In recent years there has been an ever-increasing demand for culturally diverse music study courses, not only in Germany and Europe but worldwide.
In keeping with the aims of the UNESCO Convention to protect and promote cultural diversity (ratified by the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006) an academic exchange programme is also being developed with partners in Europe and North America, Asia (India, China and South East Asia), the Middle East (focusing on Turkey), Africa and South America.
In response to this need, an international education and research centre was established in Berlin in 2010.