EJN

EJN projects offer a platform to members and others helping them to professionalise their practice and operate inter/trans-nationally testing new business and management models. They include 15 specific activities:Conferences/seminars/workshops will be organized to discuss and develop the connection between music and migration and sustainability. Starting from artistic projects and helped by experts, professionals will share expertise on how to develop artistic projects involving several partners following new models. During the major annual international conference, EJN welcomes 3rd countries and looks for collaborations beyond EU boundaries.The conference will include networking activities: working groups meetings where professionals share and disseminate information of common cultural issues, encourage dialogue and international collaborations, exchange good practices. Audience development will be a major focus, linked with Jazz Across Europe, and a large scale research project which EJN will carry out with the help of experts making its findings available to all professionals. Research will also focus on the impact of the jazz sector on employment and economic benefit and on the history of EU jazz. EJN will organise 3 preparatory activities, facilitating working group meetings, laying foundations of future EJN projects, analyzing/creating innovative methods to productions for kids, studying the jazz scene from a norm-critical perspective.Advanced digital tools are developed: calendar wrapper; integrated geo-mapping; tour management/artists itinerary tool; maintenance/strengthening of EJN web database. EJN virtual office will develop via video conferences, newsletters, virtual meetings, Board Meetings, management of EJN working committees’EJN staff team will grow; a strong communication plan will develop through staff employed specifically for this. Finally, the 3rd EJN Award for Adventurous Programming will be announced, assigned and celebrated.