MATE Festival Europe

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MATE stands for Music, Arts, Technology and Education and aims to become a relevant international meeting point, bringing together professionals, creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, brands and services from the CCI’s with a special emphasis on the music subsector. The partners in the consortium joined to design a cooperation project that was prepared in the midst of intense discussion and sharing of ideas and perspectives. Having in mind a common goal, the partners decided that the activities that they envisioned adequate to tackle the systemic problems that they face were better translated in the spirit of the Objective 1 of the Call (Transnational creation and circulation). MATE addresses this objective by creating a platform of convergences, containing new promotional and business opportunities. Simultaneously, MATE offers a diversified programe providing forums for exchange and sharing of information, collaboration, training, capacity-building, facilitation and internationalization. In this sense, the actions put forward by MATE are in line with what the European Commission considers to be the sector's strong assets: creativity, diversity and competitiveness. In what concerns the priorities of the current Call, MATE elects priorities 1 (Audience) and 5 (International dimension). The project is based on established disruptive methodologies, such as Design Thinking and Frame Innovation, focused on building opportunities, networking and collaborative projects, together with empathy, humanisation of processes and real impact results. The rationale of the MATE Festival under this call is, therefore, to be a project especially structured to foster capacity building, mentoring and business establishment for all professionals who are part of the so-called creative economy, namely, the music sector.