The Centre’s Mediterranean Forum of Early Childhood Music Education inaugurates in April 2018
its biennial Conference on Early Childhood Music Education in the Mediterranean inviting music
scholars from Europe and around the Mediterranean region and beyond, with strong interests in
Mediterranean rich musical heritage, the young child, early childhood music teaching and learning
in Mediterranean countries, evaluation of music teaching and learning and teacher training and
preparation. The Mediterranean Forum of Early Childhood Music Education activities aim in
raising early childhood music education (=ECME) to the status of a professional specialized subject
in early childhood education and care in the Mediterranean region and internationally and in
improving the quality of music teaching and learning for young children.