What are student meetings and what happend in the past ?

Twice a year music therapy students form all over Europe meet each other to get in contact, share experiences, talk about differences in the approaches, to make a lot of music and not at least to enjoy a wonderful weekend together. The meetings take place at a university and are organized by people studying there. On the arriving-friday every school presentates itself in a creative way followed by party, music, finding new and old friends and ... party !

On saturday you can join many workshops about music therapy related topics. And then ? Right : party !!! On sunday is the sad saying goodbye : changing of adresses, jamming one more time all togehter and travelling a long way home looking forward to the next meeting.

Here you can find a look back to passed student meetings.

Vienna, Austria - Mai 16-18 2008
The next trans-european studentmeeting will take place at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Anton von Webern Platz 1).

Here comes the latest invitation note of the vienna students:

Since a few years it has become a little bit quiet around the viennese musictherapy scene, so we decided to do something about that! We want to invite you to the nice city of vienna to join the next music therapy student meeting in may 2008 at the university of Music and Performing Arts. 

We want to tell you all about our program of study, all about the musictherapy-landscape in austria, share and exchange our experiences of trainings and practical works, make music and spend a nice weekend together.

Date: 16 - 18th of May 2008 

Place: university of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria

Costs: 30 bucks

For more information see the Vienna student meeting homepage www.mdw.ac.at/mbm/studentmeeting_musictherapy
Here you find information about accomodation, the program, registration, ect.

You can sign in from 1 of February until 20 of April (1.2.-20-4-2008 We are looking foreward to meet all of you in Vienna !!

Berlin, Germany - September 02, 2007

Next international Studentmeeting comming up!

Dear Students,
The next student meeting will take place at the Student Research Day in Berlin at the 2^nd of September !!! 
It would be great to see lots of you there as Berlin is a great city to visit and the international speakers on the conference are of high standard and well known in the Music Therapy world! 
If you’re interested to come, it would be great if you would let us know by writing to mail@eamts.org so that the students in Berlin know, how many guests to expect!
More information about the student meeting will soon be provided here .

Warm greetings to all of you,

Claudia (EAMTS)

please tell us via email how many people of your school are comming: mail@eamts.org 

Information concerning the Speeches on the Students  Research Day are here

Heidelber, Germany - March 16-18, 2007

We are proud to invite you for the next meeting! Come to Heidelberg to meet students, therapists and to have good time.

Download the program here

registration deadline: 15/03/07

costs: 30 euro

what to take with you: sleeping bag, sleeping pad

contact: info@eamts.org

how to get to the Musictherapy-Institute in Heidelberg (Viktor-Dulger-Institute)

Magdeburg, Germany - June 9 - 11, 2006

- "DECLAREDLY UNDECLARED" -  this is the motto of the next students meeting. Come to Magdeburg for international exchange!

In regard of the shortness of time, the organizers ask for a quick check of the students who like to come. Just send an temporary email to Katrin Kauer (kk.usw@web.de), so she gets a qick idea of how many people are going to come to Magdeburg. For further details about the meeting click here.

Aalborg, Denmark - November 4 - 6, 2005

Read the invitation letter by Kaja Elise and also check their homepage for the meeting: www.geocities.com/mtmeeting.

The pictures from the Student-Conference in Aalborg!!

Photo-album 1
Photo-Album 2
Photo-Album 3
The Evening with Virelai           (link to their homepage)

Vitoria, Spain - July 2 - 4, 2005

There were only 5 participants on this meeting, which is quite sad. What they experienced (having a good time never the less!) and what thoughts they'd like to share you can read here!

Leuven, Belgium - November 12 - 14, 2004

There was another student meeting in November this year! So we decided to travel there, to see the city, the students and to hear some of their knowledge. The workshops were of a great standard, with something for everybody. There was dancing, playing, improvising, learning and some meditation for us. Next to the workshops there was lots to do. There were many games in every free moment, and even a great game-show on saturdaynight!

This weekend was a good example for all of us to see how an organization can make fantastic weekend for European students. Unfortunately, there were not that many students in Leuven, in comparison to the previous weekends, where there had always been up to 100 students! It might have to do with the fact that many European students are waiting for Spain in July, or with the fact that some schools only found out about the weekend just a few weeks in advance.

It shows how important our contact persons are, and that they really do have a big task in organizing the weekends. Without them, there will be no weekends! So, I would like to thank all the contactpersons in spreading the word for us! Please make sure that in your school, someone is contactperson, and that this person is known to be so by the EAMTS and of course in your school!

