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Erasmus+ Staff Mobility – My Stay at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam

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From 4 to 7 November 2025, I visited the Conservatorium van Amsterdam as part of the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility programme. My first day began with a conversation with Raphaela Danksagmüller, head of the university’s Booking Agency and Lunch Concerts. This agency places students with event organisers all over Amsterdam—for performances in churches, museums, and concert […]

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Four days in Weimar at the 77th Annual Conference of the German Musicological Society 2025

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From 6 to 9 October 2025, I took part in the 77th Annual Conference of the German Musicological Society (Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, GfM) at the University of Music Franz Liszt (HfM) Weimar together with the team from the Austrian Science Fund research project Musician Families: Constellations and Concepts. The trip was funded by the mdw’s

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Between Mountains and Ideas: Reflections from the PEA Conference in Merano

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The journey to Merano already felt like a prelude to the conference itself: first by train to Munich, then by Flixbus winding its way up and down narrow mountain roads, past steep gorges and picturesque villages. The rhythm of the curves and the sudden views of alpine valleys set the stage for what awaited me—a

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Connecting Research, Dialogue, and People: Reflections on the AMPF Conference in Freiburg

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From 23 to 26 September 2025, I had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung und Praxis (AMPF) in Freiburg—an inspiring gathering that brought together around 190 music education scholars, mainly from Germany and Austria, with some contributions from other countries. Supported by the mdw International Mobility Funding for

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Participation and Identity – a BIP Erasmus Programme in Northeastern Finland

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From 30 May to 5 June 2025, I—along with ten mdw students of instrumental and vocal education and of music education—attended the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Cultural and Social Well-Being – Identity and Participation at Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Kuopio, in northeastern Finland. There, we met Finnish, Lithuanian, and German students from these

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“An Impetus for Learning Beyond One’s Own Research Topic”

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A PhD short-term mobility took the three mdw students Caroline Gansterer-Heider, Constantin Luger, and Abigail Wagner to Cape Town, South Africa, for a week in March 2025. Their teacher Evelyn Annuß, Professor for Gender Studies, initiated the research trip. She and mdw teachers Isabel Frey and Philipp Hohmann held classes at the University of Cape

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Impulses from the North

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My Erasmus trip at the beginning of May took me to Copenhagen for two exciting and enlightening days—to a city that can scarcely be surpassed in its diversity, openness, and cultural vitality. Already upon my arrival on Sunday, 4 May, I was able gain an initial impression of the city. It was a special day:

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