Invitation to Seminar "Reach Out, Open Up, Take In"

The International and European Music Council (IMC/EMC) together with the Hungarian Music Council and Europa Cantat Central-Eastern European Centre (ECCEEC) would like to invite you to the seminar "Reach Out, Open Up, Take In - Developing your skills in advocacy, networking and international cooperation" taking place from 27 February to 1 March 2009 in Pomáz, Hungary.

The seminar "Reach out, Open Up, Take In" addresses national music organisations in North, Central and South Eastern Europe, from Albania to Slovakia, and from Ukraine to Estonia. The seminar will provide an insight on how to be recognised as a cultural advocacy body in your country and how to put the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the cultural diversity of expressions into practice.
The following questions will be investigated: How to become and how to stay a representative umbrella organisation? How to open up for different music genres and how to cooperate with organisations from other art forms? Which are the chances and challenges of European and international partnerships? And how to create a fair system of intellectual property rights? These and further questions will be investigated in diverse presentations, workshops and panel discussions by experts from the national and international music sector in dialogue with all the participants.
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to present the work of your organisation during an ongoing info market.

More information on funding opportunities for your participation in the seminar and online registration are available at www.emc-imc.org.