Germany’s Federal Cultural Foundation (FCF) is getting set to provide “an Instrument for Every Child”. The foundation will spend 10 million euros ensuring that all primary school children in the Ruhr region – a total of 212,000 students – will receive an instrument of their choosing and twice-weekly lessons for the next four years. An enormous concert will be held by the school children when the city of Essen and the Ruhr region join Pécs and Istanbul as Europe's Capitals of Culture in 2010. The Foundation “hopes to create a visible example of how cultural education can be realized as a basic provision for society”, and “demonstrate how aesthetic education, the most important resource for conveying our cultural heritage to future generations and strengthening cultural involvement, can be systematically expanded and intensified”. For more information, CLICK HERE