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Cremona, Italy

June 2025 (exact dates TBC)

Mapping Europe's (Live) Music Ecosystems

Spend 5 days in Italy with students from across Europe learning about live music and developing your data literacy.

(Applications deadline Friday 7th February)

We are pleased to offer suitable undergraduate SotA students the opportunity to take part in this exciting European Erasmus project.

Project Outline

Data collection, collation and analysis is now embedded in every aspect of music industries operation. From registering rights, to promoting projects, to measuring the sustainability of events, most musicians and music industry professionals need fundamental data literacy.

This project is an excellent opportunity for students considering music industries/policy research as a postgraduate degree in a music related field or developing a career in the music or wider creative industries. Students who have previously worked on the Liverpool only project have used the experience and skills gained in successful applications for full time roles at Sentric Music, Ditto Music, and Virgin Records. The added benefit of this international project is the opportunity to network with other European students interested in music ecosystems and collaborate with them to develop a shared practical insight into how the music industries operate globally. 

In the past decade, music sector mapping has emerged as an effective research methodology to establish, monitor and evaluate the impact of music industries activity on society, culture and the economy.  The Live Music Mapping Project (LMMP) is a pan-European project that uses cases study locations in different countries to compare the similarities and differences and the shared challenges music ecosystems encounter. As part of a European Commission funded European Blended Intensive Programme, the project will bring you together with students from Universities of Pavia (Italy), University of Rotterdam (Netherlands) and University of Porto (Portugal) to participate in training to develop data collection, collation and analysis skills on live music sectors.

There are two phases to the project:

  1. An online knowledge building phase with some short sessions on Teams in Spring 2025 introducing you to diverse digital mapping methodologies and enabling everyone to get to know each other. 
  2. A 5 day in-person programme at the University of Pavia in Bologna (Italy) in June 2025. This will focus on practical in-field data experimentation using new digital applications to build and apply skills and knowledge in collaborative geospatial data collection and analysis.

Eligibility

  • You must be a registered University of Liverpool undergraduate student in the School of the Arts. Students from any year may apply; third years/final year have priority.
  • Incoming students on an exchange semester or exchange year are ineligible. Students who have previously been on a departmental GO short trip are ineligible. Students who have been on, or have been awarded, a University/SOTA international experience that is a non-departmental short trip are lower priority.
  • You must be able to commit to attending all preliminary training on Teams during Spring 2025 (dates tbc)
  • You must be able to commit to the full trip, which includes 5 full days in Italy, plus additional travel days in June 2025 (dates tbc).
  • Your application must make clear how the music industry and/or data literacy relates to your studies and career interest and specifically how attendance taking part in this project will support this.

The support you may receive:

  • The support offered towards accommodation and/or travel is in line with Turing guidance which specifies a higher amount of support for those with WP status.

If offered support for the trip, you must confirm acceptance within 7 days.

Things to note

Be aware that coordinating with fellow students over hostel accommodation may be a way to help you to keep costs down. Some information on accommodation options may be communicated by the organisers after the full programme details have been released. You will be informed if this is the case.

Any student who confirms their attendance but does not proceed with the trip will be required to refund to the University all financial support. This refund must be settled no later than June 2025. Please be aware that graduating students must have any outstanding financial matters settled before they can graduate.

You will be required to complete a short post-trip report within 10 days of your trip. This form will be sent to you in June.

How to apply

Please complete the application form below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ENYy25eXxH

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Forms must be completed no later than Friday 7th February 2025 to have the greatest chance of success.

If you have any questions, please contact matf73@liverpool.ac.uk