AIRE 2026 Programme Out Now: Explore Research-Based Education in Action

The programme for AIRE 2026 is now available, ahead of the event on 8-9 April at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. As the Annual IN.TUNE Research in Education Event, AIRE brings together teachers, students, and researchers to explore how research, supervision, and teaching practice inform each other across higher music and arts education. This year’s edition, focused on research education and supervision, offers a rich picture of how research-based education is developed and practised across the alliance. With the event taking place next week, we warmly invite you to explore the programme and discover the range of questions, approaches, and practices that will shape this year’s discussions.

A Rich and Relevant Programme

Across two days, AIRE 2026 addresses themes such as supervision in artistic practice, interdisciplinarity, collective and collaborative supervision, master’s-level supervision, professional practice, intercultural perspectives, and student agency. The programme brings together presentations that show how different institutions approach supervision and research training in practice.

Some contributions show in concrete ways how research-based education takes shape in our institutions. Others explore how students can be involved in wider research environments while developing their own practices, showing how research can become part of learning in direct and meaningful ways. Others look at how institutions can support a stronger progression from master’s study to doctoral research, helping students build research skills, independence, and confidence over time.

The programme also points to the diversity of approaches across the alliance. Topics include supervision in pedagogy practicum, the development of professional identity, collaborative and intercultural approaches to supervision, and ways of supporting projects that respond to social, cultural, or institutional change. Together, these contributions show research in education as something closely connected to teaching practice, artistic development, critical reflection and the everyday realities of learning in higher music and arts education.

Why AIRE Matters: Research-Based Education in Focus

AIRE plays an important role within IN.TUNE by making visible the connection between research, teaching, learning, and supervision across the alliance. In our institutions, research is not separate from education. It is part of how students learn to ask questions, develop methods, reflect critically on practice, and contribute to new knowledge in artistic, educational, and academic contexts.

Annual IN.TUNE Research in Education events offer a space where institutions can share practices, reflect on common challenges, and learn from one another’s approaches to research-based education. This makes AIRE more than a stand-alone event. It helps strengthen the research dimension of the alliance by showing how research is embedded in educational practice: in the way students are supervised, in how research skills are developed, in how curricula evolve, and in how artistic and academic inquiry are supported. For teachers, students, and researchers alike, AIRE offers a valuable opportunity to follow current discussions and engage more closely with the role of research in education within our institutions.

This year’s AIRE programme makes that link especially clear. It focuses on how research education and supervision are approached in different institutional settings, and how they support students at master’s and doctoral levels. The event creates an opportunity to reflect not only on supervision as a structure, but also on the wider cultures of learning and inquiry that shape research in education across the alliance.

For anyone interested in how research is embedded in educational practice in music and the arts, AIRE 2026 offers a valuable point of entry.

Join the Conversation Next Week

With AIRE 2026 just around the corner, this is a good moment to explore the programme and discover the breadth of perspectives it brings together.

Follow AIRE 2026 on 8-9 April and take a look at the programme here.