 Good morning everybody here today and very, very warm welcome to the first of December LUNS event of the Perform Europe OpenCore. I am Ausa Rekastokter, Secretary-General of ITN and Chair of Perform Europe and I will be your host today. For the next hour the team and the partners of Perform Europe will inform you about the new OpenCore, its criteria and requirements, the different tools we have created to assist the Perform Europe partnership process, the several infosessions and help desk sessions ahead as well as share with you our own thoughts on the importance of this European funding scheme for the Performing Arts. And on that note we want to state that has been very meaningful and a learning experience to develop Perform Europe with our founder the European Union through its Progressive Programme Creative Europe. And on that note we are thrilled to welcome our opening speaker of the day, Pia Aringilde Hansen, the Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture. Pia, the floor is yours. Thank you very much dear Perform Europe Chair and Mrs Ausa Rekastokter, dear consortium partners, dear colleagues. Thank you for this invitation. It's really a pleasure to meet all of you as we celebrate the success of Perform Europe. The Performing Arts sector suffered a lot over the last three years with the pandemic, with the energy crisis, with inflation. In 2020 alone the Performing Arts sector saw overall losses of revenue going beyond 70 percent and these challenges added to more structural difficulties like market and sector fragmentation, linguistic barriers or travel costs. And yet in the midst of these obstacles this community came together supported by Creative Europe. And when Europeans needed Performing Arts the most, when they needed connection and catharsis, you made sure that confinement was not an insurmountable obstacle. And this brings me to my first message. The work of Perform Europe underlines the strength, resilience and dedication of the Performing Arts sectors. It is this community we are supporting and celebrating today. A community that takes pride in being inclusive and diverse. A community that for a long time has put care into making sure everyone feels their emotions and expresses themselves. A community that leverages this emotional intelligence and persistently contributes to do good. For example, contributing to mitigate the damage of climate change preserving our planet. Your work has our full support, most notably through Creative Europe funding. Because these challenges are not in the past tense. COVID may have accelerated the digital transition in this sector. But it also brought up issues regarding skills, rights and revenue distribution. It is to tackle these challenges to make sure the sector finds its own solutions that we put forward 2.1 million euro for the current Perform Europe calls open until March next year. And we will support 35 projects with up to 60,000 euro and 5% of the total funding will be dedicated to collaborative projects involving Ukrainian partners or supporting initiatives in the Ukrainian performing arts sector. And these projects will explore innovative models for performance to continue to enrich our lives. Be it through rethinking the way we create, distribute or enjoy art. The commission may put forward the means, but you are at the steering wheel and you will already have the benefit of knowledge created by the 19 projects that we financed during the pilot phase of this initiative. Let me conclude by congratulating the Perform Europe consortium. International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts. Europe Dance House Network. European Network for Contemporary Circus and Outdoor Arts. European Festivals Association. And the Pearl Live Performance Europe. You contribute to Creative Europe, to the European Theatre Initiative, and to the performing arts sector has been invaluable. And I look forward to seeing the fruits of your collaborative work. And I hope to see this action grow towards new synergies. For example, with Culture Moves Europe or with the new culture and creativity, knowledge and innovation community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. And I cannot wait to hear the stories and inspiring projects that you will bring forward. I wish you a lot of success in your applications. Thank you. Thank you so much, Pia, for your kind and encouraging words. We will certainly keep them with us on the journey ahead. And speaking of journeys, Perform Europe is now beginning its journey from being an 18-month pilot to being a long-term standalone funding scheme, offering cascading grants to the performing arts. The learnings and successes of the pilot are many, and we encourage you to study the resources on the Perform Europe website. It was successful because its priorities align completely with the priorities of Europe. The European Green Deal, our strong intentions for an inclusive European society, our determination to offer just and democratic communities. These priorities find manifestations in so many different ways in the arts. And the Perform Europe pilot, the 88 partners which formed the 19 partnership selected, showed very innovative ways to tour and present 45 artistic works 250 times across more than 90 locations. They did so by offering inclusion of our European rural areas, bridging gaps between audiences and artists with disabilities, promoting queer, feminist, decolonial, migrant, human-centered, artist-led, ecological initiatives. They practised slow travel and replaced carbon-intensive practices with green solutions. Let's hear the voices