Project Management and Coordination

Project Management: Scheduling and coordinating; Publishing the open calls, coordinating their dissemination, evaluating proposals, coordinating jury sessions for selection, informing selected members, monitoring the project implementation and supervising their implementation; Conducting ongoing monitoring and producing evaluations about the project execution.  Details will be updated during the year here.

Artists and Cultural Professionals: Empowering the cultural and creative sectors via Annual Summits and Publisher Meetings

IMPF Music publisher members will run the yearly events namely the IMPF Global Music Summit in Palma and other activities such as hub meetings. The main objective of the events is networking, B2B, knowledge sharing, creator promotion.  The events are subject to open calls with inclusion and gender balance an objective for all events.   Details will be updated during the year here.

Culture for Digital Transformation: Helping the European cultural and creative sectors to fully take advantage of new technologies to enhance their competitiveness via Publisher Development Projects

The IMPF Network Project team will select and award the proposals via an Open Call. The selected IMPF members will undertake to execute and promote their projects. These activities take the form of Development Grants awarded to members of IMPF; they are focussed on the international development of creators and professionals and must have a cross-border element of either a creative or business development nature, including composer / songwriter facing activities, or business, technological, data-related activities, staff development or other actions that develop either the publishing member companies’ administration or creative departments. We aim to nurture talent, aid prosperity by generating jobs and growth, through publishing companies’ business development. IMPF will also work with its selected members via a call, to develop a software for rights registrations, royalty accounting and song management; this is a direct result of our work under Network 1’s Digital Development WP and will be hugely beneficial to the entire music publishing community.   Details will be updated during the year here.

Culture for the People: Enhancing cultural participation and the role of culture in society

The aim is to create a space in Brussels for those other networks that do not have permanent representation. We would invite Associations, NGO’s and EU Projects to the Music House. We will host a launch event, annual events, online webinars and internal work meetings to promote the collaboration within our sector.  With this action we aim to promote the rights of music users and rightsholders in the European Union and beyond and enhance collaboration and coordination among music rightsholders to address common challenges and maximize opportunities, particularly in the field of emerging technology.  Ultimately this action will ensure that the concerns and needs of our European industry are effectively conveyed, and that we have a voice in shaping future legislation and regulations.  Details will be updated during the year here.

Culture for the Planet: Unleashing the power of culture via Songwriting Camps

We will host online and in-person songwriting camps.  IMPF and selected publisher members, along with our A&R Producer for the online camps, will launch the calls for participation.  For two of the four planned song camps in Palma, we will work together with ECSA.  The online camps will open up the experience to more writers and composers, without the need for travel – a great capacity building experience for first-timers who have not yet had the benefit, as composers, to experience songwriting camps.  These initiatives offer networking opportunities for songwriters, composers, top-liners, producers to connect with music publishers, industry professionals, and fellow artists encouraging collaborations, publishing deals, and career advancement within the music industry.  The camps foster creativity, collaboration, as well as innovation in music creation.  Details will be updated during the year here.

Culture for co-creative partnerships: Strengthening the cultural dimension of EU external relations via Publisher International Missions

IMPF will promote international trade missions and visits for its members – independent music publishers. In principle, collaborations will be pursued with EMEE – European Music Exporters Exchange and MPC – Music Publishers Canada. IMPF aims to have publishers participate in international missions, with the objective of acquiring market knowledge and business opportunities both in new sub-publishing or publishing administration deals, but also in synch licensing – procuring new avenues for licensing European music into film, TV, advertising and gaming productions. In the event that some international IMPF missions are realized in collaboration with EMEE, we also envisage online training sessions to participating export offices.  Through this action, IMPF anticipates four webinars, one per year, aimed simultaneously at the export communities as well as the less-developed publishing markets in more peripheral territories that can participate online.  Details will be updated during the year here.

Communications and Dissemination

IMPF will work on B2B and B2C levels, producing a communications plan focused on PR and social media and the key messaging is generally linked to the objective of “facing common challenges” as a sector.  IMPF will also rely on its membership to further propagate comms, with the objective of reaching the entire music publishing community. For our Network Project 2.0 we are enhancing Communications by adding an editorial hub connected to IMI (Independent Music Insider) platform for use by our members.

Details will be updated during the year  here.