Review on EuDaMuS 26 – the European Day of Music in Schools 2026

The official European Day of Music in Schools (EuDaMuS) took place on 15 March 2026 (a Sunday). In 2026, we celebrated the fifth edition of EuDaMuS. To mark the occasion, EuDaMuS 2026 was celebrated over five schooldays during EuDaMuS Week, from 9–13 March 2026. The online event took place on Wednesday, 11 March, from 11:00 to 11:30 CET.

The day featured an online kick-off event to launch the sharing of videos showcasing what music education sounds and looks like in schools across Europe, unlocking the voices of many students and their teachers.

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. Click here to register.

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.

EuDaMuS 2026 Online Event

Music Exchange activity

EuDaMuS 2026 YouTube channel playlists

EuDaMuS 2026 padlet


Acknowledgements

Many thanks go out to those involved in the preparations for EuDaMuS 2026!

EuDaMuS Team 2026

Communication: Carlos Batalha (APEM, EAS Board), Eduarda Ferreira (APEM) Production: Cynthia Chua (production lead, idea & concept), Marek Sedlacek (quizzes content), Tessa Huisman (video editing). Padlet: Mark Aitchison (lead). Certificates: Nermin Ploskić. Overall coordination: Benno Spieker (EAS board).

Special thanks to
Marina Gall (EAS president) and Samuël Wright (International school of The Hague) and his students for their interview about EAS and  EuDaMuS, and Isolde Malmberg (Music and Performing Arts, Vienna) for allowing the use of the music classroom for recording the interview. Helmut Schaumberger (EAS National coordinator for Austria) for coordinating the music activity as part of the online event. Prya Keet & Cynthia Chua (Dutch music teacher association VLS) for their presentations and enthusiasm during the live event. University of Reading for making the Padlet map possible. ArtEZ University of the Arts (Netherlands) for providing the Zoom-account for the online event. 

Another special thanks to 

All involved in the making of the music activity from Austria (part of the online event), especially Elisabeth Wieland & Max Wies of the Musikpaedagogics department of the Mozarteum University (Salzburg, Austria) for their idea and concept and Max Wies for leading the music activity. David Haunschmidt (Video-Concept, Filming, Editing) and David Laurin Döcker (Sound) of the Digital Media department of Mozeartum University for the video production.

Our thanks also go to
EAS National Coordinators (NCs) for their feedback and regional support, together with their national teams and national music teacher associations. The EAS Board for their overall support and advice. Bert Appermont for the lovely song Together. All who have participated in the EuDaMuS 2026 activities: teachers, students and others involved. Anyone not mentioned here, but who in some way helped make EuDaMuS 2026 a success!

Thank you!