al Advice. Its goal is to sup­port the pub­lic music schools by help­ing to coor­di­nate the large vari­ety of their music class­es and oth­er activ­i­ties in terms of inten­si­ty, acces­si­bil­i­ty, and qual­i­ty in all of Berlin. Syn­er­gies between the music schools are to be raised while cen­tral ser­vice pro­ce­dures are to be sim­pli­fied.