Institutional Transformation From Ideas to Impact: IN.TUNE at ELIA’s PIE 2025 in Barcelona

IN.TUNE took the stage at ELIA’s PIE 2025 event in Barcelona this June to show how transnational collaboration creates everyday impact — through joint educational formats, seamless mobility, and capacity building for teachers and students, leading to the institutional change. 

From 4–6 June 2025, IN.TUNE took the stage at ELIA’s Platform Internationalisation (PIE) Annual Meeting The Added Value, hosted by Llotja Art School in Barcelona. Our presentation, “Institutional Transformation Through Transnational Cooperation: The IN.TUNE European University Alliance as a Model for Impactful Collaboration,” drew a full room and a lively Q&A, reflecting strong interest in how European University Alliances can drive real change in higher music and arts education. 

Presented by Martin Prchal and Dušanka Jelenković Vidović, alliance co-Secretary General and administrative manager manager, the session showed how IN.TUNE — Europe’s only European University Alliance in music and one of only two in the arts — uses deep, long-term cooperation to shift practice at programme and institutional levels. IN.TUNE’s four cooperation pillars (Joint education & mobility; Research & innovation; Societal engagement; Alliance governance) were outlined as the scaffolding for change across our eight universities.

A key thread was making internationalisation part of the core, not an add-on. We shared how work packages connect strategy to classrooms and studios—from seamless mobility (including shared low-latency systems for real-time online music-making) to joint educational formats and capacity building such as the Artist as Teacher course. Together, these strands help teachers and students co-create new, transdisciplinary learning experiences that can scale across campuses.

We also highlighted tangible progress: first-year deliverables were completed on time, and 16 new joint educational formats were selected for piloting in 2025–2027 — evidence that coordinated structures can translate quickly into opportunities for today’s students and staff.

The discussion in the room zeroed in on what matters most to university communities: keeping benefits visible for current cohorts while building sustainable frameworks for the long term. That balance — between immediate outcomes and strategic transformation — was a central theme in the Q&A and in our own reflections.

View and download the presentation. 

Learn more about the event and read the full programme here.