The cooperation between AEC and ELIA has been continuously growing in the past years, and has increasingly manifested in concrete projects and in advocacy actions, such as the Advocacy Advisory Group of the AEC – Empowering Artists as Makers in Society (ARTEMIS) project, where ELIA representatives play a key role in the group’s activities within the AEC network.

Since 2019, Higher Arts Education institutions that are members of both organisations can apply for a 10 % discount on their membership fees with both AEC and ELIA. For members applying for the first time, the discount is available only upon request and is not automatically included in the annual membership invoices.

Institutions that were eligible to get the discount in previous years and would like to apply again are kindly requested to send a confirmation email with the updated number of students for the academic year 2022-2023 to both organisations, as well as evidence of their affiliation to both AEC and ELIA (i.e. membership fee invoice from last year).

Please note institutions that are members of both AEC and ELIA may apply to both offices to require the double membership discount by 1st April at the latest. More information on the application procedure and the conditions are available in this document

Finally, a kind reminder that on Friday 20th January, the AEC membership fee invoice for 2023 was sent out to all AEC member institutions. May we please advise you to check your spam folder and to contact Alfonso Guerra at alfonsoguerra@aec-music.eu should you have any questions.