Short Description
MEGA – Music Effort for Green Activism is a residence, capacity-building and dissemination project aiming to use music for awareness and action towards climate injustice, ecology, and the environment. MEGA analyses, selects and highlights music best practices, projects and artefacts that positively impact the environment, driving actions and innovations for community-based initiatives.
The project addresses artists and music professionals, artistic curators, and cultural organisers, from 18 to 50 years of age, who wish to delve into creative project production and sustainability skills, either to improve or to gain them from scratch.
Eligibility
The Open Call is addressed to Italian and European citizens between 18 and 50 years old who work with sound, as artists or professionals in the music industry.
Submission Requirements
- Personal Info
- Motivational Letter
- CV
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
A total of ten European and/or Swedish participants will be admitted; however, only five of them will receive a fixed financial contribution. The selection will be made at the sole discretion of the evaluation team, and its decision shall be final and not subject to appeal.
For the five Swedish and/or European citizens awarded the financial contribution, expenses for travel, accommodation, and lunch will be covered from October 6–10 in Castrignano De’ Greci, near KORA.
The contribution budget is managed by Musichelp.
Masterclasses and workshops will be held at KORA, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 3.30 to 6.30 pm, from the 7th to the 10th October 2025. Further information can be found at this link (hyperlink pagina LEARN del sito mega)
Group Workshops (October 8–9): participants are encouraged to engage in group work; however, the possibility of developing projects individually is also permitted.
Subject to participants’ prior consent, the creative works produced during the workshops will be publicly presented during AVANT Festival 2025 in Lecce, and will be digitally disseminated in the RESOURCES section of the website mega-project.net.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Italy
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 25 August 2025
Website Link: https://www.mega-project.net/en/open-call-en/