of a few of them. Perform Europe as a new, totally new source of financing is giving us a chance to bring dance to many different cities out of Prague, not only to the capital city, to bring it also in the villages where normally you don't have infrastructure to present contemporary dance. Perform Europe was really something so accessible, so easy to apply. I mean, it was a process which I think was brilliant that we really gave the feedback, what do we need? What is it that we think is possible or is necessary? Well, for us, especially Project Woods was touring four different cities in the Czech Republic, starting in Brno going to Ostrava, Pilsen and Prague. And we were able to do 12 different body installations in squares and other parts of the cities with this concept of planting the trees from bodies, from legs, and the people were absolutely impressed. They were so happy to see something so specific and they were also surprised that they were not only women but also men participating in it. And for us it was also important that half of these performances were completed by Ukrainian dancers and for them it was a totally new experience. And the way that we could embrace each other, I think was the most memorable moment for me as well as the things that happen in between the processes. And that's what I kind of take back for, you know. All the breakdowns, tears, laughter, joys and the stories that came out from the participants of the project in a very short time, very personal experiences that I would think like twice probably sharing it with strangers but this kind of workshops and interventions kind of brought that space, a very collective safe space. We will hear from the Perform Europe partners, the representatives of the network organisations which have put their minds together to develop Perform Europe. And I'm proud to give the floor first to Katrin Deventer, Vice Chair of Perform Europe and Secretary-General of the European Festival Association. Good morning, everyone. I'm very happy also to bridge this little time and I'm very happy to see you all here and introduce IFA to the European Festival Association, Platform of Arts Festivals, reaching out obviously to festivals through membership but also various projects, such as the European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists with the main task to bring festivals in contact with each other across borders. We enjoy it and we enjoy still very much joining forces with colleague networks as well as with the European Commission to set up Perform Europe and to continue developing this platform for supporting performing arts practices in a meaningful way but also to engage into a conversation around topics as you mentioned AUSA that concern the sector. Perform Europe for me has always been that and for that very unique, it's not only an incentive for collaboration through a fund but it's also an invitation for collective thinking and for reflections within the sector and connecting those reflections back to the policy making levels. We hope not only with today's call but in the next weeks and months to be in touch with many festivals and presenting contacts and of course artists and producing companies as well and to see them back in Perform Europe and in the projects in the next years. Now over to you, Anita. Anita de Barre, the new kid of the network block in the Perform Europe Consortium, Director of Pearl. Yes, that's wonderful. Hello everyone, a very good, good morning to you all. Imagine, I can present myself as a newcomer. My name is Anita de Barre, I represent Pearl, live performance Europe and I hope you are a newcomer just like I am. So this is a very exciting and vibrant time that we are having and sharing. I really sense this over the Zoom wires that are crossing Europe. Now, getting serious now, why did we join and decided to join Perform Europe? It is because our members from across Europe, when they saw the first project, they were so excited. They, whether they were from the creation side or the presenter side, they said, yes, this is what we are waiting for, the European fund supporting mobility, supporting cross-border culture cooperation. And it is cooperation, it is in the genes, it's in the fundament of Europe. It's the real expression of culture diversity, which is valued so highly in Europe. So we're very pleased to be part of that and I hope you share my excitement as well. Now making it possible to work together across borders and art disciplines in the performing arts with a focus on the one hand on sustainability or on inclusion and or allows to create really added value to initiatives that grow with you in your organizations, in your creative process at a local level. But then it has your potential to be brought to a wider audience. So this is just fantastic. Now for all those reasons, Perform Europe is really the excellent opportunity for any one of you who is seeking to enhance its experience and to broaden its network. So again, we are very excited to take art in this journey and to contribute with the expertise and now how that we have on mobility questions. If you have anything, just meet us and we are there to help you. But to contribute in that sense to the totality of the Perform Europe project. So we are looking forward to give an opportunity to the great diversity of the performing arts that are also represented by our member federations and give new opportunities and chances to highlight projects with fit within the aims of Perform Europe with the focus on sustainability and inclusion. So I'm happy to hand over to Juris Jansens of Idea