Fair Practice Policy

system. It is also a very privileged position to be able to give up touring or do slow travel; not many people can make this choice.

Others said that we need to acknowledge that the music ecosystem must adapt itself to climate change, this is simply a fact that cannot be avoided. And although music doesn’t have the biggest ecological footprint, it still has to do its part which doesn’t mean that artists have to take on the biggest load in this. We need to push for change on the systemic level, for example funding for slow travel and for other small changes in working methods. We need to get on board the help of policy-makers and funders.

Other delegates recognised that this is a very emotional and political issue, so it’s important to know the numbers to address the problem correctly. Some projects that are doing this is the Carbon Footprint Assessment by the Jazzé Croisé Association that examined the footprint of nine festivals and venues in France, Netherlands and Norway; the Footprints project in Poland that aimed to combine supporting emerging artists with ecological sustainability; the French National Music Centre’s building of a roadmap for sustainability; and Cove Park’s use of an ecological coordinator as well as funding for slow travel.

Delegates discussed the needed for work to occur on two levels, on the individual level and on a more global level where collaboration is happening with other networks. In this case, there was discussion about initiatives that the EJN has already undertaken, for example ‘Take the Green Train,’ with its Green Manifesto, the EJN Green Pilot Tours! as well as other initiatives coming up next year including web-tools on how to calculate the impact of venues. An idea was raised to collect via email all the European resources available and to share them between members. One delegate asked whether the EJN can organise a space online where we can share best practices. A staff member said there are a few resources already on the EJN website that members can look up.

Fair Practice Policy

With: Jan Pauly (VI.BE, BE) Moderator: Davide Grosso (International Music Council, IT)

Moderator Davide Grosso (International Music Council) began the discussion by giving an overview of the most important international legal frameworks related to artistic fair practice such as the Recommendation on the Status of the Artist (UNESCO, 1980), the Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions (UNESCO, 2005) and the more recent European Parliament resolution of October 2021 on the situation of artists and cultural recovery in the EU.

Following on from this, Jan Pauly from VI.BE, Belgium, presented the Juist is Juist campaign (What’s Right is Right), a national initiative defining clear principles and fair practices for collaboration in the arts sector, across all disciplines. Juist is Juist consists of a toolbox of 4