AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 2023

15:00 – 19:30

FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY

Training workshop organized by MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement

Professional development training workshop about quality enhancement and accreditation, mainly for the music sector but potentially open to the other performing arts sectors within conservatoires. The workshop is for current Peer Reviewers as well as students and staff members of (higher) music education institutions – experienced or not – who are interested in becoming Peer Reviewers for MusiQuE in the future, are motivated to reflect on their experience and practice as Peer Reviewers or have a general interest in quality assurance and accreditation in conservatoires.

Coffee Break at 10:40

FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY

Training workshop organized by MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement

Coffee Break at 11:00

• POWER TO EMPOWER: step-by-step to a safer and more supportive learning environment (PRIhME)

•TUNE: Exploring teaching and learning cultures in higher traditional/folk music education in Europe (9:15 -12:15)
• Advocacy Workshop (9:30 – 12:30)
• Empowerment Through Sustainable Connections (EPASA)

B – Studio 4

C – Studio 5

D – Studio 6

Words of welcome by:

• Lies Colman, Director of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague
• Jaap Smit, King’s Commissioner of South Holland
• Michael Wilder, President of NASM (United States)
• Shahanum Mohamad Shah, SEADOM former President
• Alf Richard Kraggerud, Chairman YMTE Young Music Talents in Europe
• Monica Vejgaard, EPASA President & Mimi Harmer, EPASA Vice-President
• Deborah Kelleher, President of the AEC 

In presence and streamed

Introduction by Stefan Gies, AEC Chief Executive

Topic 1 in Conservatoriumzaal

Music Introduction (15 min)

“AI: What does it mean for the future of HMEI and for their concepts of quality?”

moderated by Paul Craenen, Royal Conservatoire The Hague

contributions by:

• Orla McDonagh, MusiQuE
• Miranda Harmer, EPASA
• Ine Vanoeveren, Conservatoire Royal de Liège
• Luc Döbereiner, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen

Conservatoriumzaal

1. The Musician of Tomorrow – a dialogue with Teachers & Students: a conversation on how to raise the bar for digital skills across higher music education, a session organised by the ARTEMIS Digitisation working group and EPASA with Sandrine Desmurs, Mimi Harmer, Håkon Kvidal, and Raffaele Longo, MUSENSE project, and Diana Salazar GLOCODA project – 75 min

2. Learning from each other and empowering HMEIs to empower students: the Mutual Support Platform for Curricular Innovation, with Lies Colman, Lynsey Callaghan, Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, Guillermo Rodriguez, ARTEMIS Capacity Building working group and Marijn Abbink, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, Thomas Besnard Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon – 75 min

3. Bringing internationalisation and quality culture together: an exploration of internationally based quality tools that can underpin institutional international ambitions and enhance quality, with Martin Prchal and Janneke Ravenhorst, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, Linda Merrick, Peter Tornquist, Joe Bowman, SEADOM, Jacques Moreau, Finn Schumacker and Orla McDonagh, MusiQuE– 75 min

4. Power to HMEI! Putting Power Relations Front and Centre, with Deborah Kelleher, Gretchen Amussen, David-Emil Wickstroem, Esther Nass, Mkay Krause, PRIhME; Ankna Arockiam and Steven Faber members of ARTEMIS Gender Equality and Non-discrimination Mainstreaming Task Force– 75 min

       5. Welcoming different music style and aesthetics: Traditional / Folk Music in HMEI, with Silja Fischer, International Music Council, Nod Knowles, European Folk Network, Anothai Nithibon, Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music in Bangkok and SEADOM, Hannes Pries, Pop and Jazz Platform, Katja Thomson, ARTEMIS Diversity working group, moderated by: Keld Hosbond and Claire Michon, AEC Council members – 75 min

2. Studio 1

3. Studio 2

4. Studio 4

5. Studio 5

1. Taking a Global Perspective: organising exchanges and collaborations outside Europe, presentations by Lennaert van Heumen, Dutch Erasmus National Agency NUFFIC, and Jan-Gerd Krueger, Wei Boon Tan, and Melissa Mercadal, ARTEMIS International Relations Coordinators working group, moderated by Abra Bush, College Music Society, United States– 75 min

