Dedicated to the theme Music, Health & Wellbeing, this year’s edition of the EFM is exploring how music supports physical and mental health, strengthens resilience, and contributes to wellbeing across society.

What counts as music education? Who counts in music education? Tuulikki Laes connects these questions to democratisation processes, systems resilience, and professional responsibility in and through music education.

Join us for the premiere of a new EMU hybrid conference format taking place alongside the annual European Music School Union meeting, this time in Prague on invitation of our member AZUŠ ČR.

The Board of MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement met in person in Brussels on 22 and 23 April 2026 to discuss and shape the organisation’s future strategic direction.

Applications are now open for the 4th European Music & Art School Symposium, which will take place on 25–26 September at the mdw Vienna, with both in-person and online participation options.

The latest EMU Spotlight Session provided a practice-oriented overview of how schools can initiate and develop mobility projects that enable enriching encounters between teachers and students across Europe.

Dedicated to exploring powerful strategies for promoting the value of music and arts education, this EMU Spotlight Session focusses on effective advocacy for music and art schools.

From 29 May to 1 June 2025, Catalonia became a vibrant meeting point for Europe’s young music community as more than 4,000 young musicians from 18 countries gathered for the 15th European Youth Music Festival.

For the third time, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, together with KOMU and EMU, organised the European Music School Symposium (EMSS).