A lobby for German school music
A German Federal Association for Music Education is founded in Leipzig as part of a Federal Congress on Music Education, a professional association for music education into which the Working Group for School Music (AfS) and the Association of German School Musicians (VDS) will merge at the end of the year.
A "long process of collegial cooperation" between AfS and VDS, which was supported by increasingly intensive collaboration at both state and national level, led to the first joint national congress on music education in Weimar in 2012 and has now culminated in the merger.
The new association will "organize music education competitions, award prizes and issue publications" and promote qualified training and further education for music teachers. The strengthening of the subject of music and its teachers, its public visibility and contact with education policy in the federal states, at federal level and with neighboring European countries should "succeed even better than before with a powerful, professionally positioned and member-strong association".
