He is a musician, music teacher, educational researcher, and International Doctor of Humanities and Social Sciences from the Public University of Navarra (Spain), participating as a visiting doctoral student at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Finland). Nowadays, he is an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile). His scientific activities focus on sociomusical identities, music education gaps, and human rights education. Also, he is responsible for a Chilean National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development project (2023-2026; grant number 11230492). For further information, please check the following link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-2667

osé Luis Aróstegui is Professor at the Department of Music Education, University of Granada, Spain. He is the coordinator of the research group SEJ-540 of Research in Music Education and PI of some R&D projects sponsored by the European Commission and the Government of Spain, among which: Evaluation of Music Teacher Education Programs in Europe and Latin America (2004-2007); The impact of School Music Education in Spain (2014-2017), Music Teacher Education for the Knowledge Society and Economy (2017-2021) and Transversality, Creativity and Inclusion in School Music Projects (2022-2025), the latter as PI1. He has been a member of the international advisory board of the research project Music Teacher Education for the Future on music teacher education in Norway (2019-2022). He is also a member of the International Advisory Team of the research project "Pilot experience of a musical pedagogy oriented towards human rights education: Proposal of pedagogical guidelines for the initial training of music teachers", in Chile (2023-2026). From these and other researches, he has produced papers published in many indexed journals and publishers, and presented at conferences.
José Luis has been editor-in-chief of the Revista Internacional de Educación Musical (2013-2023; from 2020 to 2023 as co-editor). He has been a commissioner member of MISTEC (Music in Schools and Teacher Education Commission), being its president during the biennium 2010-2012. He was also a member of the ISME (International Society for Music Education) Board from 2012 to 2016.

 Dr Smaragda Chrysostomou is Professor of Music Pedagogy and Didactics at the Department of Music Studies, School of Philosophy, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
She teaches at the Department of Primary Education, School of Education at NKUA. She also teaches at the MA ‘Music Education’ long-distance course at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
She was the coordinator of the Aesthetic Education Committee for the national project "DIGITAL SCHOOL: Specifying a Digital Educational Platform, Building and Operating an Educational Knowledge Base, Adapting and Annotating Learning Objects with Educational Metadata, Building the Infrastructure to Support Exemplary Teaching Practices and the Use of the Participatory Web".

She is the coordinator of the Arts & Culture Committee at the National project ‘Digital transformation and enrichment of educational context’.
She has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of the International Society for Music Education (2016-2020) and also as chair and commissioner for ISME’s Commission for Music in the Schools and Teacher Education (MISTEC).
She is the Director of the Music Education Lab at the Department of Music Studies (musicedulab.music.uoa.gr/)
She is the Director of the postgraduate program (MA) "Music Education in formal and informal environments" (musicedulab.music.uoa.gr/programma-metaptyxiakon-spoydon-pms.html)
Current research interests include: music teacher education, music and arts integration, music curriculum, assessment in the music classroom, digital technology in music education, music learning in formal and informal environments.
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Prof. Dr. Gunter Kreutz studied in Marburg, Berlin, and San Francisco, received his doctorate from the University of Bremen, habilitated at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and has taught systematic musicology at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2008. Psychological, physical, and social meanings of music-making, singing, and dancing among laypeople are at the forefront of his research interests. He is the author and editor of numerous professional publications as well as two non-fiction books. Finally, he is a member of various associations, e.g., German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), European Society for Music Perception and Cognition (ESCOM), reviewer for numerous journals, and founding editor of the online journal Music Performance Research. His research has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Dr. Yannis Mygdanis is a music educator, composer, and educational software designer. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), with a PhD focusing on emerging technologies in music education. He holds four master’s degrees in Μusic Εducation (MMus), Advanced Teaching (MEd), Educational Leadership and Management, and Emerging Technologies (MEdL), and Information Systems (MSc). Dr. Mygdanis has presented at over 40 international conferences, and his work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He has, also, composed music for theater, short films, fairy tales, and children’s songs. Currently, he is the Vice President of the Greek Society for Music Education (GSME) and teaches in the postgraduate program "Music Education in Formal and Non-Formal Settings" at NKUA. Additionally, he teaches undergraduate courses on STEAM education and technology in music education and, also, serves as a Music Educator at Pierce – The American College of Greece.
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Eva Schurig is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Her experiences cover qualitative as well as quantitative research in areas such as mobile music listening, musical activities of young people or hearing health. She is part of the editorial board of the Yearbook of Music Psychology and the journal MAiA.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3710-7966

Rosa M. Serrano is Professor of the Department of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza, Spain, since 2009. PhD in Psychopedagogy from University of Alcalá de Henares and “Extraordinary award” in the music teacher's degree, she teaches in the Degree in Early Childhood and Primary Education, as well as in the Master in Teacher Training. She has worked as a music teacher in Early Childhood and Primary schools for 18 years. Co-editor of the “Revista Internacional de Educación Musical” hosted by ISME as well as co-editor of the “Revista de Educación. Investigación, Innovación y Transferencia” of the University of Zaragoza, she is member of the research groups "Research in Music Education", University of Granada, and "EDUCAVIVA: education and psychological processes", University of Zaragoza. Her most important lines of research are developed in relation to Music Education at different educational levels, as well as teacher training; collaborating in the R&D Research Projects recognised by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain: IMPACTMUS. The Impact of Music Education for Society and the Knowledge Economy; PROFMUS. Teacher Training and Music in Society and the Knowledge Economy; and TCIEM. Transversality, Creativity and Inclusion in School Music Projects. Her concern about the tutoring of university students and the role of ICT in the process is also evident in her participation in Erasmus+ KA2 programmes: E-tutoring: tools and web resources for study and career management; STAR.APP. Student's academic performance: a machine learning approach for risk assessment and drop out prevention; and E-TEAMS: Digital Gamification E-Teams and E-Tutors for Co-careering Project. In addition, her studies on ICT and active methodologies in the music classroom, as well as on music curriculum design, are currently worth mentioning. In all these areas she has several articles and communications in conferences.

Giuseppe Sellari is Associate Professor of Special Education at the Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata. He holds a Ph.D. in Pedagogy, a bachelor’s degree in Humanities, a diploma in Piano, Composition and Choral Conducting and specializes in Music Education, is the author of scientific and educational publications. Conducts research on Special Educational Needs, overcoming barriers to learning and participation from an ecological and inclusive perspective, teacher training, inclusive Music education, and Didactics of Music History. Already Full Professor in Musicology at the State Conservatory of Music, he is co-director of the scientific series Musiche inclusive, Studi sull’Educazione and Musica e Scienze and director of the Specialization course for educational support activities for students with disabilities at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Angeliki Triantafyllaki is Assistant Professor of Music Education, Technology and Teacher Education at the Department of Music Studies, NKUA. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (PhD, MPhil), NKUA (BA), and the National Conservatoire of Athens (Piano Soloist Diploma). She has worked on international and national research projects (UK HEA, European Commission FP7-ICT, Thalis) and has secured competitive funding for individual postdoctoral research (British Academy Visiting Fellowship, Greek State Scholarship Foundation). She serves on committees and editorial boards of international organisations and journals in music education. She has been teaching in HE since 2010 at Masters and Bachelor levels. Her research currently focuses on music teacher education in Europe through participation in the Erasmus+ research project TEAM teacher-academy-music.eu/ An indicative list of publications can be found here: scholar.uoa.gr/a_triant/publications