Consult and over to you, Juris. Thank you very much, Anita. And hello, everybody. Good morning. Very pleased to be here. Indeed, Idea Consult is the research partner in Perform Europe. During the first pilot, we carried out mapping research in this research, but also in the whole pilot. We saw that in the performing arts sector, there is a huge need and a big desire to develop and to innovate more sustainable practices with regards to ecological sustainability, with regards to a more inclusive approach towards touring and international presentation. And to boost this need and desire to innovate, Perform Europe will provide a much needed space for setting up experiments, for trying out new approaches with regards to ecological sustainability, the fight against climate change, and also to foster diversity and inclusion. We will allow for the space to set up experiments, but also to learn from these experiments, to document them, to share them, to share the lessons learned with the selected partnerships and also with the broader performing arts ecosystem. And that is why we have set up Perform Europe as a collective space for learning and development, for all the beneficiaries that will take our part in the journey, for all the performing arts sector, they will be able to learn also from what has been learned in these experiments, which will eventually also feed into further policy developments. And indeed the role of Hidia Consult right now in this edition of Perform Europe is to facilitate this collective learning and development trajectory. Now I give the floor to Eva Blobek, she is the Network Manager of EDM, European Dance Development Network. Well, it's good. Sorry. Hello, everyone. This is how it is to have a home office with sick kids. And thank you, Ihoris, for the introduction. My name is Eva Broberg, and I'm the European Dance Development Networks Network Manager. The mission is to do advocacy and research, competence, building and cooperation and collaboration for and with professionals in the European dance sector. One of the specificities of contemporary dance is its need for mobility. It collaborates and moves beyond national borders, pushing the settings of its aesthetics, production process and how to engage with its audience. EDM is very proud to be a partner of Perform Europe to have had the opportunity to create and develop a platform for professionals to connect outside existing connections and networks. And to give support for professionals to connect outside existing... Sorry. And to give support where artistic ideas can grow within these connections. Perform Europe provides a funding scheme supporting innovative thinking outside the box for performing arts work. These works can be sprouts of long-term, sustainable co-production thinking. Or they could bring a new narrative about what a good life can be in times of climate crisis. Or inspire others when emphasizing diversity in a work, its production process or how it meets its audience. We're looking forward to see many new performing arts work come alive and move soon. Thank you. And now I would like to give the screen to Stefan Segretto Aguilar, Network Coordinator of Circus Strada. Bringing in the contemporary circus and outdoor arts. Thanks, Eva. Hi, everyone. Much has been said already by my dear colleagues, but I would still like the chance to share with you two extra reasons on why Perform Europe is an extremely important funding scheme and on why I'm very excited about this new journey. First and foremost, when talking about inclusion, diversity and the fight against climate change, I believe that together we can act, that we can make a change, that we can show that a change is possible and that we can have a stronger impact if we is the stage, whether it is physical or digital and our tools are our voices, our minds and our bodies. So let's do this. Let's cooperate. Let's work together. Let's create these stories that will inspire, question, provoke and entertain. Let's engage with audiences differently and with different audiences. Let's contribute to pave the way for a society where freedom of expression is really valued, where well-being is properly put into practice, where social exclusion and discrimination are reversed and where we promote social justice and equality between genders. We can do all this also thanks to Perform Europe. The importance of this funding scheme resonates with me also for another reason. Apologies for preaching a little bit for my choir, but I'm excited to see how rich and diverse stories the contemporary circus and other arts can bring to form Europe values and priorities. I am really looking forward to this next to, of course, discovering partnerships and artistic project focusing more on theater than performance and puppetry. Thank you for listening. That's all for me. Over to you, Alsa. Thank you, Stefan, and thank you dear partners. It has been an absolute privilege to work on Perform Europe with these strong passionate partners. All of us care strongly and have a responsibility towards the enhancement of Perform Europe and we see our collaboration in Perform Europe as a testament of how the sector itself can take charts of its own destiny in shaping future funding schemes. And I am now going to hope that we will be able to bring you the voices of the Perform Europe pilot partner artists and presenters. I think if EU acknowledges the experiences of the marginalized communities, it would be helpful to build a much more cohesive and inclusive society. That's how I feel like this project is important in bringing forward the resistant