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Roundtable Discussions on Greening European Film Policy

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0200

Greening European Film Policy (GEFP) explores the burgeoning field of environmentally sustainable - ‘green’ - production in the European film industries. The project views green production as both an ethical proposition and a means to ensure the competitiveness of the European film industry - under which we include film, television, and streaming media. We position green production as a unique and as-yet unexplored competitive advantage for the film sector, where advanced development, embedding, and dissemination of green production practices is a crucial factor in maintaining the competitiveness, if not the very viability, of the European film industries.

GEFP focuses on mapping ongoing policy initiatives for green production and evaluate how the dynamics of top-down governance and horizontal policy and communication incentivise, deploy, and assess on-the-ground practice. We collaborate with key stakeholders across the UK and European green film and television sector, including policymakers, environmental consultants, production companies, and creatives to provide policy recommendations to incentivize a more sustainable sector.

Daniel Antal, CFA, was participating in the panel presentations and discussions on behalf of Reprex and presented the ideas behind the Eviota project.

The Budapest event was orgnanised by Dr Pietari Kääpä, University of Warwick, Policy Support Fund, Laurent, and GreenEyes Productions.

Questions for Film Funds and Policies

What are the current norms regarding funding and policy requirements around sustainability?
What challenges do you face in implementing or imposing sustainability policies?
Are there ways in which you might benefit from more communication or understanding of on-set experience from a sustainability POV?
Are there ways in which you might benefit from more regional or international collaboration, or is funding an inherently localized issue?
We mainly talked about sustainability from a production POV so far, where do you think featuring it as part of the storyline has relevance / potential? Is the film fund considering similar changes to what happened internationally (BFI, Eurimage etc.) where the funding applications require to elaborate on any planned sustainable practices?
What models do you think work well in other countries, that you think would be realistic to implement in the region and what is needed in order to implement it?

Data Observatory Labs

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:40:00 +0100

Check out our slides. We are still looking for certain partners.

DataInnoLab is a cooperation of 6 innovative SMEs and startups, a non-profit cultural venue and non-profit cultural heritage organization and ESCP, a leading European Business school which aims to support two important Creative Europe strategic objectives.

DataInnoLab wants to increase the competitiveness and economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audio-visual sector, in a way that mainstreams environmental and social sustainability management.
We also want to help the development and promotion of European cooperation on cultural diversity and heritage in a way that removes institutional, technical, and semantic barriers between the cooperation of the commercial music and audiovisual industry and the music and audiovisual heritage organizations and their supporting institutions.

The DataInnoLab Consortium aims to provide business development tools for the music and audiovisual industry and its supporting heritage and other organizations to leverage the existing instruments of the Culture and Media Strand of the Creative Europe program and the broader New European Bauhaus instruments with higher market revenues and better access to green financing, green investments and insurance.

Our innovators bring into this project early stage products, prototypes, and open source software that can be further developed, packaged into services which are tested in multiple European markets, and eventually scaled for the entire EU internal market and beyond.

In this project, European innovative startups and SMEs will work with the ESCP Business School, a transnational business school for higher education with urban campuses in Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland, and its prestigious Blue Factory, its transnational start-up incubator. Established in 1819, ESCP is the world’s oldest business school and celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2019. ESCP Business School has particular expertise in three key academic areas, namely sustainability, entrepreneurship and digitalisation with a foundation of international management.

Our Proposal Data: Open Innovation Labs

Project Acronym: DataInnoLab
Call: CREA-CROSS-2023-INNOVLAB
Funding scheme: CREA-PJG
Proposal ID: SEP-210944562

Table of Contents

WP 1 Coordination

WP 2 Sustainability

WP 3 Competitiveness

WP 4 Open Data

WP 5 Scaling Up

Potential partners

Creative enterprises with good YouTube (+Vimeo and other) distribution and rights management track record.
Market research, particularly survey based in film and television.
Services for private collections/collectors.

Who are we?

In 90 secs: conceptual introduction

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Music Eviota

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:13:00 +0200

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Introduction 2. Our Approach 3. Main Features 4. Connected Financial and Sustainability Reporting 5. Why are we developing it? 6. Is There a Film/TV Industry Version? 7. Questions

Introduction

Our approach

Main Features

Connected Financial and Sustainability Reporting

Why Are We Developing Eviota for Music?

Is There A Film Industry Version?

Yes, it is coming! Ask for a demo on Email | Keybase | LinkedIn.

Questions?

Ask: Email | Keybase

LinkedIn: Daniel Antal | Reprex

LineCheck, Milano, IT

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:15:00 +0000

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Green Deal, this time for real

Daniel Antal, co-founder of Reprex will participate in the panel about on Thursday, November the 24th at 3.15pm about environment and sustainability in the music industry and introduce Eviota, our simplified, connected financial and sustainability reporting tool.

