Projects at the exchange session
In the projects exchange session, participants have the opportunity to learn more about several projects and their way of "sustaining music".
Project descriptions
AEC - Empowering Artists as Makers in Society (ARTEMIS)
AEC – Empowering Artists as Makers in Society (ARTEMIS, 2022-2025) is a project coordinated by the AEC and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission. Within ARTEMIS, the Diversity, Inclusion and Gender Equality Working Group has developed a resource package entitled 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Music Education: An Invitation for Action.' With this 'invitation for action', the group welcomes all AEC member institutions to explore, discuss and implement practices fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in Higher Music Education (HME), inviting peer colleagues to collectively dream up possible futures for HME through DEI work, which responds to the need to accommodate the plurality of backgrounds, artistic paradigms, access capabilities, identities and aspirations amongst current as well as future students and staff.
The project ARTEMIS will be presented by Monica Vejgaard.
A Manual for Regenerative Gatherings
A Manual for Regenerative Gatherings is a report designed to help event organizers transition towards a more environmentally friendly music and festival scene. The report draws on the experiences of LIOS Labs residencies in the Blędowska Desert, Poland and the production of a micro festival, Sharing of the Fruits. Through these experiences, the onEarth foundation team have identified the practical difficulties and challenges of ensuring environmental protection during event production, as well as maintaining a healthy workstyle in hectic festival environments. The report provides an overview of the actions, approach, good practices, and mistakes, along with a practical sustainability checklist. It is open-source and available for free download.
The project A Manual for Regenerative Gatherings will be presented by Jo Vávra.
Digital Safaris on Sustainbility
Live DMA and PULSE created a series of Digital Safaris on Sustainability in live music venues, festivals and clubs. LIVE MUSIC SCENES: ACTORS OF A FAIR AND ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY: The global climate crisis has led many organisations from the live music sector in Europe to act towards a more eco-conscious and socially fair future. BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF LIVE MUSIC ORGANISERS: The Digital Safaris on Sustainability give live music professionals from all around Europe the opportunity to virtually visit live music scenes that work in an ecological way. The inclusive actions put in place or the way they manage waste, the Digital Safaris are a place for exchange of concrete tips on how to think and act in a sustainable manner in your live music venue. Our goal is to create a community of live music organisers.
Digital Safaris on Sustainability will be presented by Audrey Guerre
EEnlarge Europe
Music venues are disappearing due to gentrification, economic problems and/or political reasons, therefore musicians have almost nowhere to play and develop their live performances early on in their careers. This situation had become even more polarized by COVID- and the current energy crisys. Venues need to improve all sorts of skills, help each other and share the workload, and by improving their soft skills and cooperating with each other they can strengthen and make the whole music scene more independent. EEnlarge Europe is a knowledge sharing and cooperational hub tailored for the grassroot scene’s needs. The project invites professionals from all fields from large venues to layers, from social media experts to showcase organisers, from associations to governmental decision makers. EEnlarge Europe aims to be a region-wide cooperative hub that actively provides knowledge, support and advocacy in order to shift from harmful market-based competition into a healthy transcultural and transnational mutual assistance. Our activities also include data-driven recovery actions, awareness raising campaigns, advocacy and scene strengthening catalyzation of communication and networking with the actors of the scene and with the policy makers. In 2022 we founded SUBSTRAT, the first regional grassroot conference and festival, started in Zagreb, butwill travel year by year to give closer look into the region's music scenes.
The project EEnlarge Europe will be presented by Eszter Décsy.
European Folk Day
The European Folk Day - 23 September 2023. The overarching objective of the project is to coordinate, support and publicise the full extent of traditional arts activities in the first ever European Folk Day, an initiative proposed and discussed in previous conferences by the European Folk Network’s (EFN's) 150 members from 30 European nations. The European Folk Day aims to harness traditional music and arts activity across Europe – from the grassroots to national organisations and from indigenous as well as newly-migrant communities – in a way that is only possible through EFN’s emerging pan-European collective membership and with the use of available digital communication technology . Practical support and coordination in this pilot will indicate the full range of activity across Europe and demonstrate the prevalence and critical mass of traditional arts in European societies. Coverage for European Folk Day activities will be achieved at local, national and pan-European level by participants working on their own local and national contacts, digital and social media channels, coordinating and cross-linking with EFN’s PR and marketing at European level.
The European Folk Day will be presented by Nod Knowles.
Music4Change
Music4Change prioritizes sustainability in music research and education through innovations in teaching and learning. Through a transnational European alliance of universities and NGOs, the project will energize the field of doctoral studies by increasing interdisciplinarity, digital competency, and cooperation between universities and the music sector. The project will implement a new Curriculum for Change for PhD education offering open access digital resources and blended learning focusing on sustainability in and through music research. Cross sector knowledge exchange will be fostered through innovations in Living Lab Workshop methodology. The Bridge Mentorship Scheme will be piloted to provide tailored support for diverse learner profiles and post study career paths. Through increasing knowledge of the role of arts in achieving sustainable development goals music4change aims to foster socially responsible research that brings the power and possibilities of the arts to key public issues.
The project will be presented by Jill Halstead.
STOMP: Sustainable Tools for Online Music Practices
The STOMP project - Sustainable Tools for Online Music Practices – A Practical Guide for Musicians, is dedicated to sustainable digital issues applied to the music sector. This project by The Green Room aims to assess the needs of musicians in this area, and to help them reduce their digital environmental footprint by proposing an inventory of knowledge, practices and initiatives. STOMP will provide an overview of the different strategies and concrete sustainable tools to address the current blind spot of digital use in the music sector.
STOMP is a project co-funded by the European Union as part of the MusicAire initiative.
STOMP will be presented by Lucie Bouchet
Sustaining the Five Music Rights in the Education Sector
Sustaining the Five Music Rights in the Education Sector: Policy for for Life-long Wellbeing and Health’. Dr. Dorothy Conaghan's current project – in her role as researcher at the University in Vienna and in Dublin - is analysing sustainable and fair systems of music education in terms of Access, Equal Conditions, Political Responsibility, all underpinned by the recommendations contained in Five Music Rights. She is especially looking at how these rights can and are applied to education in the various European jurisdictions.
The project Sustaining the Five Music Rights in the Education Sector will be presented by Dorothy Conaghan
