Music4coop
Strengthen the cooperative mindset in the music sector for Local Development
About
Music4Coop
Music sector faces many difficulties in being sustainable after COVID-19 pandemics and Music4Coop fosters social innovation by creating more resilient new cooperative professional roles based in Social and Solidarity Economy in music which directly contributes to sustainable development.
The innovation lies in the approach to sustainability of the music sector through Cooperation and Social and Solidarity Economy:
- Economic sustainability: balancing economic growth with equal distribution of revenues
- Organisational sustainability: promoting enterprise development and workers development
- Social sustainability: cooperating for participation and community/territory engagement
- Music Sustainability: building relationships with audiences, ensuring their participation but also increasing access to culture through diverse tools).
In the short term, a set of music professionals will be immediately able to advance rights at work, improve the quality of their jobs, and ensure access to social protection. In the medium term, the role of the music sector as driver of local and regional development will be endorsed by cooperative practices equally beneficial for the music sector and communities. In the long term European music cooperators will play a critical role in economic growth and innovation at local level fostering sustainable jobs in music and societal harmony.
Music4Coop will build new channels for cooperation between European music cooperators and Community-level stakeholders in several territories around Europe.
Our goal
Music4Coop proposes to strengthen the cooperative mindset in the music sector for local development
It is based on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) which is an ethical approach to economic development based in cooperation that prioritises the welfare of people and planet fostering diversity, gender equality, social cohesion…
Our objectivies
The objectives of the project are:
- Definition of a new professional role in music: The European music cooperator (music professional who work in conjunction with community-level stakeholders for the promotion of a common end)
- Develop an innovative upskilling experience to enable music professionals to gain new skills in cooperation and SSE to allow sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work in the music sector
- Reinforce the contribution of the music sector to the three dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic and environmental) in local, regional and rural areas. It aims to foster the role of music as a driver for local and regional development by upskilling music professionals to cooperate with community-level stakeholders to achieve common objectives of sustainable development.
Who we are looking for
PROJECT TARGET GROUPS
Music4Coop fosters social innovation by creating more resilient new cooperative professional roles based in Social and Solidarity Economy in music which directly contributes to sustainable development. It will build new channels for cooperation between European music cooperators and Community-level stakeholders in several territories around Europe.
Aspiring European music cooperators: music professionals such as composers,performers, educators, cultural managers... who develop their professional career in public and private music institutions (orchestras, conservatories, SMEs, universities...) established in the 27 EU Member States
Community-level stakeholders such as civil society organizations, local authorities, local business, community workers, schools... aiming to support the sustainable development of their territories, established in Extremadura, a rural region of Spain facing many challenges related to unemployment, depopulation and vulnerable groups.
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