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The Council of Professional Associations is a committee comprising one representative from professional associations around the world.

Council of Professional Associations / Institutional Partner of ISME

The Council of Professional Associations is a partnership open to any professional organisation whose values and aims are consistent with those of ISME. A similar Institutional Partnership is offered to music schools, universities and other teaching institutions.  Benefits include:

  • Mutual promotion of activities and campaigns
  • Access to mutual networks for projects and/or future world conferences
  • Strengthening global collaboration
  • Including information in each other's communications including in delegate packs at the world conferences
  • Opportunity to propose a volume in the partnership strand of the ISME/Routledge book series
  • Featured on the ISME website as an ISME partner and use of a dedicated logo designating this partnership 
  • Providing one representative to the Council of Professional Associations
  • A printed copy of each of the four issues per annum of IJME and access to the online version

To apply to become a professional association partner, please fill this Google Form. In case you cannot access the form, please download this pdf file, fill it and email it to isme@isme.org.

Note: Members of the Council of Professional Associations and Institutional Partners do not have voting rights at ISME. To qualify to vote you must be an individual paying member.

CoPA & Institutional Partners of ISME

The list of ISME's CoPA/Institutional partners as of June 2024 are:

SNo

Country/Region

CoPA / Institutional Partner

Website

1  Australia  Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia www.kodaly.org.au
2  Australia  Australian Society for Music Education asme.edu.au
3  Belgium  LUCA School of Arts https://luca-arts.be/en
4  Belgium  Jeunesses Musicales International jmi.net
5  Bhutan  Music of Bhutan Research Center https://www.musicofbhutan.org/
6  Canada  Canadian Music Educators Association https://cmea.ca/en/
7  Canada  Powell River Academy of Music https://www.powellriveracademy.org/
8  Egypt  Helwan University https://www.helwan.edu.eg/en/faculty-of-music-education/
9  Georgia  V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Georgia) www.tsc.edu.ge
10  Greece  The Friends of Music Society, Music Library of Greece "Lilain Voudouri" www.mmb.org.gr
11  Hong Kong  Hong Kong Post-Modern Orchestra Association http://www.hkpmo.org
12  Hong Kong  The Hong Kong Children's Choir www.hkcchoir.org
13  India  Harmony The Music School https://www.harmony-themusicschool.com/
14  India  Rohan School of Music https://www.rohanschoolofmusic.com/
15  India  NalandaWay https://nalandaway.org
16  India  Vidya Subramanian Academy http://www.vidyasubramanian.com/
17  India  Bridge Music Academy bridgemusic.in
18  India  Musicea Arts and Culture Council www.musicea.org
19  India  Enabling Leadership https://enablingleadership.org/
20  India  Sanskriti Foundation www.sanskritifoundation.in
21  Ireland  Society for Music Education in Ireland www.smei.ie
22  Kenya  Pro Guitar Academy Malindi https://www.facebook.com/PGAmalindi/
23  Kenya  Music Education Research Group - Kenya (MERG-Kenya) www.merg.kenya.org
24  Mozambique  Associação Moçambicana para a Ecaducação em Artes Musicais - SMEAM https://semam.org.mz
25  Nepal  Music Research and Development Forum Nepal www.mrdfnepal.org.np
26  New Zealand  Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa (MENZA) menza.co.nz
27  Norway  Creo - the union for arts and culture www.creokultur.no
28  Philippines  Philippine Society for Music Education https://www.youtube.com/@philippinesocietyformusice2423
29  Portugal  Centro de Investigação em Psicologia da Música e Educação Musical https://cipem.ese.ipp.pt/
30  Portugal  Portuguese Association of Music Eduaction (APEM) www.apem.org.pt
31  South Africa  PASMAE https://www.pasmae.africa/
32  South Africa  South African Society of Music Teachers https://www.sasmt-savmo.co.za
33  South Africa  West Coast Youth Orchestra and Westcoast Music Academy https://wcyo.org.za/
34  Spain  Sociedad para la Educación Musical del Estado Español (SEM-EE) https://www.sem-ee.com/
35  Spain  Unión de Escuelas de Música y Danza (UEMyD) https://www.uemyd.com/
36  Taiwan  Music Educators Association of Taiwan (MEAT) https://musikeducation.wixsite.com/music
37  United Kingdom  Santa Maria Foundation https://www.santamariafoundation.org
38  United States of America  Opera Theatre of Saint Louis www.ExperienceOpera.org

If your organization's details are missing from the above list, please write to comms@isme.org.


 

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