Promus, the Music Community of Aarhus (DK) and the Music Cities Network invite 12 European music business professionals to embark on a transnational European expedition from April 2023 until May 2024. On this journey, they will search for answers to the question: How can we boost the European music market?
As the industry continues to face multiple challenges, the programme aims to develop deeper insights, elevate leadership skills, and foster knowledge. Together, participants will develop tools and proposals to create a strong and sustainable transnational European music market. The second volume of the EMBTF will build on the already published findings from the first Task Force held in 2021/22.
EMBFT Vol. II offers one crucial aspect that most music professionals don’t have - time. The participants are given the space to get out of their daily work environment to think outside the box and to think big, which is needed to establish a more future-oriented and more healthy European Music Industry.
The Task Force will meet in person and online to engage with various current challenges and opportunities in the music industry. On the basis of this groundwork, they will then actively participate during the following music industry festivals as part of the learning process facilitated by the creative leadership experts KaosPilots (five nights at each event):
- Workshop 1: SPOT Festival and the SPOT+ Festival conference in Aarhus, Denmark (5-6 May 2023).
- Workshop 2: Reeperbahn Festival and the Reeperbahn Festival Conference in Hamburg, Germany (20-23 September 2023).
- Workshop 3: Iceland Airwaves and the Airwaves Pro Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland (2-4 November 2023).
- Workshop 4: Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) and the ESNS Conference in Groningen, Netherlands (2024).
- Workshop 5: Tallinn Music Week and Conference in Tallinn, Estonia (2024).
The programme covers travel and accommodation to the five industry festivals.
