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  • Boosting the EU culture budget – A call from Europe’s cultural & creative sectors

    Published on 9 April 2018

    Together with 66 organisations from across the European cultural and creative sectors, we are urging the European Union to give a significant and much-needed boost to the EU’s budget dedicated to culture.

    In this joint letter, we share our thoughts on the place of culture in the EU budget ahead of the presentation by the European Commission of its draft Regulation for the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework in May 2018.

    The cultural and creative sectors provide more than 12 million full-time jobs (7.5 % of the EU’s work force), and create approximately €509bn in value added to GDP (5.3 % of the EU’s total GVA)1. This is to be contrasted with the €1,4bn allocated to the EU support programme for culture, Creative Europe, over a period of 7 years, which represents 0,15% of the overall EU budget…

    Read and download the joint letter here. 

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    Lack of visibility of women and gender minorities working in the live music sector, positions who are still very gendered… The live music sector has room for improvement regarding gender diversity. Navigate the slides below to find information on the obstacles the live music sector encounters to implement a true gender equality within its workforce…

  • Live Style Europe Podcast #21 – November 2021

    Live Style Europe is a monthly radio show presented by Live DMA, European non-governmental network representing over 3000 live music venues, clubs, and festivals in 17 different countries and working to support and to promote the condition of the European live music sector.Each month, we invite a live music expert from our network to discuss topics that…

  • Yourope Members Survey

    Yourope, association gathering nearly 100 festivals and live music events in 26 European countries, published the results of their 2018 members survey. This survey investigates the general setting of their member festivals, gives insight on the events’ audiences, explores their European dimension, and analyses the structural and economic settings of their member festivals. Key facts…

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