Monday,  January 24

I Session 9:00- 11:00 
Chair: Dimitrije Buzarovski

Introductory speech by IRAM’s director Dimitrije  Buzarovski

Frans De Ruiter - Quality Assessment through Accreditation

Jere Humphreys - Influences of Cultural Policy on Education in Music and the other Arts

Simon Young- Cultural Policy and Lifelong Learning

Stefanos Gialamas and Sofia Hilentzaris - Introducing and Promoting Music in a New Environment

Andreas Lorenz - European Network of Cultures – The Wandering and Adventures Have to Continue

Andreas Papastamou - New Tools for Cultural Policy and Music Education in Southeastern Europe: Creating Strategic Partnerships

Break

II Session 11:30- 13:00 
Chair: Frans de Ruiter

Goce Kolarovski - FMU and the Bologna Declaration: Trends and Tendencies

Christopher Caine - Experimential Learning: An Experiment in Conservatoire Training

Dieter Ringli - What Should We Teach Future Musicians in the 21st Century?

Dimitrije Buzarovski - Teaching Music Composition in 21st century - The Kingdom of Loops

Break

III Session 14:00- 15:45 
Chair: Dieter Ringli

Aida Islam - The Non-institutional Forms of Music Education in the Turkish Communities of Macedonia

Ivona Opetcheska Tatarchevska - Macedonian Traditional Dances and Educational Policy in Macedonia (Development Aspects)

Velika Stojkova Serafimovska - The Principles of Building of the National Institution Ensemble for Folk Dances and Songs “Tanec”  - Basic Program Policy

Aleksandar Dimitrijevski - Music Education of Ethnopop Musicians in Macedonia

Dimitrios Vassilakis - Jazz Education Topics: The Need for Jazz Education

Break

IV Session 16:00- 17:00 
Chair: Viktorija Kolarovska-Gmirja

Eleni Novakovska - The Function of Music Libraries in Music Education in Macedonia

Irena Mitevska - The Internet and FMU Students

Tereza Babamova - The Use of the Internet for Self-education by the Students at NOVA Primary and High School in Skopje (Test survey)

Darko Ilievski - Manuals as a Source of Self-education


Tuesday, January 25

V Session 9:00- 10:30 
Chair: Jere Humphreys

Viktorija Kolarovska Gmirja - The Music Experience and Taste of Elementary School First Grade Students in Skopje (pilot research)

Stefanija Leskova - Music Education versus  the Preferences of  Music Genres in the Central Region of Skopje in March-August 2004

Grigoris Zarras - Only Soul

Vesna Maljanovska - Music Presence in the TV Programs of the Five National TV Channels in Macedonia

Break

VI Session 11:00- 13:00 
Chair: Simon Young

Aleksandar Trajkovski - The Role of Personality in Cultural and Educational Policy  (Macedonian post-war music activists)

Julijana Zhabeva - Music Education in Veles (1900-1941)

Tanja Ivanova - EMS “Ordan Mihajlovski Ockata” in Prilep and the Cultural Policy of the Town

Suzana Stojanovska - The Role of the Elementary Music School “Vaso Karajanov” in Gevgelija’s Cultural Life

Closing remarks