voices that are still present in Europe in different locations, in different forms. Perform Europe was like a gigantic, democratic mobility funds scheme that then showed the potential of how we can reach all these places that we are reaching that would not be reached but also bring the artists to the home of Europe. This experience was life changing for me in terms of professionally. In the UK my work and that way of working and finding spaces to have slow work which is in a residency format that is not outcome based. That is migrant led that is diversity led. It's been a hard sell for a number of years, for a number of reasons. And that's not to say that there's a lot of people that are very supportive of this kind of work. So having an international funder who is up for exploration and testing has been an incredible game changer. This brings me to the most important part of this one hour webinar which is what you have been waiting for the new call of performance from Europe and I will note very happily give the floor to Karim Filinden the project coordinator of Perform Europe. Good morning everyone. I'm really happy to know that so many of you have registered and are here with us today tuning in from many different places for this official launch. I will now share with you as Asa said the most important information about the open call. I will talk about the call's priorities the different eligibility criteria I will tell you all about the matchmaking tool that we have developed and of course I will at the end also share the timeline with you. But let's start with the basics. The open call of Perform Europe is now officially launched and will be open for four months until the 31st of March 2024. In total there is a budget of 2.1 million euro available to be granted to at least 35 successful partnership projects. Perform Europe is a program for the entire performing arts community. With this open call we want to make change and therefore we are looking for new ideas and for proposals which will have a long lasting impact on the performing arts sector. We invite partnerships to come up with innovative proposals and courageous ideas to change the way in which we tour and performing arts across borders and to make it greener more diverse and more inclusive. This translates in the two priorities in focus of our open call. The first one being diversity and inclusion and the second one being the fight against climate change. Partnerships who apply will choose one or both of these priorities as a focus for their proposal. And then with the ambition to move towards a fairer sector we particularly welcome projects by or involving the areas and communities which are currently underrepresented in the performing arts mobility flows. These include but are not limited to members of the LGBTQIA plus community. People based in rural areas having underrepresented gender racial or ethnic backgrounds people with disabilities and other people that identify as members of an underrepresented group within the performing arts landscape. We acknowledge that Perform Europe operates in a highly diverse and unequal context in 40 different countries. Also Perform Europe's pilot research has revealed several disparities between countries and communities which are part of creative Europe. And we want to tell you that Perform Europe aims to move towards rectifying these disparities. Then a selection criteria next to the quality of the proposal in addressing one or both of the mentioned priorities. All Perform Europe proposals should implement the following cross-cutting criteria. All proposals should aim for quality and innovation. And all partnerships and proposals should be built on fair principles. This is essential to Perform Europe. 2.1 million euro will be awarded to at least 35 partnerships. Grants will be divided in three categories 12,000 32,000 and 62,000 euro with the 60,000 being the maximum grant available for each selected partnership. Applicants will choose the grant amount they apply for it is up to them to decide in relation to the project that they envision. We will incorporate specific support to the Ukrainian performing arts community as 5% of the total funding will be dedicated towards partnerships with Ukrainian partners or initiatives that support the Ukrainian performing arts sector. And then important to note is that Perform Europe does not cover production costs for new creations so it means that proposals will need to include a finished artistic work finished artistic production or an artistic concept which is ready to tour and can be presented across borders. Then on eligibility the call is open to performing arts professionals and organizations legally based in one of the 40 creative Europe countries. A partnership consists of a minimum of three partners from three creative Europe countries and in their proposal they will need to be presenting a minimum of one performing arts work also in three different creative Europe countries. Professionals and organizations based in the UK are unfortunately no longer eligible for Perform Europe. All performing arts disciplines are eligible under the call, excluding live music performances because we work complementary to the Music Moves Europe initiative. Now this is something that I'm quite excited to present to you. It has been developed uniquely for Perform Europe on our website applicants will have the opportunity to participate in our matchmaking. So potential applicants will be able to access their profile with all their relevant information and once they have their own profile they can use tags and filters