How to develop a Joint Programme in Music

This handbook is written to support conservatoires that are planning to jointly develop a (Masters) study programme with several European partners. During the period October 2006 – October 2009, the Joint Music Master for New Audiences and Innovative Practice is being developed with five European conservatoires with support from the ERASMUS Programme of the EU2. We would like to share the extensive experience we have gained with developing a brand new joint curriculum, dealing with several seemingly unsolvable quality assurance issues and managing a steering group and two working groups in a fascinating process of collaboration, increasing ownership and the development of the programme in time. By writing down our working process and the challenges we have faced and dealt with, we are hoping that future joint curriculum development projects do not have to reinvent the wheel or start from scratch.