Dear friends and colleagues,
This newsletter reflects our Association´s broad spectrum of activities, events, projects, and advocacy work, all aiming to renew and further develop Higher Music Education (HME). Enjoy your reading!
At last year´s Congress in Antwerp, the academic paper Musicians as “Makers in Society” written by one of the SMS working groups, outlined the need for a major shift in HME - establishing a continuum between artistic and social purposes. These thoughts have been taken on into AEC´s new Creative Europe Network project, ARTEMIS, which now is on the move. At the upcoming Congress in Lyon in November, key elements of this project will be illuminated and discussed.
We are entering this summer as the terrible war continues in Ukraine. I hope that a way out of the madness will open and that the AEC and our member institutions will find valuable ways to support our colleagues in Ukraine during and after the war.
I wish you all a good summer! We will resume our newsletters in August.
Eirik Birkeland, AEC President
Apart from the AEC’s continuous efforts regarding the situation of members, fellow institutions, students and academic staff in Ukraine, the association has been involved in networking and advocacy activities in Brussels and online.
We are happy to announce that five new member institutions have joined the AEC community earlier in June.
Meet your international colleagues at the AEC Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators 2022: ‘Shaking hands again – Enhancing resilience through internationalisation’.
The 2022 edition of MusiQuE’s Training Workshop for Peer Reviewers will incorporate new training activities on the specific roles of Chair and Secretary of a Review Team.
A joint letter has been addressed to the Editorial Board of the Frascati Manual with some proposed changes for the next edition.
In the framework of the FAST45 project, the Summer School for academics, professionals, students and curious people will take place on 29 August - 1 September.
The TUNE project - Traditional music Undergraduate Network in Europe gathered students and staff from all partner institutions.
The European Silk Road initiative is looking for contributions in the form of artistic and creative projects engaging with this vision.
AEC Events
22-24 September 2022 | Monopoli, Italy + online
Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators 2022
Conservatorio di Musica Nino Rota
9-12 November 2022 | Lyon, France + online
AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 2022
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse
AEC calls its member institutions to host AEC events in 2025
- AEC Annual Meeting for International Relation Coordinators 2025
- AEC Pop and Jazz Platform 2025
- AEC European Platform for Artistic Research in Music 2025
- AEC Congress and General Assembly 2025
AEC - Empowering Artists as Makers in Society
#insideARTEMIS | Work Package 8 is aimed at shaping and implementing fair, inclusive, diverse and gender equal frameworks in Higher Music Education institutions (HMEIs). It is composed by a Working Group and a Task Force, addressing the need to help HMEIs accommodate a plurality of backgrounds, culture, access capabilities, artistic paradigms and aspirations.
