Upcoming meetings
2026
17/09/2026 :Online
Management Committee Meeting
Final MC
15-17/09/2026 : Brussels, Belgium
Core Meeting
During this final EarlyMuse meeting, the finalization of publications, procedures for disseminating results beyond the end of the project (October 2026), and strategies for supporting networks were discussed.
14-17/06/2026 : Vilnus, Lituania
Policy briefs and reports on historical musicology - Core Meeting and all WGs
Core meeting and some representatives of WG on the reports and policy briefs
14-17/04/2026 : Ferrare, Italia
Historical musicology and european infrastructures for heritage - All WGs
Data and tools for collecting data are supported by the EU through the Data Space for Heritage and the European Cloud for Heritage. It will be necessary to define as precisely as possible how historical musicology can contribute to the development of these two instruments.
23-26/02/2026 : Vienna, Austria
Historical musicology facing innovation - Core Meeting and all WGs
A large meeting gathering members of the 5 WGs. The meeting will focus primarily on the relationship between historical musicology and innovation. Attention will be given to adopting a forward-looking perspective on innovations, particularly those related to artificial intelligence. How to think a human centered artificial intelligence for historical musicology. The discussion will also consider how these innovations intersect with the cultural and creative industries.
Past meetings
2025
06-08/10/2025 : Paris, France
Final editorial process
Final editorial work on reports and publications of year 3. On: artistic higher education and historical musicology, musicology as data science and heritage science. More or less 200 pages to be published by the end of the year.
02/10/2025 : Online
Management committee, meeting 3
Annual MC meeting
15-17/09/2025 : Brussels, Belgium
CORE Roadmap for 2026
Core meeting + Writing sessions on deliverables
05-07/05/2025 : Athens, Greece
Meeting MG1
Investigation into the professional paths of musicologists in non-academic fields; research on historical musicology in conservatoires.
17-19/03/2025 : Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Meeting WG2 and WG5
Work on the relationship between musicology and the CCIs; paths to integrate early music into the European Cloud for Cultural Heritage.
03-07/03/2025 : Ljubljana, Slovenia
Meeting WG3 and WG4 and CORE meeting
Investigating advanced degrees in creative research: what titles, which kinds of publications are most appropriate?
2024
25-27/11/2024 : Basel, Switzerland
REMA/AEC Meeting
Roadmap of collaboration between the Early Music Network (REMA) and the Association Européenne des Conservatoires (AEC)
15-16/10/2024 : Brussels, Belgium
STSM + Gender equality and dissemination
Publication of the STSM themes for 2025
First draft of a gender equality plan for 2025 and 2026
Coordination of dissemination actions for 2025
18/09/2024 : Malaga, Spain
WG5 Policy brief on historical musicology
Meeting devoted to writing a policy brief on the place of historical musicology in the European Commission’s reasearch policy
18/09/2024 : Brussels, Belgium
CORE meeting
CORE meeting for organising year 2025
22-24/05/2024 : Wroclaw, Poland
WG2 + WG3 + WG4 + MC3 + CORE
WG2: Endangered Musical Sources: Strategies for Safeguarding, Digitization, and International Collaboration.
05-06/02/2024 : Zagreb, Croatia
WG1 + WG5 + CORE
WG5: cultural policy and cultural heritage, EU funding and grant schemes, the division between science and culture at the level of funding stream and policy, and the implementation of policy in practice
WG1: teaching and researching music history in higher arts education establishments in Europe (in particular courses and modules dealing with music history or theory from antiquity till 1900)
2023
01-02/12/2023 : Brussels, Belgium
WG4 + REMA
19-20/09/2023 : Barcelona, Spain
WG3 Meeting on monumental editions
Gather and analyze information on the state of monumental editions in Europe since 2015 and their future (scientific and economic).
11-13/09/2023 : Padova, Italy
WG1 + MC2 + CORE
Annual meeting for reporting on WGs actions.
06/03/2023 : Lisbon, Portugal
WG1 + WG2 + WG4 + CORE
WG1 – During the Working Group meeting the members will focus on data obtained nationally by the partners: problems and examples of good practices, based on that deploy new indicators.
WG4 – To strength the link between academic research, experimentation and performance, and its respective discourses; to propose a shift from the “Historically Informed Performance” model to the “Historically Formed Performer”; Early Music as a tool to (re)discover repertoires and performance practices (vs. a “label of sonority”).
WG2 – Identify the projects and analyze their goals in order to suggest a share vision on how to engage with sources. Contribution to an ontology of musical works that takes into account the diversity of sources. Modalities of action with conservation institutions (national or local libraries, public or private).
13/02/2023 : Barcelona, Spain
WG5 + WG3 + CORE
WG5 – Established a detailed strategy for a new policy making of early music. A critical reading of the new documents produced by Music Moves Europe and Europe Creative will be organised.
WG3 – Analyzing the current situation of the main types of early music editions: from the so-called Monumenta musicae collections or “Denkmäler”, published at a national level, to major early music series, single-composer editions, and other types of early music editions.