Projects Supported by EU Programmes

 

Projects supported by the EU’s Creative Europe Culture programme

HEMI (The Hub for the Exchange of Music Innovation)

Lead organisation: Technopolis City of Athens (Greece)

Partners: Asociatia Romanian Artists Worldwide (Romania), Dunagentsys Kereskedelmi Es Szolgaltato Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag (Hungary), Foundation Exit (Serbia), Fundacja Krakowska Scena Muzyczna (Poland), IDU –⁠ Soundczech (Czech Republic), Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe (Poland), Mittetulundusuhing Music Estonia (Estonia), Password Production Doo Skopje (North Macedonia), Sigic - Slovenski Glasbenoinformacijski Center (Slovenia)

Description: The project includes ten partner organisations from ten Eastern European countries from the Baltic to the Balkans. The range of participating organisations is diverse, including public and private organisations, associations, festivals, event agencies, export offices and schools. The project’s goal over the next four years is to strengthen and increase the visibility of the music industry in the CSEE region through programs for musicians and professionals, information portals and participation in European music events. 

 

ESNS Exchange

Lead organisation: ESNS (Netherlands)

Partners: The Euroradio, The Centre national de la musique (France), Gre.ex Music (Greece), Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Spain), Initiative Musik (Germany), Italia Music Export (Italy), Kultur | LX (Luxembourg), LaLa Slovak Music Export (Slovakia), Lithuanian Music Business Association (Lithuania), Austrian Music Export – Music Information Center Austria (Austria), Music Estonia (Estonia), Music Finland (Finland), First Music Contact (Ireland), Music Norway (Norway), Music Export Denmark (Denmark), PRS Foundation (United Kingdom), Sena (Netherland), SIGIC – Slovenian Music Information Centre (Slovenia), Swiss Music Export (Switzerland), SoundCzech (Czech Republic), VI.BE (Belgium), WBM  - Wallonie-Bruxeles Musiques (Belgium), Why Portugal? (Portugal), YOUROPE

Popis: ESNS Exchange is Creative Europe's programme raising circulation of new music artists.  

DECONFINING (Deconfining arts, culture and policies in Europe and Africa) 2022 – 2026

Lead organisation: Internationales Theaterinstitut e.V. (Berlín, Německo) 

Partners: Pro Progressione (Hungary), Bodo 2024 (Norway), Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 (Austria), Nacionalinis Kauno dramos teatras (Lithuania), Hrvatsko narodno kazalište Ivana pl. Zajca u Rijeci (Croatia), Art Transparent (Poland), Arts and Theatre Institute (Czech Republic), On the Move (Belgium), Goethe-Institut e.V. (Germany), Inštitut za transmedijski dizajn (Slovenia), Slovinsko, Culture Funding Watch (Tunisia)

Description: The DECONFINING project aims to create new, equal cultural ties between Europe and Africa by developing a sustainable reference cooperation model to be later extended further to other regions of the world. Building on the close collaboration between the two continents and the integration of their Capitals of Culture programmes, the project will bring together cultural practitioners, policymakers, performing, media/visual artists, in-field universities and audiences from both continents to explore and demonstrate new ways of intercontinental artistic and cultural (policy) cooperation and to contribute to a better understanding of confinement patterns from different points of view in an intercontinental perspective. All this in order to break free from paternalistic and colonial views in favor of a strong participatory attitude and to provide better access and information for intercontinental mobility and transnational co-creation.

The project is designed and led by 12 partners from 11 European and one African country, and will feature 4 forums, 4 micro-conferences, a mobility platform, an interactive policy toolkit, a DECONFINING anthology ebook, newly created artworks including performances, installations, 20 podcast episodes presenting (tandem) artistic practices, 12 art tours and a rich open digital archive.

Active CITY(zens) 2023-2024

Lead organisation: Arts and Theatre Institute

Partners: KUNSTrePublik /ZKU (Germany), Faculty of things that can’t be learned/FRU (North Macedonia), IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives (Ukraine)

Description: The aim of this project is to develop new tools to connect with the viewer, which will then help raise awareness of new artistic projects about preserving cultural heritage in transforming urban areas. All the interested partners are of strong significance to local communities, cooperating with said communities, experts, and local authorities. During this project, the ambassadors of the partnering organisations will work together to prepare and test new prototypes of tools for audience development. Eventually, the researched and developed methodology will be processed and published in a study.

Other European projects

EMEE

Members of the association: Austrian Music Export - Music Information Center Austria (Austria), Dutch Music Export (Netherlands), FMX - Faroe Music Export, Gre. ex Music (Greece), HOTS (Hungary), Iceland Music (Iceland), Initiative Musik (Germany), Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Spain), Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics - Illes Balears (Spain), Italia Music Export-SIAE (Italy), LaLa Slovak Music Export (Slovakia), CNM - Centre National de la Musique (France), Lithuanian Music Business Association (Lithuania), Musika Bulegoa - Basque Country (Spain), Music Estonia (Estonia), Music Export Poland (Poland), Music Export Ukraine (Ukraine), Music Finland (Finland), Music From Ireland - First Music Contact (Ireland), Music Latvia (Latvia), Kultur | LX (Luxembourg), Puglia Sounds - Puglia (Italy), Sound Czech (Czech Republic), Swiss Music Export (Switzerland), UK Export Network: Presented by PRS Foundation (UK), Wallonie-Bruxelles Musiques - Wallonie (Belgium), VI. BE (Belgium), Why Portugal? (Portugal), SIGIC - Slovenian Music Information Centre (Slovenia)

EMEE is a European networking association of music export agencies/institutions. EMEE has 29 members across Europe (europeanmusic.eu). They share examples of good practice, important topics concerning the international music industry, jointly run events and projects, prepare joint presentations and lobby for effective support for the music industry. EMEE has become a partner of the EU programme - Music Moves Europe Programme. In 2019, for example, EMEE managed the research "European Music Export" containing proposals for support programmes. Subsequently, in late 2020 EMEE was invited to participate in a tender called European Music Export Strategy (EMX) with the intention to implement pilot actions of a future support programme "European music export programme". The application was submitted together with a consortium led by MICA - Music Austria / Austrian Music Export, IDU / SoundCzech, Music Export Poland, KEA European Affairs, Music Finland and PRS Foundation. In 2021, the project started to be implemented and a new networking project DEMEC (Developing European Music Export Capacity) was submitted and passed to the second round of the call for proposals.