FEDORA - How it works

Thanks to the fedora
platform you can now

Support innovation and creativity to move the art forms of opera and ballet forward
Be inspired by artistic creativity
Experience the behind the scenes
Get to know the choreographers, composers, librettists, stage directors, costume designers, ...
Discover the ecosystem of cultural organisations
Support emerging talent to reach the stage

Vision and mission

The FEDORA Platform showcases and supports excellence and renewal in the field of opera and ballet.
The Platform provides visibility and funding to innovative co-productions created by emerging artists that are still in the making, and education programmes.
Alongside nurturing European innovation and creativity, FEDORA ’s mission is to increase opera and ballet’s accessibility and reach out to a wider audience by harnessing the digital shift.

Project plan

Year 1

2017

— 2018

The FEDORA Platform

Set-up of the FEDORA Platform making innovative opera and ballet projects of excellence more visible and accessible to the general public, and to promote the involvement and interaction with younger audiences through an online voting and donating system.
Year 2

2018

— 2019

Education Prize

Launch of a FEDORA Education Prize awarding innovative opera and ballet education projects encouraging social integration and intercultural dialogue.
Year 3

2019

— 2020

Digital Prize

Launch of a FEDORA Digital Prize together with a Platform App enabling mobile donations and increased interactions with a larger audience.
Year 4

2020

— 2021

European Onling Giving App

Launch of an online transnational giving system in collaboration with Transnational Giving Europe that will allow simplified online cross-border donations and facilitate philanthropy across Europe

Impact and statistics

Over a four-year period, this European initiative will lead the way in advocating new funding models for the performing arts, by creating a sustainable eco-system between the cultural and economic sector and by setting up the structural, social, and economic conditions necessary to guarantee the future of the cultural heritage of opera and ballet in Europe.

The European Platform will build on the FEDORA association’s current efforts to renew and nurture the art forms of opera and ballet on an artistic and economic level. This will involve 26 Platform Members in 14 countries, with the potential to grow over time (FEDORA’s existing network consists of 80 cultural organizations in 20 countries) and will be reaching out via a major pan-European on- and offline communication and branding campaign to reach out to approx. 4 million people.