music archives in the Documentation Centre for Music, a Sonic Residency programme, a critical edition project headed by Christine Lucia and focused on the music of Michael Mosoeu Moerane, and an interdisciplinary forum for popular music studies, IFPOP. Mellon funding further enabled the creation of an online digital publication spaceherri, curated by the writer and film maker Aryan Kaganof. The institute is also host to the Hidden Years Music Archive, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and is an institutional partner of the ‘Cultural relations between Switzerland and South Africa (1948-1990)’ project, located at the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland. AOI has partnered with the University of York on the Newton Fellowship programme, entitled ‘South African Jazz Cultures and the Archive’. As a result of this partnership the institute supervised renowned jazz pianists Kyle Shepherd and Nduduzo Makhathini to become the first recipients of MMus-degrees in jazz studies in the history of Stellenbosch University. The institute is also the institutional partner for the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting, for which it has also received funding from the South African National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS). References External links Research institutes in South Africa 2016 establishments in South Africa Educational institutions established in 2016 Stellenbosch University