The network’s cultural workers foster collaboration, exchange information, and develop projects, while amplifying the Nordic-Baltic innovative music realm, with showcases planned in the future. The 2025 – 2027 working period will include internal seminars and brainstorming to strengthen skills related to digitalisation, economic sustainability, and creativity in production and promotion. It will also focus on mutual promotion among partner festivals – which include CTM Festival and Out.ra as nodes outside the region – aiming to create a shared info space for like-minded event organisers, musicians, and listeners in Nordic and Baltic countries.
Current NERDS member organisations are:
- Alter Festival (Aarhus, Denmark)
- CTM festival (Berlin, Germany)
- Drifts Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
- Extreme Chill (Reykjavik, Iceland)
- Insomnia Festival (Tromsø, Norway)
- INTONAL Festival (Malmö, Sweden)
- Kontula Electronic (Helsinki, Finland)
- Nonagon Festival (Ådalen, Sweden)
- Norbergfestival (Norberg, Sweden)
- OUT.FEST (Barreiro, Portugal)
- Ekko Festival (Bergen, Norway)
- Skaņu Mežs (Riga, Latvia)
- Skrapt Festival (Tórshavn, Faroe Islands)
- Üle Heli (Tallinn, Estonia)
NERDS is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.