TAI member Lukas Pairon (also founding director of the international research network SIMM) is on 18th October inaugurating the first academic chair focussing on the role music can play in social and community work, proposing the accompaniment of PhD-research in this field, as well as training for practitioners (musicians and social & community workers). The Academic Chair Jonet and its Centre for Social Action & Music-Making (CESAMM) is an initiative of the Ghent University and University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Info available from October on: www.cesamm.eu