The EAMTS decided that this time we would do an evaluation of the weekend among all the students who were there. We had discussions about the role of the EAMTS in the weekends. There is a line between helping organizing the weekends, and being involved in organizational parts of it, and helping the students to get some more funding, and in moments of chaos helping them. The EAMTS has decided the following:

We won’t be actively involved in organizing the weekends. We will help where possible, but we won’t take over commissions of the organization.

What we will do is try to keep eye on the standard of the weekends. How are the workshops? In what language does everybody feel happy? How much will the weekend cost? In order to know all these things, we will evaluate the weekends, make reports out of it and we will make a rotating map, with these evaluations from us and with the evaluation and reports from the organization. This map will be given to the next organization.

The Leuven evaluation was very positive, I think everybody agreed that the weekend was very well-organised! People were feeling welcome, Leuven was a great city and we all enjoyed the Kot-madame on the market square. Even though there was only a small group of students, there had been a very high score in the evaluation! Or maybe it was because of the intimacy of the group that the weekend was such a big success!

The EAMTS gave their presentation about the Bosnia-project, and the students were very interested! For us it was very nice to see how the students responded. We had a great time in Mostar, but it’s always nice to hear from others when they see the film.

Anyway, the next meeting will be in Spain, from the 2nd to the 4th of July 2005. Hope to see all of you there!

Brechtje Hallo, conference manager

Also: download the results of the evaluation of the meeting in Leuven and click their official website for the meeting www.musictherapy-belgium.tk

Siegen, Germany - May 14-16, 2004

You can find a report (unfortunately only available in German) and nice pictures on the student pages from Siegen.

Vienna, Austria - November 14-16, 2003

In mid-November 2003, 80 music therapy students from several European countries met up with their Austrian colleagues at the Viennese University of Music and Performing Arts and over the course of three days attended workshops, compared their experiences in the field and intensified the relationships between individual schools.

Railway services were on strike. After weeks and months of anticipation and intense planning, there was turmoil and turbulence for a short time when nearly one-hundred music therapy students tried to make their way to Vienna.

But eventually more than eighty guests from the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Belgium managed to attend the musical opening of the semi-yearly meeting on Friday evening: as a kick-off, Claudia Kettenbach got everybody going with subtle simple songs. Afterwards came the musical presentations of each school - inventive as usual.

Equally music-oriented were many of the workshops taking place all day at Saturday. Other aspects of activity were movement and body-awareness, tips and information for job-beginners, construction of musical instruments and specific topics related to music therapy. A special hands-on experience was provided by Elena Fitzthum who presented all participants with an element from the field of sensitive awareness.

Night life in Vienna included tours to the Christmas market and a specially organised party at the TÜWI on Saturday night: dumplings and curry, beer and wine, music provided by the bands "ghandi´s eye" and "God bless the aircondition" all contributed to high spirits, so that many didn´t arrive at the flats of the hosting Viennese students until the wee hours of the morning.

For roughly two years now, the gathering of the European Association of Music Therapy Students (EAMTS) is an integral part of the student meetings. Agenda items discussed on Sunday morning in Vienna were initiatives to establish a practical music therapy placement in Bosnia and the first-time participation of students at the forthcoming European Music Therapy Congress in Finland (June 2004). Insight into recent developments in the German Association of Music Therapy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musiktherapie, DGMT) were also delivered by their representative.

As a conclusion to the meeting, Karin Schumacher presented the traditional lecture of the meeting. Her speech looked into the subject "Music Therapy. What can be taught - what can be learned?". As a Viennese graduate with thirty years of experience in practice, teaching and research she was able to convey much of her comprehensive knowledge, her music therapeutic attitude and her enthusiasm.

For the summer semester 2004, the Viennese music therapy students hand on the role of the hosting school: the next meeting (May 14-16, 2004) will take place in Siegen, Germany.

Sittard, Netherlands - April 30-May 02, 2003

Amersfort, Netherlands - October 11-13, 2002

Nijmegen, Netherlands - April 26-28, 2002

There is a short report (got the rhyme?) on the student pages from Magdeburg (in German).

Heidelberg, Germany - November 09-11, 2001

Report in German and some pics on the student pages from Magdeburg.

Magdeburg, Germany - May 04-06, 2001

You'll find a report wirtten in German and pictures on the student pages from Magdeburg.

Leuven, Belgium - Autumn, 2000

Vienna, Austria - Spring, 2000