One of the deliverables of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy ‘Teacher Education Academy for Music’ (TEAM, 2023-2026, https://teacher-academy-music.eu) is to develop data-based European-wide ‘TEAM Learning Outcomes for Music Teacher Education’ for future generalist and specialist music teachers, working in primary and secondary schools throughout Europe, in diverse teaching and learning environments. These learning outcomes are an offer that can serve as a basis for national and regional curricular work within music teacher education programmes in European countries.

The 2006-2009 EU project ‘music education Network’ (meNet) issued ‘Learning Outcomes (LOs) for Specialist Music Teachers’ and, in 2013, the European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) also published a complementary set of LOs for generalists (Hennessy et al., 2009 & 2013). In this rapidly changing world, the TEAM working group 6 (https://teacher-academy-music.eu/WP-6) had the ambition of formulating a future-proof set of LOs by including societal challenges such as sustainability and democratic education, as well as ‘emergent themes’ such as diversity and inclusion, practitioner research and professional development, global (artistic) citizenship, interdisciplinarity, collaborations, and digitisation (Author 1 et al., 2025). The revision and updating of the existing LOs is now complete. By formulating and disseminating the new LOs we hope to have a long-term impact on the transformation of music teacher education; on initial teacher education as well as continuous lifelong learning programmes for in-service teachers.

In this roundtable session:
(1) we will introduce the new set of TEAM LOs and the process by which they were formulated,
(2) a first critical friend will critically examine the set in light of the conference theme, addressing issues of participation, diversity and social cohesion; and
(3) a second critical friend will comment on and discuss the possible impact of the TEAM LOs on music teacher education, in-service professional development, classroom music, and advocacy.