Pan-European Cultural Entities

This action is expected to support 3 to 5 projects.

These projects will:

• develop the careers of young musicians who must be nationals/residents of at least 20 countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme.
• reflect the diversity of culture and European musical genres.
• encourage the participation and access of new and young audiences to culture, by allowing them to experience orchestral music at first hand, working on both traditional and innovative formats, between artistic excellence and social engagement.

Finally, these projects should help to develop activities to consolidate the role of orchestras and artists as promoters and ambassadors of the European Union's values. While respecting merit based on the evaluation of the award criteria, the evaluation committee will ensure that the portfolio of projects selected is diverse and respects a balance both geographically and between musical genres.

This action supports projects proposed by cultural entities - in the context of this call for proposals, orchestras - whose aim is to offer training, professional development, and performance opportunities to young musicians with great potential.

The specific objectives of this action are the following:

• support the professionalisation of young musicians, offering them opportunities for high standard career development through recruitment, training and touring and performance opportunities.
• foster the artistic excellence of youth orchestral performance.
• support the activities of organisations and artists who act as promoters and ambassadors of EU values.

Theme and priorities

The projects should address the cross-cutting issues of (i) inclusion and diversity, notably gender balance, and (ii) greening of Creative Europe.

The projects should also address the following specific call priorities:

• Artists and cultural professionals: empowering the cultural and creative sectors.

In addition, applicant organisations are encouraged to address the following key Creative Europe priorities:

• Culture for the people: enhancing cultural participation and the role of culture in society.
• Culture for co-creative partnerships: strengthening the cultural dimension of EU external relations.
• Culture for digital transformation: help the European cultural and creative sectors to fully take advantage of new technologies to enhance their competitiveness.

Proposals should present complete need analysis and demonstrate how the above priorities and cross-cutting issues are addressed.

Activities that can be funded

Proposals should include suitable activities to meet the objective of the call and address the themes, priorities, and cross-cutting issues in an effective way. They should also present a substantiated strategy and concrete details on how to develop and implement such activities.

These activities should include:

• an adequate mix of training, mentoring programmes, apprenticeship activities or advice to music professionals

And

• an adequate mix of workshops, events, concerts, exchanges, coproductions, online and offline activities aiming at the discovery of the orchestral world for diverse audience, and notably young audience.