PROJECT
PROJEKT
MUSIC AMBASSADOR
Berlin on the way to partners
The Music Ambassador Programme promotes the international networking of Berlin’s music industry players and musicians and strengthens the internationalization of the Berlin music scene and the business location as a whole.
Funding is provided for travel projects abroad by Berlin players in the music industry and Berlin musicians. One focus is on network exchange and cooperation between music networks. A Music Ambassador is tasked with representing Berlin as a music location internationally and submitting a short report and the results of the trip at the end of the trip.
CURRENT OPEN CALLS
The open call for the general Music Ambassador program will run until May 20th 2025. An info call on the programme will take place on 07 May at 10 a.m. via Zoom. Register here.
Currently there is an open call for a delegation trip to Pop x Kosmos in Chemnitz to the german czech music dialogue. Applications are possible here until April 30 at 12:00 AM.
The Targetgroup
Our program is aimed at all active participants in Berlin’s music industry – from artists who set up commercial cooperation projects to professional music industry players such as labels, publishers, booking agencies and management.
As part of a cooperation with Musicboard Berlin, musicians who set up creative cooperation projects can also be supported.
If you have any questions about the program or about our ambassadors, please contact us at musicambassador(at)berlin-music-commission.de.
Delegation Delegation Pop x Kosmos
In the European Capital of Culture, Chemnitz, German and Czech music professionals come together to network, exchange ideas, and forge new collaborations. Applications for Delegate participation are now open.
The offer is aimed at music companies and solo entrepreneurs from Germany and the Czech Republic who want to network across borders and collaborate.
Expect inspiring discussions with key players from the German and Czech music industries, exciting insights into music export and initiatives, and a diverse live program as part of KOSMOS Chemnitz and POPxKOSMOS.
WHEN? June 13th 2025, 3.00 PM until June 14th 10:00 AM
WHERE? Stadtwirtschaft Chemnitz /// Jakobstraße 46, 09130 Chemnitz
Apply for participation now until April 30th 2025, 12.00 AM!
Travel grant program 2025:
Are you interested in international travel, new networks and strengthening Berlin’s music industry?
The Berlin Music Commission’s Music Ambassador Program has been in existence for eleven years and will be announced again in 2025. After a successful pilot last year, the partnership with Musicboard Berlin is again expanding the programme’s target group: in addition to stakeholders from the Berlin music industry (music professionals), Berlin-based musicians from the pop music sector can also apply. Applications from teams consisting of one musician and one music professional are also welcome again this year.
As an applicant, you must have your place of business or residence in Berlin. The trip must take place between June 8 2025 and November 30 2025. If you are selected, you will be reimbursed part of the travel costs as support.
Apply by May 20th! We are looking forward to your submissions.
Results
Music Ambassadors (travel grant program)
- 2020
- 2021 (No travel possible due to Covid-19)
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024 – first round
- 2024 – second round
Delegation trips:
- 2021 – ACCESS, Johannesburg Southafrica
- 2023 – ARMC, Johannesburg Southafrica
- 2023 – WOMEX, A Coruna Spain+
- 2024 – WOMEX, Manchester
Further Project Activities:
Internationalization resources
We are building up an overview of further information (programmes, overviews, strategies for internationalization) here. If you have any suggestions, please contact musicambassador[@]berlin-music-commission.de.
Other funding opportunities
- IBB Berlin – Programm für Internationalisierung – Promotion of SME projects
- Grants for the implementation of internationalisation strategies (IBB awards grants to support the internationalisation of companies.
- Musicboard Berlin – Supporttourförderung. This programme supports up-and-coming Berlin musicians and bands in the field of pop music who are planning to go on tour nationally or internationally as a support act with a better-known group or individual musician.
- Musicboard Berlin – Residenzprogramm (enables Berlin pop musicians to work in Germany and abroad as well as co-creation residency formats). Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion: Travel grants for projects abroad (open-ended grants for travel and transport in connection with outstanding presentation projects abroad in cooperation with suitable foreign partners of international cultural exchange, with the aim of high-profile presentation formats, e.g. exhibitions, concerts, guest performances).
- Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion: Kulturaustauschstipendien des Landes Berlin Global (open-discipline scholarships for the artistic training and further development of professional artists for artistic projects in collaboration with a cooperation partner at locations of their choice worldwide).
- GERMAN MUSIC EXPORT:
- Through various international activities such as collaborations with international showcase festivals, active membership in international networks such as EMEE and ESNS EXCHANGE, and by offering its own funding programmes (International Tour Funding, DO! Export and GO! Export), GERMAN MUSIC EXPORT offers musicians and music professionals based in Germany various opportunities to strengthen their visibility abroad and expand their own network on an international level.
- CULTURE MOVES EUROPE: Currently no open calls. Culture Moves Europe offers mobility grants for artists and cultural professionals in all 40 countries of Creative Europe. It covers the fields of architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts and visual arts. The scheme follows the successful i-Portunus pilot project that took place between 2018 and 2022.
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Ressources
- MUSIC MOBILITY FUNDING GUIDE – FOCUS ON EUROPE
- On The Move
- On The Move (Mobility Funding Guides)
- Live DMA Resources Platform
- Footprints – Resources Platform
- Guide to Export: A highly comprehensive guide that you can use to better understand the huge number of factors that come together when exporting your (or someone else’s) music. There’s a lot of elements to consider, but this straightforward guide breaks it down into manageable chunks to help you get started on your export journey.
Information (Membership/Subscription)
- Lighthouse – Membership organisation for Expert Export advice and resources including budget templates.
- Gig Life Pro: The Inside Info On All Things in Asia Pacific (Membership Platform)
- Music Ally publishes profiles on the main and emerging music markets around the world (available with Subscription). The reports include the latest data, growth forecasts, trends, charts, and interviews with key market figures.
The European Music Export resource centre
- Music Export manual: Ein ausführlicher Übersichts-Seite mit Hinweisen und weiteren Ressourcen.
- “Developing European Music Export Capacity” (Author: Virgo Sillamaa created between September 2022 and July 2023.)
Market Profiles & Reports:
- France COUNTRY PROFILE
- Italy
- Estonia
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Iceland
- Mexican music industry Market report
- Electronic Music in Mexico
- China music industry market report (Jani Joenniemi)
- South-Africa music industry Market report
- Canada music industry market report (Nuno Saraiva)
- USA music industry Market report
Worldwide
The following map shows you where our Music Ambassadors have already traveled and which event they attended. Please click on the location.
The Music Ambassador Program is carried out on behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises.
