MOTIVE — Creative Europe project

EU Project ● Active Creative Europe

Merging Original Traditions Into new Voices of Europe

Countries🇵🇱 Poland · 🇮🇹 Italy · 🇱🇹 Lithuania

ProgramCreative Europe

StatusIn progress

TypeEuropean Cooperation Projects

About the project

The MOTIVE project is built on transnational music collaboration between musicians from three European countries: Italy, Poland and Lithuania. Its aim is to bridge distances through shared musical experiences of amateur artists travelling across Europe and exploring their native musical traditions.

The result of this collaboration is the co-creation and production of original musical compositions within an international collective of musicians — where diverse cultural traditions become the source of a new, unique sound.

Project goals

Strengthening training and professionalisation of amateur musicians, particularly developing skills in green and digital transformation of the music industry and fostering entrepreneurship.

Promoting transnational experiences and building connections through musician mobility, creating networks of professionals collaborating at an international level.

Valorisation of national heritage and intercultural dialogue through the exchange of musical knowledge and traditions. The project includes research, co-creation and co-production of original music based on diverse cultural heritages.

Project results

MOTIVE Collective — As part of the project, an international collective of musicians from Poland, Italy and Lithuania was formed. The artists jointly explore their native musical traditions and transform them into original compositions, where diverse cultural heritages become the source of a new, unique sound.

MOTIVE Joint Study on European Music Traditions — A nearly 50-page digital document exploring diverse European music traditions: historical instruments, stories of illustrious local musicians, and the most popular music events across partner countries. Available for free online for reuse in academic and informal contexts. Download Document · published 1 July 2025

Audio-visual materials — A collection of interviews with experts, memories and experiences gathered from local communities, traditional musical pieces and extracts from past performances — assembled into a 30-minute audiovisual report documenting the research and co-creation experience. Watch Video · published 1 July 2025

Partners

🇵🇱 CRAVE Music Agency

🇮🇹 Società Beethoven ACAM

🇱🇹 NIDA Culture and Tourism Information Centre AGILA (Coordinator)

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