EMU Spotlights #3 2025
Effective Advocacy for Music Schools Part II

Watch the recording of the lounge here: https://youtu.be/MqDanSrKvnM

00:00 Introduction by Olli-Pekka Martikainen
00:28 Introduction by Gilles Lacour, Ministry of Education, Children and Youth Luxembourg
01:47 Presentation by Claude Meisch, Minister of Education, Children and Youth Luxembourg
06:52 The Luxembourgish system for music education by Gilles Lacour, Ministry of Education, Children and Youth Luxembourg
41:35 The Magdalena Kožená Foundation in the Czech Republic, presented by its director Irena Pohl Houkalová

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EMU Spotlights #2 2025
Effective Advocacy for Music Schools Part I

Watch the recording of the lounge here: https://youtu.be/fIZ0qrzCrP8

00:00 Welcome by Michaela Hahn
08:05 Introduction to Advocacy Work by Olli-Pekka Martikainen
19:08 Creativity in Policy Campaign by Taija Lähdetie, Executive Director at The Conservatory Association of Finland
43:43 Preliminary Results of the EMU Survey on Advocacy by Olli-Pekka Martikainen
46:16 Upcoming Events & Farewell by Michaela Hahn

The slides from the lounge can be accessed here: http://www.musicschoolunion.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EMU-Advocacy_Lounge_14.3.2025.pdf

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EMU Spotlights #1 2025
Artificial Intelligence in Music Schools

Watch the session here: https://youtu.be/0-kzujqn7qU
Access the programme and speaker info here.

At the end of 2022, generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) burst onto the public scene with the release of the ChatGPT tool by Open AI. Like the rest of the working world, music professionals became aware of the power and development potential of AI, but also of its limits and risks, raising a large number of sometimes contradictory questions.