Prof. Dr. Jens Knigge

Prof. Dr. Jens Knigge is Professor of Music Education at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Nord University (Norway), where he leads the research group “Music-Related Learning Processes”. He is also Professor II at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) and Professor of Music Education at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg (Sweden). His teaching and research interests include students’ competence development, teacher educators’ mentoring approaches, and the role of digital technology and artificial intelligence in teaching and learning music.

He has 20 years of experience in initiating and managing international and national research and innovation projects funded by German (BMBF, DFG), Norwegian (NFR, HK-dir) and EU (Horizon Europe, Erasmus+) funders, and currently coordinates the Horizon Europe project “dialoguing@rts”. He is a member of the MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, where he co-leads the work package “Creative use of AI in education”. He has conducted numerous empirical studies, published widely in international peer-reviewed journals, and edited several books and journal issues. He is a board member of the Nordic Network for Research in Music Education (NNRME) and has served on the boards of the Norwegian network “music pedagogy in development” (MiU) and the German Association for Research in Music Education (AMPF).
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Within TEAM, Jens led Work Package 4 (Mobility in Music Teacher Education), which developed the Mobility Designer and the guide Prototypical Exchange Study Models.