2A. Launch European University Alliance IN.TUNE – Innovative Universities for Music & Arts in Europe chaired by Deborah Kelleher, AEC President, with Astrid Kvalbein, Norwegian Academy of Music, Diana Mos, National University of Music Bucharest, Emilie Delorme, Conservatoire de Paris, Emilie Gardberg, Sibelius Academy – Uniarts Helsinki, Nuria Sempere, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Ulrike Sych, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Lies Colman, Royal Conservatoire – University of the Arts The Hague, Mirjana Nikolic, University of Arts Belgrade and Martin Prchal, Royal Conservatoire – University of the Arts The Hague – 45 min

2B. Resilient artists – A prevention programme to strengthen the mental resilience of performing artists, Annouk Van Moorsel & Magda Thielemans, Royal conservatoire AP University College Antwerp – 30 min

3. Building a strong internal quality culture by inviting and collecting student feedback: which policies and tools can support this? A session with Miranda Harmer and Natalie Roe, EPASA, Janneke Ravenhorst and Sara de los Campos, Royal Conservatoire The Hague and Jacques Moreau, MusiQuE- 75 min

4A. Exploring Lifelong Learning Opportunities in European HMEIs: empowering growth and transforming education by Esther Viñuela, Kadri Steinbach, Małgorzata Sternal, members of the ARTEMIS Lifelong Learning Working Group and Claire Michon, Pôle Alienor, Poitiers – 45 min

4B Impact Measurement & Management: Proving and improving the impacts of cultural organisations, by Filip Zieliński, Heidelberg University – 30 min

5. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Music Education: An Invitation for Action by KatjaThomson, Karine Hahn, Karolien Dons and Monica Vejgaard, ARTEMIS Diversity, Inclusion & Gender Equality Working Group and Ankna Arockiam, Steven Faber and Alfonso Guerra ARTEMIS Gender Equality and Non-discrimination Mainstreaming Task Force –75 min

2. Studio 1

3. Studio 2

4. Studio 4

5. Studio 5

1. Artistic Research in Higher Music Education: Catalyst for a new relationship between music, education and society? with Rui Penha, ESMAE Porto, Evelyn Buyken, RAPPLab Project, Stefan Ostersjo, REACT Project, Helena Gaunt RWCMD Cardiff, moderated by Stephen Broad EPARM working group – 75 min

2. Strengthening student agency and supporting curatorial practice among students: examples of student-led artistic projects in various institutions with Pablo Traine, Milda Orvydaite, Miguel Pissarra Correia Pinto Varela, Emma Hedrick, Chiara Paganini, students from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, and Natalie Roe, Monica Vejgaard and Mimi Harmer, EPASA – 75 min

3. Enhancing the quality of learning & teaching through sustainable international connections: joint programmes: ECMA, RESONO and EMEM European Master of Early Music, with Veronika Leiner and Johannes Meissl, and NOVO Quartet, mdw Vienna, Luca Dupont-Spirio, CNSMD Paris, Bruno Pereira, Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto, Barbara Willi, Janacek Academy of Music Brno and Danilo Mascetti, Royal Conservaotoire The Hague, moderated by Jan-Gerd Krüger, chair of the ARTEMIS IRC working group – 75 min

4. Toward the green transition in higher music education – panel discussion on green practices at the HMEIs, with Dušanka Jelenković, Maria Kalleitner-Huber, AEC Goes Green Working Group and Esther Vinuela, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, Porter Ellerman, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, Morten Qvenild, Norwegian Academy of music – 75 min

5. Fostering Young Talents: a session on pre-college music education, with Lucia di Cecca, Stefan Gies, Ross Lyness, Balázs Kecskés, Alf Richard Kraggerud, Mattias Lundqvist, Minna-Maria Pesonen, Mario Zecher AEC-YMTE Joint Working Group and Stephan Barratt-Due, Barratt-Due Institute of Music Oslo,Elisabeth Gutjahr AEC ExCom member-75 min

2. Studio 1

3. Studio 2

4. Studio 4

5. Studio 5

 (please see Whova for countries division and rooms)

 Musical Introduction

 Speech by Georg Häusler, Director for Culture, Creativity and Sport in the European Commission (DG EAC)

Q&A moderated by Stefan Gies

 Musical Introduction

Plenary presentations by AEC Member institutions moderated by Deborah Kelleher, AEC President, followed by Q&A with the speakers in the form of “market place”

Conservatoriumzaal

• ARTEMIS Safe Space session – moderated by Ankna Arockiam and Steven Faber
• Advocacy
• Change Management

See Whova for Rooms

Zoom link

Conservatoriumzaal

Announcement of the AEC Congress 2024

Conservatoriumzaal