The University of Economics in Bratislava, represented by prof. Dipl. Ing. Ferdinand Daňo, PhD., signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights Society (SOZA), Sinus and Reprex on utilizing Open Policy Analysis results.
The cooperation is established under the OpenMusE Horizon Europe project, which is implemented in Slovakia at the EUBA Faculty of Business Management under the leadership of PhDr. Mária Kmety Barteková, PhD.
This cooperation of 15 partners from all over Europe is a very important milestone, for the research will be used in an official national policy context.
The project purports to create a document on music economy, on diversity and circulation, on music and society, and on music innovation in a national policy context. Our work will be used to monitor the implementation of the Cultural and Creative Industries Strategy of the Slovak Republic 2030, thus contributing to enhancing cultural policy in Slovakia. Over the course of three years, we would like to persuade more and more national policymakers and also regional actors (such as the city of Trenčín, the European Capital of Culture in 2026), in cooperation with our foreign partners, to use this collaborative open knowledge platform as a prototype of a European Music Observatory.
More information can be found on the project's website: https://music.dataobservatory.eu/
Photographs by: Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights Society
