New Call for EAS National Coordinators (NCs) 2025-27

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open call for NCs

The EAS announces an open call, among its members, for the position of the National Coordinator, for the years 2025-27, for the following countries:  Austria, Moldova, North Macedonia and Ukraine.

EAS National Coordinator: Role Description and responsibilities

The ‘National Coordinators’ (NCs) represent the EAS at national level. They support music education activities and initiatives in their countries, and they communicate these activities at European level. They may cooperate in this with other representatives of the EAS, primarily with the EAS board members and with the NCs of the other countries.

Contribution to EAS

  • The NCs should be persons who know about EAS, are EAS individual members, who have attended recent conferences and contributed to EAS’s international work.
  • Professional Field: The NCs should strongly be connected in their professional field to music education in schools (e.g. specialized/certified music teachers, music teacher trainers, and university music teachers).
  • Motivation: The NCs are interested and engaged in developing our common European network for music education and help to motivate people and institutions within their country to participate in EAS conferences and become individual / institutional members.
  • Ability to contribute: The NCs should in principle be able:
    • to communicate in English language
    • to join the annual conferences
    • to attend the annual NC-meetings prior to the conferences and report on national developments
    • to keep the country page of the EAS website up to date
    • to support active engagement in Eudamus by teachers, students and communities in the NC’s country
    • to contribute to the newsletter, other aspects of the website and sometimes to international projects.
    • to present in the NC-Symposia during conferences
  • Nominations for SF / DSF from different institutions: The NC should be able to distribute the nomination for the annual Student Fora (Student Forum and Doctoral Student Forum) and nominate, activate participants from her/his country involving a broad range of colleagues and institutions.
  • Contact to national associations: the NC should make / keep contact with the national associations in music education.
  • Country Network: As the ‘National Coordinators’ (NCs) represent the EAS at national level and support music education activities and initiatives in their countries. They should be well connected in their countries and well-known in the music education networks, recognized as good practitioners or well-known scientists in their countries.
  • National EAS-team: The NC should be interested to build up/develop a national team.

Nomination Procedure

  • The EAS board discusses new proposals on basic information about the motivation (personal statement) and the curriculum vitae. It is also possible to include a letter of recommendation. The EAS board makes the final decision.
  • An agreement for the period of two years is signed by the NC, the EAS and the respective institution or association (i.e. university, school, association), in which the NC is involved.

Please send your CV and a (short) “Letter of Motivation” for the position of the NC to ddimitrakoulakos(at)islux.lu (Demosthenes Dimitrakoulakos) until the 31th of March 2026. The selection will be made by the EAS board. All applicants will be informed as soon as is possible.

Upon appointment, an agreement is signed for the period of two years by the NC (2025 – the end of the EAS conference 2026) , the EAS and the respective institution or association (i.e. university, school, association).

Criteria for selection

  • Contribution to EAS: The NCs would preferably be colleagues, who know about the EAS and are EAS individual members who have attended recent conferences and contributed to the EAS’s international work.
  • Professional Field and Country Network: The NCs’ professional field should be strongly related to music education in schools (e.g. specialized/certified music teachers, music teacher trainers, university music teachers) and should be well-known by music education networks, and recognized as good practitioners or well-known scientists in their countries.
  • Motivation: The NCs must be interested and engaged in developing our common European network for music education and help to motivate people and institutions within their country to participate in EAS conferences and become individual / institutional members.
  • English language: The NCs should, in principle, be able to communicate well in the medium of English.