At LineCheck X, you can find out more about our projects

You can get a free, total value chain based sustainability report. (Get in touch with us before 18 November)
We will demonstrate how you can eradicate packaging waste from your music events by making the packaging edible.
And you can find out how we are trying to find where energy is going down the sewage, literally, with Thermowatt and the Green Deal Data Observatory.

Beta test our sustainabilitiy reporting tool

We are looking for beta testers for our simplified sustainability report that is made from your trial balance. We sign and NDA about your accounting data if you test with us, and you can test with older data, too. Beta testing is free.

Our solution benefits the music MSMEs and CSOs in several ways:

The European Commission estimates that the cost of connecting sustainability and finanical reporting will cost on average €10,000 for corporations. We want to bring down the voluntary reporting costs for MSMEs below €500 euro to benefit from green loans, green insurance and other green financing.
It provides them with a size adequate sustainability management and reporting tool that helps first the management of greenhouse gas emissions, and later sustainable water use, pollutions, biodiversity, and recycling in their entire value chain (for example, it flags environmental risks in the supply base of a festival including equipment rentals, transport, security firms, catering facilities, etc.) by connecting standard accounting documents of the MSME with SNA and EEA science based benchmarks.
Our system will be extendible to management of social sustainability. We are also showcasing harmonized gender inequality data collection with our other project (see below.)

Digital Music Observatory: survive in the music business without a data engineer

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We will introduce Surveyharmonies, a survey recycling and survey harmonization tool. You can participate in our international gender bias survey in January 2023. Our team will also participate in the KeyChange Creative Lab on Friday, 25 November at 11.00.
You can learn about our Listen Local project, which helps local music ecosystems remain visible on global platforms.
We will offer you a cup of tea or coffee in an edible cup.

Harmonizing surveys on gender (in)equaliaty

You can create better surveys with less cost: you only need to ask the information, or change of information, that is not included in our harmonized datasets. Shorter, better questionnaires, smaller samples sizes, huge cost savings.
When you make questionnaire-based research, you immediately get a history (the same question asked years ago) and an international comparison (the same question asked in other countries.)
Often you do not even have to pay for the survey, because somebody else has already made a similar taxpayer funded research and we can just get the data for you.

Survey harmonization is a powerful research tool to increase the usability of questionnaire-based empirical research. Read more on our blog.

Developing a software-as-service solution for micro-, and small enterprises

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 09:40:00 +0100

Engage with us on LinkedIn @DigitalMusicObs or check out our open data and open repositories, code, tutorials

The music sector must increase its environmental and social (ESG) sustainability management to meet the challenges of the climate emergency and to make the music sector a fairer, more just workplace for womxn and artists coming from minorities, small countries. The European Union will make target setting and audited reporting mandatory in environmental and social sustainability for large companies. The application of these new accounting, reporting and disclosure rules are optional for the music sector where almost all entities are micro-, or small enterprises and civil society organizations.

Even if music organizations are not pushed by regulators to adopt these new standards, it is in their best interest to take the initiative on the principle of subsidiarty, and develop tools that can be applied as an extension to their simplified financial and tax reporting. Music organizations and businesses that can prove that they are making progress in reducing their carbon footprint, making their water use more sustainable, and they provide equal opportunities for womxn, they will be eligible for new, green bank and insurance products (which are particularly important in live music) and can attract new sponsors and donors.

Compliance with these new rules is very costly, because tools are being developed for stock-exchange listed big companies and financial institutions. The Commission’s impact assessment (SWD/2021/150 final) estimates the cost of compliance with the Corporate Social Responsibility Directive exceeding 4 bn euros for the European companies or around 10,000 euros per company. Reprex, working together with large accounting, audit and value-based banking partners, scientific, research and industry partners in the Digital Music Observatory open knowledge collaboration, hopes to bring down this cost below 500 euros, which will immediately pay off when a music organization receives green money.

We are working on a simple interface that can connect the accounting system of micro and small enterprises with new methodologies, starting with greenhouse gas reporting with Reprex’s open source EEIO application iotables. We will keep many aspects of our software and data solution open, so that later methodological innovations and scientific achievements can be easily incorporated into the system. Reprex’s minimum viable product will be created in four iteration rounds in Malta, Czechia, Bulgaria and Belgium. However, our testing is open for any amount of donations to any music entities in the European Union who can provide input data in English or Dutch, or be able to pay for their translation and localization costs.

Link: Final List of Awareded Projects by MusicAIRE