to look for other partners. They can send each other match requests and upon a successful match their contact information will be unlocked for each other and they can connect and start building a partnership. We believe that this matchmaking tool will be highly beneficial in making sure that partnerships are created beyond the usual suspects for collaboration and will foster the diversity in the partnerships. Our new website was launched on the 1st of November you might have already seen and from today onwards it is also possible to create your own profile and participate in the matchmaking. This is an example of what a profile page will look like. You will have a photo a title of course a description of what you do. You will also be able to list what you can offer to perform your partnership and what you need from it or what you are looking for. You can indicate the topics you are working on and so on. As you see here the main contact information is still blurred because there hasn't been a successful match yet. This is what your matchmaking tool will look like where you can search for other partners maybe it's a bit small but in that black bar you will be able to indicate certain tags certain filters for searching. You can see who you have marked as favorites you can see the matches you have sent and what you have received. Then the toolkit this is another tool that has been specifically created for Perform Europe. It was developed by IDEA consult to help applicants in setting up meaningful partnerships and creating an impactful proposal. I will not say too much about it as Joris will present the toolkit to us later. Now how to apply it all happens on our website. If you want to apply make sure to read the open calling guidelines in detail register with an account maybe use a matchmaking tool to find partners. Set up your partnership plan your proposal of course apply in our digital application form where you also upload your budget form and submit before the deadline on the 31st of March of next year. Then as Perform Europe is also more than a funding scheme for selected partnerships we will be collecting the learnings of the selected projects throughout their implementation to contribute to further reflections on the transition of the performing arts sector we will share all these learnings with the broader performing arts community and policy stakeholders at all times relevant. And as promised at the end here's the timeline from today on the call is open for four months. Once the call is closed independent evaluators will assess and select the projects and by the 3rd of June we will be able to announce the selection. Then from the 1st of July 2024 until the 30th of November 2025 the partnerships will have 17 months to implement their proposal. Now I mentioned the toolkit briefly before so I would like to invite Joris Janssens from IDEA consults to tell us all about it. Thank you very much Karen. I will share my screen to present the Perform Europe Toolkit to explain to you what it is and what it is about. Indeed it is a PDF canvas that you will be able to find online and indeed it is a tool that is developed to help you develop proposals that are really aligned with the aims and objectives of Perform Europe which you know all about right now. It's a toolkit that is set up to really spark a conversation within potential partnerships to help share and exchange artistic ideas to identify common goals and challenges and well to develop strong projects that are really in line with the aims and objectives of Perform Europe. Who is it for? Indeed it is for everybody who has an interest in developing proposals. You can have different situations where there can be a situation where you already have a partnership. You already have a project idea and in that situation the toolkit can help you to really refine articulate align your proposal with Perform Europe objectives to really explain what you want to do and why this is important. It can also be another situation where you already have a partnership in mind you already have some partners around the table with a project idea and also in this situation the toolkit can help you to explore what do we want to achieve together what are the challenges we will face and this will help you to develop a strong proposal. The third situation is also possible where you sit around the table you don't know with these partners that you will develop a partnership but the toolkit will help you to explore to see whether you have a good partnership with the proposals with regards to Perform Europe. It's usable in different situations and you can also use it both in an online setting in Zoom Teams or other environments but you can also download and print the toolkit to use it in a physical setting in live meetings. That's all possible. It's a conversation starter about Perform Europe toolkit is a canvas with four levels and when you go through the levels you have different topics to explore. First you will talk about what are the artistic ideas that we want to further explore in a Perform Europe project proposal. Put them on the table, exchange about it get to know each other. Second there is room to explore common ground it's really the change we want to make with regards to the Perform Europe priorities. Climate change, diversity, inclusion what do we really want to achieve what's the impact we want to have on our practice on the Performing Art sector and exchange about that and find the common ground. Third level is indeed if you want to do that it's quite complicated and you will certainly meet some challenges individually