Thanks to the sponsors: www.asimut.com The AEC would like to express deep gratitude to the Director Prof. Marco Zuccarini and to Prof. Valeria De Bernardi and the team at the Conservatorio di Musica “G. Verdi” in Turin for their tremendous support in organizing the AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 2019 in Turin 46th AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 7-9 November | Turin, Italy 1 Table of Contents OF CONTENTSTABLE WIFi information .................................................................................................. 1 INTRODUCTION – 'Re-imagining Success?' AEC - Strengthening Music in Society ...................... 5 Music Performances ................................................................................................. 6 PRE-CONGRESS WORKSHOPS ...................................................................................... 8 Pre-Congress Workshop – MusiQuE ........................................................................... 8 Pre-Congress Workshop on Student Engagement ....................................................... 10 ABSTRACTS of the SESSIONS and BIOGRAPHIES of the SPEAKERS ....................................... 11 Plenary Session I – “On Entrepreneurship, Digitisation and Music” Keynote Speech ........... 11 Introducing the AEC Stakeholder Assembly on Power Relations: from systemic inequity to systemic change ................................................................................................ 13 Plenary Session II – Strengthening Music in Society: Priorities and Action - Panel Discussion 14 Parallel Sessions I............................................................................................... 18 1 – Power relations: Issues of equity and positionality ................................................. 18 2 – Digitising Learning and Performing Through Low Latency Techology: the SWING Project and the work of the SMS Learning&Teaching and Digitisation working groups .......................... 20 3 – East meets West, West meets East: Asian and European Perspectives on Building Meaningful International Collaboration .................................................................................. 23 4 – 20 years from the Bologna Declaration – a successful process? Preparing the Ministerial Conference 2020 in Rome .................................................................................... 25 Parallel Sessions II .............................................................................................. 28 1 – Reaching out to Digital Natives Generations: presentations by the Creative Europe Projects „Opera Incanto“ and „Opera Out of Opera“, the “Creating New Opera„ Programme and the SMS Early Childhood working group (ECME) ............................................................... 28 2 - Re-imagining Entrepreneurship: presentations by DEMUSIS and RENEW Projects, the Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation Programme at Reina Sofia and the SMS Entrepreneurship Working Group ........................................................................... 31 3 – Digital Tools to Enhance HMEI's collaborations and offer: examples from Amsterdam Conservatoire, Opera Vision and the University in Bergen ............................................ 34 4 – Successfully International in a Globalised World: discussion based on the Reflection Paper of the SMS Internationalisation and Transnational Mobility working group ......................... 36 Parallel Sessions III ............................................................................................. 38 1 – Discourses on Academisation: How classical music performance teachers are thinking and talking about their professional duty ...................................................................... 38 2 – E-Mobility: Successful Mobility and Recognition through Digital Credentials: the Groningen Declaration Network and the DiploME blockchain solution ............................................ 40 3 – Successful Artistic Research: best practices from EPARM presentations and performances 42 46th AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 7-9 November | Turin, Italy 2 4 – Health and Well-being as pre-condition for success: the Heathy Conservatoire .............. 46 Parallel Sessions IV ............................................................................................. 48 1 – Conservatoires' Leadership Perspectives in the Digital Era: the MOOCs and developments from the INTERMUSIC Project ............................................................................... 48 2 – Consideration of Conditions Affecting Music Study and its Future: a session in cooperation with NASM ...................................................................................................... 51 3 – The music student as successful future agent of cultural management: A session in cooperation with ENCATC, the European Network of Cultural management and policy ......... 53 4 – Re-imagining the MusiQuE Standards for success: your input needed! moderated by MusiQuE - Music Quality Enhancement ............................................................................... 54 Regional Meetings with Council Members ................................................................. 55 Discussion groups on 3 topics – groups organised by mixing AEC regional groups ............... 56 DOCUMENTS FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY .................................................................. 58 Agenda ............................................................................................................ 58 Minutes of the AEC General Assembly 2018 .............................................................. 59 Annual Accounts 2018......................................................................................... 68 AEC Action Plan 2020, based on AEC Strategic Plan 2016-2021 ..................................... 71 AEC: Environmental Sustainable Higher Music Education ............................................. 73 Elections: Candidates Executive Committee ............................................................. 74 Proposal on AEC Language Policy and AEC Translations ............................................... 79 TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE Proposed Membership Fees for 2020 ...................................................................... 81 Matters related to MusiQuE – Musique Quality Enhancement ........................................ 83 Elections: Candidates Council ............................................................................... 86 Final report on Regional Meetings 2018 ................................................................. 101 PRACTICAL INFORMATION ...................................................................................... 123 Relevant Addresses ........................................................................................... 123 Map ............................................................................................................... 123 How to get there .............................................................................................. 124 Taxi Number .................................................................................................... 124 Telephone numbers of the organizers .................................................................... 124 Hotels ............................................................................................................ 125 List of Restaurants ............................................................................................ 126 Other Events in Turin ........................................................................................ 128 What to see in Turin .......................................................................................... 128 Information on Fee Payment AEC Annual Congress 2019 ............................................ 129 The participation fee includes: ......................................................................... 129 Organization .................................................................................................... 131 46th AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 7-9 November | Turin, Italy 3 Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Torino ...................................................... 131 TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE AEC Council ................................................................................................... 131 AEC and MusiQuE Office ..................................................................................... 132 46th AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 7-9 November | Turin, Italy 4 INTRODUCTION – 'Re-imagining Success?' AEC - Strengthening Music in Society Around the same time as this year's AEC Congress takes place, the AEC’s highly successful Creative Europe project 'SMS – Strengthening Music in Society' enters its third year of operation. One might wonder how success is measured, and whether it is appropriate to speak about success for a project which has not yet reached its halfway point. It is easy to claim to be 'successful', but the criteria used to measure this success should be defined. However, one thing seems certain: the SMS Project is capturing the spirit of our time. The issues that it raises address the key questions that will determine the future of the Higher Music Education sector. It is still too early to foresee to what extent the results of the project will contribute to the sustainable strengthening of the social significance of art