Leading partner institution: Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn
Chair: Marje Lohuaru

• identifies new strategies in arts education concerned with the support of research and the transfer of knowledge in an international context.
• maps practice-based approaches, projects and programmes, pilots an infrastructure for the further development of artistic research and distributes up-to-date information about European policies and programmes in the field of research.
• pilots different models for joint Masters’ programmes, either research or taught, by partner institutions. A European module focusing on ‘the creative practitioner in Europe’, prepared within the previous period, will be piloted and tested in partner institutions and gradually will become independent.
• supports strand 2 identifying and developing the concept for a "teachers’ academy" in 2009.