Participation in EuDaMuS 2026 – Guide for working groups

When is EuDaMuS 2026?

The official European Day of Music in Schools (EuDaMuS) is on 15 March 2026 (a Sunday). In 2026, we will celebrate the fifth edition of EuDaMuS. That is why EuDaMuS 2026 will be celebrated over five schooldays, during the EuDaMuS week: 9-13 March 2026. The online event will take place on Wednesday 11 March, 11:00-11:30 CET.

Who can participate?

Schools, teachers, students, and others who are involved in music education in schools.

How to participate?

Join the EuDaMuS online event on Zoom and celebrate with other schools in an interactive show featuring singing, music-making, and quizzes.

Join the online EuDaMuS event on 11 March, from 11:00 to 11:30 CET on Zoom.
Put the date and time in your calendar now. Registration opens on 12 January 2026.

How to prepare for the online event:

  • Learn the song Together – the anthem of the European Day of Music in Schools – so you can sing along during the event.
  • Tell your students and colleagues what to expect during the online event.
  • Explain to your students, teachers, parents, or local community why music in schools is important.
  • Decorate your classroom – for example with drawings or flags – so others can see which country you are from or what music your students like.
  • Check your internet connection and audio in advance, and make sure your Zoom app is up to date.
  • Add 11 March 2026, 11:00 – 11:30 Central European Time to your calendar.
  • The Zoom meeting will open 15 minutes before the event.

Create a video together with your school, teachers, and students, and share it on YouTube to show what music education looks and sounds like in your school.

Music at my school videos

  1. Create a video together with your school, teachers, and students to show what music education looks and sounds like in your school.
  2. Upload your video to YouTube.
  3. Share the YouTube link via this form (deadline: 28 February 2026).

Some ideas for your video:

  • An interview with students
  • A tour of your music classroom
  • A short performance

If your school’s or national regulations do not allow you to show students in your videos:

  • Create a montage of drawings or other student work
  • Share stories about music in your school via social media.
    Please include these hashtags in posts:#eudamus2026 #musiceducation #europe #europeanday #schoolmusic

Organise a music activity with your students in the EuDaMuS week – for your school or for your local community — and share its success.

Music Activities at Your School or in the Community

  1. During the EuDaMuS week, organise a music activity with your students for your school or your local community.
  2. Share what you organise on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram).
    Please include these hashtags in posts:

    #eudamus2026 #musiceducation #europe #europeanday #schoolmusic

Some ideas for your activity:

  • What? A short performance, presentation, concert, music pub quiz, exhibition of student work…
  • For whom? Classmates, parents, elderly people, local radio station or other media…
  • How to share? As a text, podcast, video (vlog), slideshow, photo collage…

Take part in the EuDaMus 2026 Music Exchange and show your creativity when performing a song by another school in a different country. school.

Prepare a song for another school to perform – and perform the song prepared for you by the other school, preferably from a different country.

Enjoy the exchange videos during the EuDaMuS week (9-13 March 2026). Each day, new videos will premiere – so it might take until 13 March for your video to appear.

Step by step:

  1. Choose and perform a national song that you would like another school to perform. Record it on video.
  2. Upload the video to your (school’s) YouTube channel.
  3. Add the lyrics in the video description.
  4. Include an English translation of the lyrics (if the song is in another language).
  5. Register by 14 November 2025 (extended deadline) via this form. In the form, share your video link and contact details with the EuDaMuS 2026 team.
  6. IMPORTANT: By registering, you commit to completing the exchange.
  7. By 15 November 2025 you will be matched with another school.
  8. Learn the song shared by the other school, and record your own version of it on video. Be creative and make it your own.
  9. Upload your version to your (school’s) YouTube channel.
  10. Share both YouTube links – the original song and your version – via this form by 15 February 2026.

Guidelines:

Please make sure to…

  • …include the lyrics of your song in the video description, as well as the English translation if the lyrics are in another language.
  • …have permission to publicly show the content and people in the video.

Some ideas for your national song:

  • A song by a well-known songwriter or artist from your country (in your native language)
  • A traditional children’s song
  • Your country’s song from the EuDaMuS Songbook and Addendum
  • A piece by a composer from your country

Some ideas for your version of the other school’s song:

  • Translate the lyrics into your native language
  • Include a traditional instrument from your country
  • Perform the song in a different style or genre
  • Combine the other school’s song with a part of a national song from your own country
  • Add traditional dance to your performance

Please note: Depending on the number of registrations, it may not be possible to match every school with a partner school from another country.