AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 2024

11:00 Coffee break

Facing the Present: Digitisation Scenarios in Higher Music Education

Workshop Overview:

In the rapidly evolving landscape of higher music education, digitisation continues to be a relevant topic – some may describe it as a cloud hanging over us all, which refuses to dissipate. How do we deal with infrastructure, resistant stakeholders, or limited internal expertise?

In this interactive pre-congress workshop, the ARTEMIS Digitisation Working Group aims to provoke solutions and enhance digital capacities through practical activities, with collaboration from EPASA.

Recognising the diverse levels of digital understanding across higher arts education, the workshop has been designed to be inclusive and adaptable, ensuring relevance and engagement for all participants. Through immersive scenarios, attendees will explore possible strategies across competencies, curriculum, stakeholders, and resources, fostering collaborative learning and creative problem-solving within an international community.

Participants will leave this workshop with strategies and resources, driving forward the future of performing arts education in the digital age.

This workshop will be run in English.

Workshop Format:

The workshop will mainly adopt a world café setting, fostering an interactive and collaborative environment. Open dialogue and collective problem-solving will be encouraged, allowing participants to delve into various digitisation scenarios through guided conversations.

Key Focus Areas:

1. Infrastructure & Technological Developments: Examining the technological frameworks and resources required to support digital initiatives in HMEIs. Discussions will cover network, VLE, hardware devices, BYOD policy, AI charter, VR/AR, UX etc
2. Curricula: Exploring the integration of digital tools and methodologies into music curricula. Participants will discuss redesigning courses to incorporate online learning, virtual performance, and digital collaboration, ensuring that students gain the skills they need to succeed in their careers.
3. Teacher Needs: Addressing the professional development and support required for faculty to thrive in a digital environment. Topics will include training programs, peer support networks, and the development of digital teaching competencies to enhance pedagogical effectiveness.
4. Student Profiles: Understanding the evolving expectations and needs of digitally native students. Addressing the varying levels of digital proficiency among students. Discussions will focus on personalizing learning experiences, leveraging digital tools for student engagement, and preparing students for diverse career paths in a digital world. Equipping students with the necessary skills to utilise current technologies, including discussions on the role of AI in music education.

Scenarios for Discussion:

Participants will explore three distinct scenarios, each representing different levels of engagement and enthusiasm towards digitisation:

Scenario 1 – Curriculum/Professors:

• Situation: Full budget and infrastructure available, but teachers lack interest and students lack direction and role models.
• Problem: Encouraging staff development and providing inspiration for students when no one knows how to use the equipment.
• Questions: How to embed digitisation within curriculum and assessment? How to support staff training? How to motivate students?

Scenario 2 – Work within Current Courses:

• Situation: Partial equipment and infrastructure, some teacher competencies, but digitisation is perceived as optional.
• Problem: Shifting staff development and student mindset towards a growth capacity.
• Questions: How to embed digitisation within curriculum and assessment? How to support staff training? How to motivate students?

Scenario 3 – Finding New Competencies to Support and Develop Curricula:

• Situation: Limited infrastructure and budget, but professors and students are very curious and eager to start.
• Problem: Building a supportive community with limited resources; encouraging the sharing of best practices, and balancing competition and openness.
• Questions: How to embed digitisation within curriculum and assessment? How to support staff training? How to motivate students? How to facilitate project creation?

Expected Outcomes:

By the end of the workshop, participants will have:

• A comprehensive understanding of various digitisation scenarios in higher music education.
• Practical insights into best practices and innovative strategies for digital transformation.
• A network of peers and experts to collaborate with on future digitisation initiatives.

Who Should Attend:

This workshop is ideal for leaders and decision-makers in higher music education, including directors, department heads, digital learning managers, IT directors, and curriculum developers and administrators. Participants will benefit from the collaborative atmosphere and the opportunity to co-create actionable plans for their institutions’ digital futures.

Join us for a forward-thinking session that will equip you with the knowledge and tools to lead your institution confidently into the digital age.

11:00 Coffee break

Let your voice be heard

How to ensure influence and create new ambassadors for your cause.

Workshop Overview:

The battle for attention has changed drastically in recent years. While the dynamics of society are becoming more and more complex, politicians and other decision-makers increasingly seem to be forced to speak with one-liners through a range of diverse channels of communication. Often a case affects many different stakeholders and there is increasing competition for resources across sectors.

In this reality, it is a challenge to look after its interests as an educational and cultural institution. Important decisions are often made behind closed doors, and it can be difficult to know how you can actually exert your influence.

This workshop aims to give the participants an understanding of the political decision-making processes and how they can be influenced. Good political advocacy is not based on special talents or secret contacts, but on a systematic effort that can be planned, carried out and followed up.