but also as a partnership what are the challenges we think we will face resources are always limited so what are the challenges that we think we will face when trying to achieve this aim. And the last level is it will help you to design and perform your proposal to explain to each other and to design a number of activities and also explain how these activities will contribute to the aims that you want to achieve together with the change that you want to bring about with your Perform Europe project and proposal. So this is what the toolkit will do and it's part of a bigger plan as we already indicated Perform Europe is not about funding the status quo it starts from the belief that artistic projects and sharp artistic ideas can help to innovate with regards to fight against climate change and to foster inclusion and diversity and we will learn a lot about it throughout the whole process. We will encounter a number of challenges as I already said but we will also learn a lot about how to overcome these challenges and we will have learning and development trajectory where we will exchange about the lessons learned and in fact the toolkit is the start of this collective learning trajectory. Now let's have a few more minutes to look at the toolkit itself what does it look like as I said you can download it and find it on the website and how can you use it in fact before you will use it you will do a number of steps as Karen said that you register online that you make a profile and there you can already share some of the ideas that you want to further explore you can use the much making tool to find your partners it's also important before using the toolkit that you choose one or both or to perform your priorities it's important that you do that before using the toolkit. If you've done that you're ready to sit around the table you schedule a meeting and then before you start it's also good that you assign a number of roles everybody can contribute to the discussion of course but it's good to have a moderator that helps you to come to conclusions it's good to have a reporter that takes notes in the interactive PDF or just on paper it's also good to have a timekeeper who keeps track of time and guides you through the exercise and then you go through the exercise this is what one of the screens in our canvas looks like first level as I said we need to get to know each other explore your artistic interests and this is a screen where you will explain to each other who am I, where am I based you will pick a color perform your color that you will use through the different exercises and you will explain who you are and where you are based and it might look like this in a fictitious example also in this first level indeed you will explore artistic interests and you are asked, everybody is asked to come up with two ideas artistic ideas other ideas, any ideas that you really want to explore further perform Europe and we will ask you to put them on a gliding scale to the left it is the topic that you are really very much experienced in and you bring this experience to the table to the right if you have less experience but are very much interested to learn to explore these topics further and if you put them on the table on the color that you have chosen you will get an image like this and you will have a number of ideas for your conversation and maybe already have some building blocks for a common artistic vision we will ask you then to moderator will do that to come to a conclusion and to really identify what are the shared ideas that we want to further explore in a potential proposal for perform Europe so this is level one, explore your artistic interests and it can look like that and then indeed you are ready to find a common ground first with regards to really what is the change that we want to bring about with regards to our practice with regards to the practice in performing arts and this is a screen where we will collect your individual ideas bring them together cluster them and talk with each other exchange what is the change that you want to bring about individually and if you fill in the exercise you will find a number of major topics focus areas, focus points that you really want to work on and you will collect everybody's views ideas and ambitions with regards to these topics and then indeed you will come to a conclusion once more can you really find a common ground what will we try to explore what is the change we want to make with our potential partnership your moderator will help you with your conclusion and your reporter will write it down and it could look like this when it is filled in let's advance and this is indeed the end of each level will come to a point where you will ask yourself and your potential partnership are we ready to continue did we find a common ground if you didn't find a common ground if you're quite sure that this is not your partnership you will stop here and maybe you will go back to the matchmaking tool find other partners and you will get around the table in a different setting if you think maybe we will be able to develop a proposal but we need to find something out then you can maybe stop, schedule a new meeting have some time for reflection but if you think yes indeed we have found this common ground then you can advance to the next level of the Perform Europe Toolkit and indeed these are the kinds of exercises that you will find in the Perform Europe Toolkit in level 3 you will talk not only about the change that you want to make but the challenges that you will encounter along the way individually but also within