Since Saturday, June 28, 2025, the European Accessibility Act requires that products and services—including live music—be adapted for people with disabilities, opening up new opportunities for the industry and posing structural adaptation challenges.
The next edition will take place in Naples from November 27th to 29th. You can access the call for entries until July 15th.
The 2025 summer campaign is driving up job demand in the festival sector: companies like Randstad will manage more than 2,000 vacancies in Spain, especially in catering, customer service, and logistics.
The British government has unveiled a music growth package worth up to £30 million as part of its new Creative Industries Sector Plan. This initiative seeks to optimize support for artists, venues, and streaming professionals, with the aim of strengthening both domestic talent and the United Kingdom’s international cultural leadership.
According to data from the Ministry of Culture and Sport, this increase represents 3.6% of total employment in the country, consolidating the sector’s recovery after the health crisis. In 2019, cultural employment stood at 710,000 workers, while in 2024 the figure has reached 771,000, thus surpassing pre-pandemic levels.
The INAEM (National Institute of Statistics and Census) has launched a call for grants for 2025, with a budget of €8,058,172. Six lines of support are maintained, but grants for concert halls have been eliminated, allowing more entities to access funding. New features include limits on budget deviations and new evaluation criteria, prioritizing projects in areas affected by the DANA (Dana), and implementing sustainability and LGBTQ+ equality measures.
On February 28, the Ministry of Culture opened the application period for the 2025 “Grants to Non-Profit Entities for Cultural Action and Promotion.” The provisional funding is €1.99 million, with the possibility of an increase.
The Ministry of Culture has launched a comprehensive reform of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM) with the aim of modernizing its organizational structure and improving its management. This reform includes the creation of the General Directorate of Performing Arts and Music, which will assume responsibility for promotion, heritage, and sectoral coordination, separating them from the work of artistic production and exhibition.
Yesterday, Wednesday, February 5, the president of the federation, Soco Collado, attended the event convened by the Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, together with the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, as a meeting with the performing, audiovisual and musical arts sector for the presentation of the main new features of the proposal to regulate the working conditions of artists, technicians and assistants.
