European Music Festivals, Public Spaces and Cultural Diversity
FestiVersities is a multi-sited research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research programme under the Horizon 2020 scheme Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe (2019-2022). The project critically interrogates the relationship between culture, public space and social integration in music festivals in five European countries.
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