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AEC – Empowering Artists as Makers in Society (2022-2025) – Creative Europe Network

Higher Music Education (HME) graduates are the makers of tomorrow's musical life. Facing new challenges, such as dealing with the digital shift, climate change, the growing diversity of cultural and societal needs and a labour market under constant dynamic change, they will be tasked with promoting the resilience of artists, musicians and other cultural professionals.

Meet the AEC Capacity Building Working Group

Members

Martin PRCHAL, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands (WG Co-chair)
Lies COLMAN, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands (WG Co-chair)
Stefan HECKEL, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria
Natassa ECONOMIDOU, University of Nicosia, Music Department, Nicosia, Cyprus
Guadalupe LÓPEZ-ÍÑIGUEZ, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Lynsey CALLAGHAN, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, Ireland
Anna SHAPHIRA, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem, Israel
Ingfrid BREIE NYHUS, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway
Celia DUFFY, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Guillermo RODRÍGUEZ, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Javier SORIANO, Pôle Aliénor, Poitiers, France
Linda MESSAS, AEC Office Team (WG Coordinator). Contact here.

Goals

Accompanying institutions in their processes of innovating Learning & Teaching
Revisiting institutions’ rationales, tasks and objectives

Updates

ARTEMIS Clusters (2023-2024)

Based on a call for interest, the Working Group formed five clusters, each consisting of 5 / 6 European higher music education institutions that were engaging in a process of curricular change.
Working Group members facilitate these peer learning platforms, in which all participants share the development of their respective processes and provide peer feedback to each other: all participants were tasked to develop an Action Plan for their curriculum change based on a template provided by the Working Group.
April-June 2024: the 4th meeting of each cluster (out of 5 meetings in total) is currently taking place

Big Book of Questions

The Working Group also investigates themes, trends and challenges which in turn will be implemented in a set of guidelines, reflections and case studies (to be published by January 2025)