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The International Relations Coordinators Manifesto 2020 and Video

The AEC International Relations Coordinators (IRCs) working group has just released its Manifesto 2020 that AEC member institutions are welcome to consult and take as a reference point for their international strategy. The IRCs Manifesto 2020 is a...

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Arts & Society after the Pandemic Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education

In these difficult times of covid-19, culture is under strain and the future of artists is uncertain.  AEC Council member Iñaki Sandoval wrote an article on this topic talking about the challenges and opportunities in higher music educat...

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Folk Music Education conference 2021

The third conference on Pedagogies, Practices and the Future of Folk Music in Higher Education will take place between 17-19 February 2021 in Stockholm, Sweden. The Royal College of Music invites you to three days of artistic, pedag...

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International Competition of Musical Art “Kharkiv Assemblies”

International Competition of Musical Art “Kharkiv Assemblies” will be held online from September 15 till October 15, 2020. The competion is divided  in two categories: “Piano” and “Double Bass”. ...

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Raising awareness about students’ mental health

For a long time, mental illnesses and mental health have been a taboo subject. Even if they are invisible from the outside, mental illnesses can paralyze and incapacitate a human being, who in this condition could find difficult to complete even the ...

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Making music as a risk factor for the transmission of the corona virus

Coughing, sneezing, talking and laughing are said to be the most direct and thus by far the most dangerous forms of transmission of the coronavirus. The virus is not only found in the droplets of mucus or saliva that can enter another person's bo...

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The second LATIMPE Conference on learning and teaching

The second Conference on Learning and Teaching in Higher Music Education organised by LATIMPE took place on 13 and 14 May. LATIMPE is a cooperation project including AEC and the Center for Excellence (CEMPE) at the Norwegian Academy of Music in ...

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Updates on AEC advocacy activities

AEC's advocacy activities were again dominated by the corona pandemic. Compared to the previous month, however, a slight change of focus can be detected. At the beginning, for very understandable reasons, measures of direct financial and infrastr...

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Survey of Popular Music Teaching in Europe

The AEC is happy to present and support the initiative of researchers from Erasmus University in Rotterdam by sharing with you the Survey of Popular Music Teaching in Europe. It presents relevant information to popular music and aims at ...

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Dissemination of the INTERMUSIC project results and the AEC’s digitisation actions

The Erasmus+ INTERMUSIC Project (Interactive Environment for Music Learning and Practising)  has held a workshop entitled “What we learned, what we produced, where we are heading to” at the 2020 Teaching Music Online in Higher E...

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