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Ever Wider Horizons and Ever Closer Connections – AEC turns 70

This month we get to hear from Bernard Lanskey, Director - Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (AEC Associate Member) talking about AEC’s journey through the years towards becoming a more inclusive and globally aware organisation.

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Shaping the role of the Academic Tutor for inclusive music teaching: highlights from the IncluMusic workshop in Leuven

On 21st September, the IncluMusic partners delivered a workshop titled ‘IncluMusic: a roadmap towards a more inclusive Higher Music Education’, in the frame of the AEC Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators 2023 in Leuven.

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Meet the AEC Advocacy Task Force

This month we have an in-depth look at the work of the AEC Advocacy Task Force.

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Connection, collaboration & co-creation – Ways forward for higher music education – CEMPE Conference

Join CEMPE’s Conference on 2-3 November 2023 at the Norwegian Academy of Music!

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LOST HERITAGE & MUSIC residency in Bulgaria

The residency in Dimitrovgrad focused on visits to dissonant and lost cultural heritage sites, including meetings between inhabitants and artists. Find out more.

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Report of the Reflect & React Conference on Artistic Research

The report of the symposium “Reflect & React”,a remarkable conference on Artistic Research as part of higher music education study courses, is now available.

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Call for 52 young changemakers for “Pop the Vote! Culture on the Ballot” project

Artists, student artists, and/or cultural workers aged 18-30 and based in 14 EU countries are invited to respond to Culture Action Europe+’s call for a project that aims to mobilise citizens using art and culture as tools to enhance political participation. 

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Advocacy News

A lot has happened since the summer: a new EU Commissioner for Culture, cuts in the Creative Europe 2024 budget, report on the implementation of the Creative Europe programme since 2021, response from the Commission regarding our concern about the instrumentalisation of the STEAM acronym in some Horizon calls for projects, and appointment of our CEO as delegate to the EIT Culture & Creativity Policy Club!

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Join the MUSENSE event “Embedding IT & Cyber in Music Training and Performance”

AEC Members are warmly invited to join the free MUSENSE Project event: “Embedding IT and Cyber in music training and performance” which will take place in Corfu (Greece) and online on 6-7 October

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IRC Meeting Wrap-Up

Relive with us this year’s edition of the IRC Meeting which took place in Leuven, Belgium and focused on “Opening Doors: Adopting a More Inclusive Perspective”

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Newsletters

We are keeping an archive the all newsletters we’ve sent through the years.