CC-ECME is a new Erasmus+ project (2025–2028) coordinated by the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna together with partners from Luxembourg, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, and EMU. The project sees Early Childhood Music Education as a key driver for inclusion and equal access to music and education and cultural participation.
Within the project, EMU plays an important role in connecting the results to music and arts schools across Europe and ensuring that the resources and advocacy tools are useful and relevant for members.
For EMU members, the project will create both practical resources and stronger advocacy tools that can be used at European, national, regional, and local level.
One of the main goals of the project is to strengthen EMU’s advocacy work for Early Childhood Music Education across Europe. To support this, the project will develop an advocacy kit with key messages, arguments, examples, and materials that members can use in discussions with ministries, municipalities, schools, decision-makers, and other partners.
At the same time, CC-ECME will create a wide range of practical resources for music and arts schools. These will include examples, methods, and tested approaches from different European countries, helping members learn from each other and adapt ideas to their own national contexts. Planned outputs include a European ECME report, evidence-based recommendations, and a modular capacity-building seminar.
The project also responds to some of the most important challenges in Early Childhood Music Education today: unequal access across Europe, a lack of qualified teachers, and limited cooperation between music schools, kindergartens, primary schools, and community organisations. One important aim is therefore to strengthen partnerships and make music and arts schools stronger local actors within their communities.
CC-ECME also builds on EMU’s previous work in ECME, including the SMS guidebook, webinars, and seminars in Hungary and Luxembourg. These experiences will now be brought together in a modular and hybrid seminar framework that can be adapted to the needs, traditions, and priorities of different countries.
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