your project and you will go through the same steps collect ideas come to a common conclusion and also do the exercise are we ready to continue or are there further things that we need to find out before we can continue and in the last level indeed you will design your Perform Europe proposal you will explain to each other and you will design what is the works that we will put on tour that we will present across borders where will this happen what other types of activities will we develop and importantly how will these activities really contribute to the change that we want to bring about with regards to for instance the fight against climate change or diversity and inclusion it can be for instance that we will share resources investing research and development that the activities will help us to innovate with regards to formats and processes just some examples so indeed this is the last level you design your Perform Europe proposal and if you have a green light there you can refine it further elaborate it and apply this in a nutshell is the Perform Europe toolkit indeed it's really a conversation starter to help the further development of proposals artistic innovative proposals that contribute to the aims of Perform Europe you'll be able to find it online and you can start using it starting today Thank you Joris Thanks a lot for this very comprehensive journey through the toolkit which we really hope you will all now take into and make use of for your upcoming applications we are now coming towards the end of this launch event but before we say goodbye we want to share with you information on the networking events coming up as well as some additional tips about things that are available to you in this Perform Europe open call period for the next four months as I said there's a lot of different things that are going to be available for you available to you from today until 31st of March when the call ends and first up it's the events there will be various events in connection to the open call the goal of the events is to inspire and inform the sector about Perform Europe's guiding values and visions and the importance of the many opportunities that it provides we will be organizing two specific Perform Europe online sessions open to the entire sector the first one is in two weeks on Friday the 15th of December and the second one is Friday the 2nd of February 2024 during both of these sessions we will be sharing information about the call answering questions about how to create opportunities for networking and we will also be assisting potential applicants in the use of the toolkit and the maps making platform so in a way in the next events we will sort of dig further into the tools of Perform Europe the networks who are partners in Perform Europe will also be hosting over 20 targeted infosessions and networking events to further disseminate the call amongst diverse professional audiences both online and in person in various cities across Europe next to these network events the Creative Europe Desks will be hosting information sessions often in local languages and on that note you should all know that Creative Europe Desks is in place in every single participating country and are available for questions and assistance in relation to Creative Europe Program and specifically for our case for Perform Europe and we are really sincerely thankful for that support please check out the events calendar on our website subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date about events locations specific focuses and information on accessibility on the activities page on our website we gather not only all the information about the events but you can also find the section news there where we will be sharing important updates as we roll out the entire Perform Europe project another section under activities on our website is the page courses where we collect research and documentations about all the topics that are relevant to the Perform Europe priorities for example good practices on inclusion a handbook on greening practices and so on and so forth and last but not least please look at the section stories on our website where we share the inspiring journeys of the projects that were selected in the pilot and once the next projects will be selected in this call these stories will also be reflected there and if you still have any questions about the open call after reading the open call and the guidelines you can consult the document frequently asked questions on our website and you can also join our bi-weekly help desk sessions where the Perform Europe team will be able to answer any questions that you might have they will be online on Zoom every Tuesday morning from 10 to 11 Central European time and you find the link to register on our website we are now coming towards the end of the official launch event of Perform Europe as a closing word to thank all the speakers for their contributions HowlRound that has kindly assisted us in the live streaming of the event the international sign language interpreters and live text captioner for improving the accessibility of the event and last but not least all of you for your attendance and attention we really hope we have brought to you the enthusiasm we have for this open call and we warmly invite you to spread the word again, subscribe to our newsletter and social medias like and share and check out our new website and register and create profile on the website and of course become part of the Perform Europe journey and reimagine international touring with us thank you so much for being with us today and stay tuned