As a researcher, I was part of the TEAM project (Teacher Education Academy for Music) for three years (2023–2026). It was a great time working in Work Package 3: discussing music education in Europe, doing research together, designing concrete learning offers, and testing them in various contexts.

The results are now publicly available on the TEAM website.

To explore the learning offers on democracy, sustainability, and digital music making, visit the OpenMusic Academy (OMA):

Another teaser video:

The research can be found in these publications:

• Stade, P., Buchborn, T., Girdzijauskaitė-Pocienė, J., Houmann, A., Perakaki, E., Rotar Pance, B., Rumpeltes, M., Van Dooren, L., & Widdermann, L. (2026). Music Education for Future-making—Integrating Sustainability, Democracy and Digitalisation through Participatory Design-Based Research. In I. Malmberg, T. Buchborn, & L. Steinmetz (Hrsg.), Future-making, Mobility and Networking in Europe: Impulses for Music Education in School, Teacher Education and Professional Development. Helbling.
• Buchborn, T., Houmann, A., & Stade, P. (in review). Navigating the Post-Digital – Turn Institutional Logics and Sociomaterial Dynamics in Digital Music Practices in Higher Music Education Institutions in Germany. sustain | Journal of Sustainability and Futures in Music Education.
• Buchborn, T., & Stade, P. (2025). „It actually has little to do with democracy“. Everyday theories and implicit knowledge of students in music teacher education on democracy education and participation. In U. Frey-Konrad, V. C. Hofbauer, O. Blanchard, & L. Bugiel (Hrsg.), 46. Jahresband des Arbeitskreises Musikpädagogische Forschung/46th Yearbook of the German Association for Research in Music Education (S. 29–44). Waxmann Verlag GmbH. https://doi.org/10.31244/9783818850715.03
• Perakaki, E., Stade, P., & Rumpeltes, M. (2026). Harmony of Voices: Empowering Democracy in Music Education and Choirs. In S. Chrysostomou, A. Triantafyllaki, & E. Perakaki (Hrsg.), Proceedings of WAAE Summit in Athens: Arts, Nature, Technology, Education: Harmony in Unity (S. 549–550). Department of Music Studies, Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) Press.
• Stade, P., & Buchborn, T. (2025). Green and/or digital transition in music education? Analysis of European policy papers and competence frameworks. Culture, Education, and Future, 3(1), 159–178. https://doi.org/10.70116/29802741100
• Stade, P., Perakaki, E., & Buchborn, T. (in review). Democracy in Music Education: Reflecting on the European Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC). TOPICS. http://topics.maydaygroup.org
• Stade, P., Treß, J., Buchborn, T., Droll, M., Gerland, J., Malmberg, I., & Spieker, B. (2026). Navigating at the Interface of Digitalisation, Sustainability, and Music Education. In L. O’Connell, H. Lawlor, M. Lennon, & M. Gall, Traditions in Transformation (S. 193–210). Helbling.