The European Research Music Conference took place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona from June 11th to the 13th 2018. It brought together a significant number of the projects funded by the European Research Council that have music as their focus. These projects come from diverse research domains and exemplify the wide variety of high-quality research related to music that is being carried out in Europe. 

The Conference included talks by the Principal Investigators of the projects, plus demonstrations, short talks, and concerts by other team members. It was a great showcase of the breadth of research topics and approaches that are being supported by the most prestigious funding program of the European Commission.

The European Research Music Conference was supported by ERC=Science², which is a Europe-wide communications campaign of the projects funded by the ERC and designed to reach a wide public of specialists and non-specialists in Europe and afar. Around the Conference, a number of other events and initiatives were organized in order to reach the widest possible audiences.