"Take advantage of this unique selling point"

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Starting signal for the "Stage_2.0: Alsterphilharmonie" project

With its project application "Stage_2.0: Alsterphilharmonie. The stage as a place of artistic knowledge transfer and social participation", the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) successfully positioned itself in the nationwide "Innovative University" funding competition. The project was officially launched on June 19, 2018 with a kick-off event in the foyer of the HfMT, which was also attended by high-ranking representatives from cultural and educational policy.

The HfMT is the only successful arts university in Germany to be among the 48 universities selected for funding in 19 individual and ten joint projects, and will receive additional funding of more than six million euros over the next five years. Quotes from the opening speeches:
University President Prof. Elmar Lampson
"We are grateful and also a little proud that we were able to impress with our ideas for the innovative stage formats of the future. And we are looking forward to the far-reaching development processes and impulses that this program will make possible."
Senator Katharina Fegebank, Hamburg Ministry of Science, Research and Equality (BWFG)
"The HfMT Hamburg is rightly proud of the fact that it has managed to receive the highly endowed funding from the federal-state measure 'Innovative University'. This opens up unimagined possibilities for the technical and artistic development of the university. Now the ambitious vision of 'Stage_2.0: Alsterphilharmonie' - of the stage as a place for knowledge transfer and social participation - needs to be filled with life."
Ministerial Director Matthias Graf von Kielmansegg, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
"Innovations that drive our society forward are not only created in the laboratories, workshops and think tanks of our universities, but also in their rehearsal rooms and on their stages. With "Stage_2.0: Alsterphilharmonie", the Hamburg University of Music and Drama is initiating an intensive dialog on its ideas and developments with the citizens of Hamburg - an approach with a signal effect for other universities from the artistic spectrum. The HfMT is the only university from the arts sector to occupy a special position among the 48 "Innovative Universities". Take advantage of this unique selling point!"
Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu, Project Director, HfMT
"We are particularly pleased about the wide range of project ideas, which bring together very different departments of the HfMT and should thus release new synergy effects: This ranges from the resumption of the webcast and the establishment of a technical innovation laboratory, the expansion of external performance and further education series, an online discourse in musicology and the development of smartphone apps for use in school lessons, to a project in elementary music education that will provide assistance to refugee musicians working with children in Hamburg kindergartens. With numerous offers, we are leaving the protected space of the university and seeking the public in order to enable social participation."
Following the opening speeches, which were accompanied by music, the various sub-projects presented themselves with live artistic presentations and as part of an exhibition.
Detailed information on the "Stage_2.0: Alsterphilharmonie" project can be found at
www.hfmt-hamburg.de/die-hfmt/innovative-hochschule