Polifonia

Project management

The management of the Polifonia project has been executed by the project Steering Group. Additionally, an external evaluator was appointed to ensure permanent monitoring and evaluation of the quality of the project’s work.

The Steering Group has been composed of a steering group chair, a representative of the contracting institution, the chairs of all working groups and the ‘Polifonia’ Office Team.

The members of the ‘Polifonia’ Steering Group are:

• Pascale de Groote – Chair (Principal Koninklijk Conservatorium – Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium)
• Ester Tomasi-Fumics – Chair of WG1 Curriculum Reform: assessment and standards (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria)
• Peter Dejans – Chair of WG2 Curriculum Reform: artistic research in Higher Music Education (Orpheus Institute, Belgium)
• Stefan Gies – Chair of WG3 Governance: accreditation and benchmarking (Hochschule für Musik Dresden, Germany)
• Gretchen Amussen – Chair of WG4 Lifelong Learning: educating for entrepreneurship (Le Conservatoire de Paris, France)
• Keld Hosbond – Co-chair of WG5 Mobility: recognition, monitoring and joint degrees (Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Aarhus, Denmark)
• Rineke Smilde – Co-chair of WG5 Mobility: recognition, monitoring and joint degrees (Prins Claus Conservatorium, Netherlands)
• Henk van der Meulen – Project contractor (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, Netherlands)
• Martin Prchal – Project contractor (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, the Netherlands)
• Jeremy Cox – Polifonia project coordinator (European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), Brussels)
• Linda Messas – Polifonia project coordinator (European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), Brussels)
• Ángela Domínguez – Polifonia project manager (European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), Brussels)
• Barbora Vlasová – Polifonia project officer (European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), Brussels)

Steering Group meetings