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The Nordic Network for Music Education (NNME) is a state-sponsored organization that supports

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of music

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across eight countries in Northern Europe. It includes the 18 institutions in the Nordic and

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states that award professional postgraduate (Master) degrees in the specialized field of

music education Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...

Network activities

Sponsored by the Nordplus program of the

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, for over 20 years the NNME has annually offered an intensive joint Master course for ECTS credits, and supported 'mobility' exchange of music lecturers and Master students across the member institutions, enabling the sharing of research-based knowledge in this field. Founded by Torunn Bakken Hauge, since 2018 it is managed by

David Hebert David G. Hebert (; born 1972) is a musicologist and comparative educationist, employed as Professor of Music at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway), where he leads the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research grou ...

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Western Norway University of Applied Sciences () or HVL is a Norwegian public institution of higher education, established in January 2017 through the merging of formerly independent colleges across five campuses: Bergen, Førde, Haugesund, Sog ...

. NNME multi-year projects have focused on several themes over the years: democratic approaches, sustainability of music, universality of music, and digitization of heritage. The NNME has also produced a book, and various online resources related to musical heritage and music teaching in the NB8 nations.

International collaboration

Notable keynote speakers for NNME intensive courses have included

Alexandra Kertz-Welzel Alexandra Kertz-Welzel (born October 15, 1970) is Professor (highest academic rank), Professor and Chair of Music Education at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. She studied at the Hochschu ...

, Even Ruud, Sandra Trehub, Lucy Green, Thomas Adam Regelski, Randall Allsup, David J. Hargreaves, Marie McCarthy, Lauri Vakeva, Patrick Schmidt, Øyvind Varkøy, Catherine Grant, Bo-wah Leung, Emily Achieng’ Akuno, Juniper Hill, Mara Marnauza, Henrik Frisk, Stefan Östersjö, and Alex Ruthmann. The NNME's institutional coordinators, across the eight Nordic and Baltic countries (

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

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, and

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

), have included notable music education researchers such as Lars Brinck, Cecilia Ferm Almqvist, Goran Folkestad, Eva Georgii-Hemming,

Helga Rut Guðmundsdóttir Helga Rut Guðmundsdóttir is a professor of music education at the University of Iceland School of Education. Education Helga Rut Guðmundsdóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1970. She passed the Icelandic matriculation examination from Menntas ...

, Marja Heimonen, Geir Johansen, Harald Jorgensen, Kai Karma, Kristi Kiilu, Mara Marnauza, Frede V. Nielsen, Fredrik Pio, Heidi Partti, Eva Saether, Ulrik Volgsten, and Maria Westvall, to name a few.Hebert, David & Hauge, Torunn Bakken. (2019)
''Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe''
London: Routledge.

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Music education organizations Nordic organizations Organizations with year of establishment missing {{europe-org-stub

Network activities

International collaboration

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