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AEC Newsletter May 2020

Dear friends and colleagues!

Even if it could be seen as if the worst is over in Europe, Corona still keeps us in a state of emergency. Some things have become routine and new habits have emerged.

We are still paying particular attention to the immediate economic, social and cultural impact of the pandemic, but the question of how the world will look like after Corona and how we can pro-actively contribute to shaping this development is popping up on our agendas. You can read more about this topic in this newsletter.

The AEC office wishes you much strength to deal with the crisis. Stay healthy and don't forget to enjoy spring.

Stefan Gies
AEC CEO

French translation - German translation

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.

Making music: a risk factor for the transmission of the Corona Virus?

A research project studies the risks caused by aerosol dispersion when singing and playing wind instruments in ensembles.

Survey of Popular Music Teaching in Europe

An initiative of researchers from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the survey aims at collecting information on the state of Popular Music Teaching.
Contribute before 15 June!

Opera Out of Opera- The project explained

AEC is glad to present a short documentary about Opera Out of Opera – one of the audience development projects co-funded by Creative Europe and supported by the AEC as a partner.

First results of the second LATIMPE Conference on learning and teaching

On 13-14 May took place the digital LATIMPE conference on the topic: "Students as researching artists - Music, technology and musicianship". The focus was on fundamental attitudes such as reflexivity, musicianship and digital awareness.

INTERMUSIC project results and 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 Education Conference.

Update from the AEC Office Team

Esther Nass, Office and Project Coordinator since October 2017, is leaving the AEC Office at the end of the week to join a social entrepreneurship start-up based in Berlin. In addition to a variety of office management tasks, Esther was in charge of coordinating the 4-year-project Strengthening Music in Society as well as of supporting the Student Working Group. She gave a great impulse to the implementation and running of the project and in particular to the development of synergies between the various working groups.

We are very thankful to Esther for her dedication to and hard work for AEC and for being a wonderful colleague.

From June 1st, Paulina Gut, Project and Events Coordinator since 2018, will take over the coordination of the SMS project. She will be supported by a new Office and Project Coordinator (ongoing recruitment).

AEC Events

We are glad to announce the new dates of the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM): the event will take place in
London on 31 March - 1 April 2021!

Events

24-27
Sep.
2020

Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators (IRCs Meeting); Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo

5-7
Nov.
2020

AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly

More events »

News from the AEC project SMS

We are happy to inform you that the SMS project application for year 4 has been successfully submitted. AEC would like to thank all the Working Group members and the collaborators that are contributing to the project, looking forward to a fruitful final year of the project
AEC Strengthening Music in Society!

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