There are many signs that a new academic year is underway. New faces in the corridors. Welcome sessions. Induction programs. And, apparently, quite a lot of ASIMUT.

A few weeks ago, our friends at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester shared some pictures from their welcome week with the ASIMUT community. They kindly featured elements of our branding for their student Q&A sessions – including our rather recognizable little “a”.

“New to ASIMUT? We’re here to chat,” read one sign. Another asked: “Seasoned ASIMUT-er? Tell us your gripes,” while students could also stop by to rank their favourite rooms.

We’d like to add our own warm welcome to all the new students joining ASIMUT schools across Europe, the US and Asia – and we look forward to hearing what the students at RNCM and other schools have to say about their experience with ASIMUT.

Meanwhile, the RNCM pictures quickly prompted responses from elsewhere in the community. In Cardiff, new students were having their ASIMUT induction that same day. In Glasgow, IT induction had taken place that morning. “It’s almost like we timetabled it!” came the response.

From there, the conversation naturally moved on to comparing term dates, with colleagues in London, Switzerland and the Netherlands joining in – and discovering who had had to return earliest. In the end, our Dutch friends at Zuyd in Maastricht took the prize with August 31!

It was a small exchange, but one that says quite a lot about the place ASIMUT has in the everyday life of our client schools. For new students, it soon becomes where they check their schedules, find rooms for practice, report absences and generally find their way around school life. And that is precisely why it matters to us that ASIMUT works well for the people who use it every day.

RNCM, who hosted our User Group Meeting in Manchester earlier this year, put it rather well in their presentation:

“ASIMUT is the infrastructure through which people do business together – the structure that enables communication, collaboration, and decision-making. Not an end in itself, but the platform that makes everything else possible.”

Once again, thank you to our wonderful hosts – particularly Jack Trubshaw and Eldad Diamant – for everything they put into this year’s UGM and for continuing to share their experiences with the community.

And that may be our favourite part of the welcome-week exchange: seeing schools compare notes, share experiences and joke about who drew the shortest straw in the academic calendar. It is a small glimpse of the community that has grown around ASIMUT – and one we never take for granted.

Soon, we’ll be opening sign-up for UGM 2027 at AP Schools of Arts in Antwerp, where that conversation will continue in person.

Stay tuned!