Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education combines artistic, pedagogical and research-based expertise within the disciplines fine arts and music, with a particular emphasis on contemporary forms and practice. Lecturers offer modules for students enrolled in the Bachelor and Masters programmes within the faculties of Education and Humanities, in addition to the minor programme Popular Music Studies and the Early Childhood Music Further Education programme. Public exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events are of great importance within in the institute. These collaborative projects are innovatively developed and presented with and for our students thereby enriching the cultural life of the university.
Main research areas
Research activities
Junior professorship for Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic Practices
Professorship for Arts Mediation
Professorship for Music Education, in Particular Popular Music
Prof. Dr. Michael Ahlers
Professorship of Musicology, in particular Popular Music Studies
Prof. Dr. Monika Schoop
Professionalisierungsprozesse in der ästhetisch-künstlerischen Lehrer*innenbildung
Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Engel, B. (Partner)
01.01.19 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
Posthuman and more-than-human Entanglements in Art(s) Education - Ringvorlesung der Universität Leuphana, Universität Osnabrück und der Universität zu Köln
Kargin-Zahn, F. (Project manager, academic), Zahn, M. (Project manager, academic) & Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic)
28.04.25 → 30.06.25
Project: Scientific event
Popmusik-Didaktik: Zwischen Universität, Schule und Beruf
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
06.08.13 → 15.04.15
Project: Research
Netzwerkbildung im Musiksektor von Niedersachsen - Funktionsweisen und Mechanismen Sozialer Formationen
Dollereder, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
MIDaKuk: Musikalische Interface-Designs: Augmentierte Kreativität und Konnektivität
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Jörissen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Wernicke, C. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.17 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Musical and Auditive Memory Spaces: Remembering the Time of National Socialism in Lower Saxony
Schoop, M. E. (Project manager, academic) & Köhn, T. S. (Project staff)
01.10.22 → 31.05.26
Project: Research
MI-RAP: MI-RAP - Music Industry Resilience Acceleration Programme, Subproject 8
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.23 → 31.10.26
Project: Research
meNet - music education Network
Schormann, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.06 → 12.07.10
Project: Other
MeInSport: Medienpädagogik und Inklusion im Sportunterricht der Grundschule
Süßenbach, J. (Project manager, academic), Greve, S. (Project staff), Krieger, C. (Partner), Günther , S. (Partner), Thumel, M. (Partner), Jastrow, F. (Partner) & Schwedler-Diesener, A. (Partner)
01.03.18 → 28.02.19
Project: Research
MuM 3: Medien im Musikunterricht
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic) & Weber, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 31.03.18
Project: Research