AVnode | LPM 2015 > 2018 is admitted, amongst 127 applications submitted, to the Creative Europe Culture Program for European Large Scale Cooperation Projects (http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/opportunities/culture-support/cooperation_en.htm), and this means that we have the chance to improve and develop our project for three years, starting from June 2015 until June 2018, along with our engaged partners across Europe.

AVnode | LPM 2015 > 2018 project foresees the production of 1 Meeting, 1 Audience Development Conference and 12 festivals for each of the 3 years, besides 200 satellite events. Each festival host 1 artist as extra feature, so at least 630 selected guest artists are promoted by the partners across Europe.

AVnode | LPM 2015 > 2018 reach this estimated numbers over the 3 years, 3.000 artists, 500.000 people during the events and at least 10.000.000 of people with the communication plan.

AVnode | LPM 2015 > 2018 is a cooperation project between 13 partners from 12 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey and United Kingdom, aimed to promote and develop live video culture to European and worldwide audience with 14 events per year.

UPDATES: The success story of AVnode LPM 2015 > 2018 in numbers:

47 events, 3 Meetings, 3 Audience Development Conferences and 38 festivals (exceeding the grant proposal by 2) over 3 years in 12 countries

3.000 digital artists/creators moved around Europe beside the 630 expected in the grant project. The development of new networks, skills and knowledge, the pathway to new initiatives at local and international level.

286.000 People attended

1 AVnode Online Environment was born bringing together over 20.000 AV Artists and 300 user organizations and thousands of visitors everyday

Over 3.000 partners from legal institutions, universities, media outlets, business companies, festivals and projects from all over the world involved in 47 events

168 Networking activities beside the 45 expected in the grant project

100 Communication activities beside the 49 expected in the grant project

40 Schools/universities in the field of cultural & creative industries involved beside the 20 expected in the grant project.

90 Local, regional and national institutions involved beside the 30 expected in the grant project

150.000 General public visiting the events beside the 70.000 expected in the grant project

120.000 Students visiting the events beside the 30.000 expected in the grant project

10.000 Artists beside the 5000 expected in the grant project

6.000 Cultural & specialist experts visiting the events beside the 1000 expected in the grant project.

2.000 Staff from educational institutions involved beside the 1000 expected in the grant project

2.000 Staff from local, regional and national institutions involved beside the 1000 expected in the grant project

From quantitative to qualitative effects of the partnership:

Athens Digital Arts Festival is selected as EFFE Laureates (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe). EFFE is a celebration of festivals which are recognised for their exceptional quality, work, commitment and impact within their contexts and territories.

7 new events were born.

Increase in the number of artists commissions.

The partners have made several co-productions and launched the worldwide tour of the project together with some other artists.

The project was a guest as a model example in many festivals and events in Europe and beyond.

Created space for dialogue and exchange of information and ideas among visual artists from Europe and all over the world.

Through workshops, masterclasses, lectures and open meetings, the project encouraged:
- the research, experiments, encounters between the different forms of artistic expression (e.g. electronic music to visuals, visuals to video mapping),
- Stimulated creative process of the artists
- the interaction of the manifolds techniques,
- fusion of digital and analogical technologies,
- learning new software and hardware in almost all the partners events.

During the residencies, new open source softwares and patches (specifically, touch designer) were created, presented during the events and utilised by artists in the performances.

Technical and technological skills (e.g. softwares used to create video mapping and the practical tasks following to install it) of the artists were expanded during the workshops.

We celebrate our ability to foster a dialogue between cultural and scientific, educational, business, policy and other sectors, since diverse collaboration is the only means to bring about a cultural change.

The positive effects on some of the partner institutions e.g. universities programmes are added with innovative elements on the recent technological advancements that foster students interest and expand skills.