Prof. Dr. Jens Knigge is a full professor of music education at the Faculty of Education and Arts at Nord University (Norway) and leader of the research group “music related learning processes”. His teaching and research interests include students’ competency development, teacher educators’ mentoring approaches, and the role of digital technology in teaching and learning music. At the music department Jens is the contact person for international incoming students. He has more than 15 years of experience of initiation and management of international and national research and innovation projects funded by the various German (BMBF, DFG), Norwegian (NFR, HKdir) and EU (HE, ERASMUS+) research funders – currently he is leading the Horizon Europe project “dialoguing@rts”. He has conducted a large number of empirical studies and published widely in international peer reviewed journals. Jens has edited several books and journal issues and has been a board member of the Norwegian network “music pedagogy in development” (MiU) and of the German Association for research in music education (AMPF).
(More information about Jens can be found on the website https://jensknigge.info)