BAIL, Business and Arts Sustainable Innovation Lab, is an interdisciplinary intensive course for students from 9 European universities with different fields of study. The course provides a unique opportunity to present yourself internationally to a potential future professional network, attend a concert, and learn from lectures and group work. The next course will take place in Aarhus in April 2026.
Time and Place
The course takes place from April 19-24, 2026 at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. (April 19th is a travel day. April 25th can be used for the return trip.)
Course Leader from NMH
Credits
Students receive 3 ECTS for participating in the course.
Different Fields of Study Intersect
In the course, performing and creative music students will meet students and professors from various other disciplines such as economics/finance, management, PR/media, social media, fine art, graphic design, fashion, and computer science/technology. NMH students will gain interdisciplinary insight into project development and experience working in networks where others have supplementary competence that we need as performers, composers, conductors, and programme creators.
Introduction Course
Before the course week in Aarhus, an introductory course in blocks will be held at NMH; gatherings with lectures/workshops on career development and rehearsals for the concert in Aarhus. The content will be about concert production combining dramaturgical tools and how to establish as a culture entrepreneur. The focus will be on methods for developing stage projects and how to build value chains with financing. The time and place for these meetings will be confirmed later.
After Christmas, all BAIL students will gather online for a first meeting and a joint presentation of the program.
Project Tasks in Interdisciplinary Teams
During the course week, the students will be divided into interdisciplinary groups to solve a project task. Principles and experiences from innovation and entrepreneurship are presented and the relevance for music and the cultural field is discussed. Raising awareness of the UN's 17 sustainability goals is a central goal for this course.
The other participating institutions are
- LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland
- Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
- Munster Technological University, Ireland
- CBS International Business School Cologne, Germany
- EPHEC, Belgium
- University of Agder, Norway
- NLA University College, Norway
- CEU San Pablo University, Spain
