Objectives of this group are:

• The development of a ‘Code of Good Practice for Recognition of Student Achievement during Mobility’ with the aim to achieve a European-level agreement on how to deal with recognition issues in higher music education institutions. In this area, the group will cooperate with the working group for Workpackage 1.
• The development and trialing of a methodology for establishing ‘Impartiality Circles’ to facilitate reciprocal external examining arrangements in higher music education.
• The carrying out of case-studies to identify mobility and recognition issues in European joint degrees and propose solutions.

The members of the Polifonia ‘Mobility’ working group are:

• Rineke Smilde (Chair - Prins Claus Conservatorium, Groningen)
• Keld Hosbond (Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Aarhus)
• Ioannis Toulis (Music Department - Ionian University Corfu, Corfu)
• Chris Caine (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London)
• Hanneleen Pihlak (Eesti Muusika - ja Teatriakadeemia, Tallinn)
• Aygul Gunaltay Sahinalp (State Conservatory of Istanbul, Istanbul)
• Maarten Weyler (Conservatorium Hogeschool Gent, Gent)
• John Galea (Università tà Malta, Msida)
• Benedict Cruft (Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong)
• Hannah Hebert (European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), Brussels)