Status and working conditions for artists and cultural and ceative professionals : Voices of culture report, june 2021

This brainstorming report asks questions about the challenges and opportunities for the status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals. How can new priorities, policies, actions and funding streams better address this issue? In the report, three main areas have been highlighted: firstly, the income for artists and cultural and creative professionals and the status of the artist. The report illustrates ways and means for securing a fair income and strengthening social security in the sector as well as recognising the role and the legal status of the artists across Member States. The second topic of the report concerns mobility of artists and other cultural and creative workers. Based on available individual mobility schemes’ calls and the participants’ experience with different hybrid formats and blended mobility (such as iPortunus andErasmus+) re-thinking mobility has also been discussed in the light of the COVID-19 crisis and climate change.