IN.TUNE
Innovative Universities in Music & Arts in Europe
Innovative Universities in Music & Arts in Europe - IN.TUNE is the only European University Alliance in the field of music and arts. It brings together eight universities from North, East, South and West Europe striving to deepen their cooperation to bring about institutional transformation and the enhancement of their quality, performance, attractiveness and international competitiveness. In line with the goals set by the European strategy for universities, underlining the important role of higher education in shaping sustainable, democratic and resilient societies, IN.TUNE members are committed to the development of a joint long-term strategy with a strong artistic dimension for high quality education, research, innovation and service to society, becoming a role model for the wider higher education community across Europe and beyond.
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NEWS
11/02/2025
A mirror from The Hague. Insights from an External Examiners’ Exchange
How do we build lasting trust in artistic standards across institutions? This interview follows three teachers from Sibelius Academy – Uniarts Helsinki, who served as external examiners at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in Spring 2025, encountering new evaluation cultures, bold programming and truly holistic final concerts. Their reflections speak directly to IN.TUNE’s ambition to pilot an intra-university exchange of external examiners: inviting partners to take part in one another’s formal assessment processes as a foundation for closer, long-term cooperation in internal and external quality assurance. The goal is mutual, continuous trust in educational quality — while enabling teachers to learn from diverse assessment approaches and informing whether admissions and examinations could be better coordinated across the alliance. Read the full interview to see what this looks like in practice and why it matters for our next steps.
10/31/2025
IN.TUNE in a New Phase: Learning and Teaching Together in the European Universities Alliance
At the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), IN.TUNE is moving from planning to practice — and mdw’s Institutional Alliance Manager offers a front-row view of what this new phase means for teachers, staff, students and partners. From 66 proposals, 16 joint teaching pilots will now roll out across 2025–27 in formats ranging from online courses to blended intensive programmes and longer joint modules, with mdw engaged in ten. Alongside fresh offerings — from socially engaged musicking to immersive sound and creative communication—two joint degree pathways are in development: a modular “Music Master” concept and a renewed, more flexible ECMAster. This concise insight from Veronika Leiner (mdw) shows how ideas are becoming concrete opportunities and how we’re building towards coordinated, sustainable provision across the alliance.
EVENTS
10/26/2025
IN.TUNE in Belgrade: navigating “Music in Socio-Cultural Turmoil” together
A national event with a European horizon
On 30 October, IN.TUNE’s first National Dissemination Event takes place in Belgrade, hosted under the umbrella Music in Socio-Cultural Turmoil (MSCT) – the 17th international conference organised by the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. The purpose is clear and outward-looking: to share results and perspectives from the European University Alliance IN.TUNE with a wider public in Serbia — students, teachers, cultural professionals and policy stakeholders — while inviting a European conversation about how we create, teach and research in music and the arts today.
This Belgrade event is the first in a series of eight national dissemination activities that will unfold across IN.TUNE partner institutions through to 2027. Each one will bring alliance-wide learning closer to local communities, and bring local and regional voices back into the European dialogue.
09/24/2025
AIRE 2025 – Annual IN.TUNE Research in Education Event
Welcome to the AIRE 2025 – Annual IN.TUNE Research in Education Event on 3-4 November at mdw in Vienna!
IN.TUNE unites eight European universities in music and arts in an alliance to forge a joint, long-term strategy for excellence in education, research, innovation, and societal service. The IN.TUNE joint research cooperation activities, the Knowledge Hubs (KH), and Annual IN.TUNE Research in Education Events (AIRE) of IN.TUNE’s Work package (WP) 4, support transnational research collaboration, academic exchanges, and knowledge sharing across disciplines.
During the first AIRE at mdw, there will be contributions from all eight IN.TUNE partner universities, with a focus on enabling discussions, comparisons, and exchange across different practices. The aim is to learn from each other and to foster future collaboration in research, with a particular focus on linking research to education.