Appendix 6 - International Music Council

Chancellery and main institutions in the music sector. The aim is to promote distribution
and marketing of professional Austrian music productions in Austria and abroad with
600. 000 € per year. (http://www.musikfonds.at/ )
The Vienna City Council founded the "Departure wirtschaft, kunst und kultur gmbh"
("departure economy, arts and culture Ltd.") in 2003. This is meant to be an economic
support and service office for the approximately 18.000 enterprises in the creative industry
in Vienna. "Departure" has been granting subsidies of 7 million € in the period 2004-2005
in the fields of fashion, music, multimedia and design.
(http://www.departure.at/projects/departure/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=)
BULGARIA
"In the past few years, the culture industries in Bulgaria have been increasingly perceived
as a sector with an important contribution to local, regional and national development, and
an impact on the local labour market. A Council of Europe funded pilot project on
"Cultural Diversity and Cultural Enterprise" was
launched in Bulgaria in 2001. This
project implemented in close co-operation with the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre was
designed to analyse Bulgaria's potential in the sphere of culture industries and identify
possibilities for their development. Culture industries include traditional industries (radio
and television, recording industry, filmmaking and publishing), as well as cultural
activities which are on the boundary between traditional arts and new flexible forms of
creativity in the media, advertising and design. Stage two of this project (carried out in
2002) targeted media and enterprise in this field; developing specific models of funding
and, in the longer term, creating an agency for the development of the culture industries.
The development of culture industries at the regional and local level is also a priority in
projects under the PHARE Economic and Social Integration Program (education and
establishment of information centres for the Roma population). In the period 2003-2004, 19
regional projects were implemented under PHARE (BG 0102.03) - "Development of
Cultural Tourism in Bulgaria " with a total budget of 4 726 000 euro." (quoted from
ericarts Bulgaria p. 13f.)
CROATIA
Tourism is a little bit connected with music, klappa singers are employed for advertising on
tourist exhibitions.
Music is not valued too the same extent as sports is from an economic
perspective.
EU
The European Union supports music networks, especially the networking of national music
export offices, which already
exist or are about to be set up in a lot of European countries
(e.g. France,
Finland, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Norway, Sweden, United
Kingdom). These offices are often set up on the initiative of the national music industries
and often receive assistance from public bodies. A good example is the FMEO - French
Music Export Office, a non-profit organization aiming to promote French music abroad. It
coordinates French representation at all the major international tradeshows, helps in
creating links between French and international businesses in the music industry in a
network of offices in 9 countries worldwide. It provides financial support to record
companies for promotion, tours and the production and adaptation of videos for export
markets. Funding comes from French record companies, the French government (the
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