Almost all children attend daycare and primary school, most can use their voice for musical learning - regardless of their respective musical background and socio-economic status. This shows the great potential of singing for an equal, sustainable access to musical education. In practice, however, there is not much inclusive participation in music culture through singing in these educational institutions, because there are too few staff trained in music and the non-specialist music teachers have inhibitions to sing.

With the app "Sing without fear!“ (presented on the EAS Conference 2025, at that time in development), freely available from spring 2026 for mobile phone and smartboard, the educators can train their singing voice and use playbacks as support, both for their own preparation and together with the children.

"Sing without fear!“ is intended to supplement the existing successful training offers, requalifications, etc. by being individually useable at any time and accompanying the educators in everyday professional life, so that they sing more often and better with the children.

After an overview of the background and goals of the app, the participants of the workshop download the free app on their mobile phone and test it. The results will be summarised in the plenary session and made available to the authors as feedback for further development.

The app is intended to help, on the one hand, to overcome social barriers, by singing with as many children as possible, on the other hand, to promote participatory processes: Children and teachers, but also parents and other caregivers, learn the songs together 'at eye level'. Teachers do not have to be vocal role models. Ultimately, students understanding of democracy can be promoted through their participation in music lessons. It should also be used in the training of educators and primary school teachers and in teacher training.