Features of the Erasmus+ program in the system of training specialist musicians

The article represents an attempt to comprehend the features of music higher education internationalization within the landscape of students’ mobility (exchange) program Erasmus+. The methodological basis of the study, within the framework of an interdisciplinary paradigm, was made up of the leading provisions of the system-activity approach in education, the philosophical concept of human activity as an active form of creative exploration of the world, as well as elements of the theory of soft power. In particular, it is shown that the current state of international music education cannot be interpreted in isolation from objective socio-historical patterns, which reveal themselves in the form of certain trends determined by global processes, in particular, increasingly powerful vectors of soft power.