Since its birth jazz music as a tradition for knowledge exchange, based on listening and on common practice; its system of skills transmissions and therefore its learning system, is founded on instruments and executive praxis tools and everything is not simply and only acquired through the methods of traditional didactics. A lot of approaches has been made during the passage to the formalization of the teaching of jazz music and still today there are many possibilities of improvement that could lead to a cooperation of national and European institutions regarding the curricula and the teaching methods. In Europe there have been the first degree courses on jazz music during the 70s, but most of the courses we have today has been activated during the last three decades. Some of the most cutting edge European music institutes have developed during the last years specific departments dedicated to the new performance languages and they have set also particular advanced degree curricula dedicated to jazz music. Nevertheless, the guidelines of the various music institutions seem to be disconnected and far from one another, while the characterization of musical language forces the research of new professional specialized persons, coming from more relevant and innovative academic paths, where the stylistic and local diversity is considered as a distinctive added value. In Italy also the diffusion and promotion of specific learning paths for jazz music, inside the academic curricula in many high education institutes, it’s a recent achievement. That’s something that ratifies the acknowledging of the value given to jazz culture, inside the high education learning paths, on one side, and on the other it opens new horizons and developing perspectives for the promotion of jazz music, acknowledging a role of a music genre already rooted in our country, genre that has contributed much, since its beginning, in enhancing the Italian excellence at an international level. It’s in this framework that it’s set the acknowledging by the MIUR in 2011 of Siena Jazz Foundation, the only high education institution in Italy to be specialised exclusively in jazz, and since 38 years a national reference point for the refining, the high qualification, the professional learning and the enhancement of young musicians graduated and professionals in Jazz. Through to the Erasmus+ programme, the Siena Jazz Foundation is now facing a new challenge intended to modernize its educational model. Thanks to the Erasmus+ mobility we are strengthening the international connections, we are intensifying the didactic and artistic exchange and we are enriching an offer of learning model that will be able to attract young musicians and lead them towards an international music market, helping and supporting their own career development and the exchange of different cultures and artistic languages. Inside this framework, the exchange with other Italian and European conservatoires it’s a very important element through which the long term programming strategies can be guided for the promotion and enhancing of jazz music. Thanks to this capital of national and International connections build up through the years by Siena Jazz Foundation, and the acknowledging of its role and specificity inside the European network of institutions and musical and artistic high education institutions and academies (AEC, the European Association of conservatoires, is an example of this, because it represents a sharing and exchanging dialog platform, good to interconnect the various entities of the European high education institutions), it is possible, thanks to the Erasmus+ project, to create an opportunity to build a platform for the exchange and dialog useful to support the developing of solid strategies for the promotion of Jazz music. During this first year the Foundation has realised three mobilities for studies, each during six months, and twenty-one staff mobilities. That’s definitely an important result for an institution that is facing the Programme for the first time; the goal obtained it’s also a signal of the great dynamism of the sector and it’s a proof of the skill of the Foundation in having used the human resources and energies in pursuing the objectives created to realise the project proposed by the National Agency, putting in existence the connections already made and acknowledging in the Erasmus exchange programmes a natural tool of development.