Attendees will be equipped to create their own advocacy campaign with the help of the new AEC Advocacy Toolkit, which takes users through a series of steps and creates a powerful and targeted plan of action.

This workshop will be run in English.

Workshop Format:

The workshop will consist of several elements and will begin with participants familiarizing themselves with the AEC Advocacy Toolkit. Participants then work in small groups under the guidance of members of the AEC Advocacy Task Force. The task is to prepare campaigns based on concrete cases from the institutions of the participants using a template, and feedback will be given along the way.

Workshop content

1. What is successful advocacy: Background information on advocacy and its development over recent years, including the decisive shift from access and actors to networks and political belongings and the fact that political and public agendas merge.
2. The implementation model: Challenge and idea, Analysis, Objectives and framing, Putting into action and Evaluation
3. The stakeholders: Interests from the sector and the public, the political interest and the business interest.
4. The political process: Agenda setting, the initiative phase, policy formulation, the decision, the implementation and policy change
5. The action plan: Meeting politicians and officials, the media strategy, a presentation, forming working groups or a task force, creating alliances, monitoring
6. The advocacy model of the AEC: AEC acting towards EU on behalf of institutions, AEC in partnerships, AEC supporting institutions in their campaigns at national level

Expected Outcomes:

By the end of the workshop, participants will have:

• thorough knowledge of the elements of an advocacy campaign
• the ability to organize a professional advocacy campaign from scratch
• understanding of political decision-making processes
• the ability to identify partners and opponents and utilize this knowledge in planning the campaign
• get behind expressions such as buffering, bridging, framing and priming

Who Should Attend:

This workshop is designed for senior management and other decision-makers as well as communication officers at all levels in higher music education institutions. Take advantage of the opportunity to prepare a tailored advocacy plan for your own institution and launch it together with your colleagues immediately after the congress

11:00 Coffee break

 

Project Writing Mastery with Real-World Examples: the Creative Europe Opera Out of Opera 2 Project and the Erasmus Capacity Building Project VIETMUS

Join us for an intensive pre-congress workshop on project writing, where you will gain invaluable skills and insights into crafting successful project applications. This practical session will feature detailed presentations of two exemplary projects: the Creative Europe Project Opera Out of Opera 2 and the Erasmus Capacity Building Project Vietmus.

In the first part of the workshop, we will dive into Opera Out of Opera 2, examining the various components of its project application. You will learn about the project’s conception, development, and the key elements that contributed to its successful funding. This case study will provide a comprehensive understanding of the critical aspects of project writing, from initial idea to final submission.

The second part will focus on Vietmus, an Erasmus Capacity Building Project, which will be analyzed through the perspective of an external evaluator. Participants will gain insights into the evaluation criteria and the key factors that make a project stand out. This analysis will offer a unique opportunity to understand the evaluator’s viewpoint and how to tailor applications to meet their expectations.

This workshop is designed to be hands-on, offering practical exercises aimed at honing your project writing skills. Whether you are new to project writing or looking to refine your expertise, this session will equip you with the tools and knowledge to develop compelling and successful project applications.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from real-world examples and enhance your project writing proficiency. Join us and take the first step towards turning your project ideas into reality!

by the ARTEMIS AEC Goes Green WG

by the ARTEMIS Capacity Building WG

The example of the WARM workshop (CM and Orpheus Institute, Ghent), with Peter Dejans, Orpheus Institute, IREMUS, Sean Ferguson, Canada, Leonella Grasso Caprioli, moderated by Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli, EPARM WG

by the ARTEMIS Digitisation Working Group

moderated by David Bahanovich

the results of the ARTEMIS LLL WG, microcredentials and free courses for citizens by CM

by Karolien Dons, Karine Hahn (ARTEMIS Diversity, Inclusion and Gender Equality Working Group) and Monica Vejgaard (EPASA)

with Gretchen Amussen and David-Emil Wickstroem

by (people from IncluMusic tbc), Emilio Piffaretti (CM) and Francesca Innocenti (ARTEMIS Diversity, Inclusion and Gender Equality Working Group)

with Silja Fischer, Keld Hosbond and Anothai Nitibhon

Projects Orchestra InOpera (Opera Penitentiary) and Diamo un La (music in primary schools), with Giulia Antonicelli, Stefania Mormone, Giuseppina Manin, moderated by Malgorzata Sternal

moderated by Finn Schumacker

with Stephan Maddock, Birmigham, Spotify (TBC), Cecilia Balestra, Milano Musica Festival, Gabriele Zanetti ed. Da Vinci, moderated by Marta Raviglia, Pop and Jazz WG

Programme developed jointly with ECSA and EJN, facilitated by Keychange

moderated by Ivana Perkovic

with Salvatore Gioveni and Anna Maria Bordin, moderated by Riccardo Ceni, Milan