At the 2025 AEC Annual Congress in Salzburg, IN.TUNE brought together leaders and students from all eight partner universities to show how long-term international cooperation can actively transform higher music education institutions. The panel offered a candid look at how institutions are navigating alliance developments — celebrating progress, addressing challenges, and leading change with purpose. It also highlighted what makes IN.TUNE’s approach distinct compared to other international initiatives, and how AEC members and other institutions in the sector can draw practical inspiration from the alliance’s emerging experiences.

The first in a series of eight national dissemination events within the European University Alliance IN.TUNE was held in Belgrade, hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Arts. Organised within the long-established international conference of the Department of Musicology, Music in Socio-Cultural Turmoil, the event gathered artists, scholars, and students from across Europe to explore music’s role in contemporary society.

Through keynote lectures, concerts, and a wide-reaching panel on innovation and integration, participants reflected on how universities in the arts can connect education, research, and social engagement. The programme included a music performance of Echoes of Resistance, featuring Damjan Jovičin as both composer and performer, and a talk titled The Politics of Open Scores, led by Cristina Cubells (ESMUC).

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.

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.

On 18 September, IN.TUNE will feature on the opening day of the 25th AEC International Relations Coordinators’ Meeting at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, with the first AEC Talk, Charting Currents of Change: IN.TUNE’s Compass for Collaborative Innovation. In it, the Alliance co-Secretary General Tone Jordhus (Norwegian Academy of Music) will share a practical compass for collaborative innovation — how long-term, artistically led cooperation turns internationalisation into everyday impact across our institutions.