7 EJN
7.1 Motivation to join We asked respondents to tell us why their organisation is a member of EJN, and asked them to rank 5 possible answers in order of importance. 7.1.1 National organisations For 5 respondent national organisations, the most important reason to be an EJN member was to network with national organisations from outside their home country, relatively closely followed by networking with non-national organisations from outside their home country. As might be expected, networking with national and non-national organisations from their own country came a lower ranked third and fourth place, with reasons classified as ‘other’ last placed, including “The fact that it enriches our organisation to meet the variety of arrangers, festivals and others related to jazz in Europe. This you can’t put in boxes.” The pan-European platform for knowledge sharing was emphasised by all three respondents quoting other reasons for joining EJN. The relative strength of each answer is demonstrated here:
National organisations' reasons to join EJN 7.1.2 Festivals and venues
Networking with festivals, venues and promoters based outside your country Networking with festivals, venues and promoters based within your country Networking with national organisations based within your country Other
Figure 24
Sample size: 5
Relative importance
Similarly to national organisations, the 40 respondent non-national organisations’ primary reason to join EJN was to network with their type of organisation (i.e. festivals, venues and promoters) based outside their country. This was followed by them wanting to network with national organisations from outside their country. As the charts above and below demonstrate, national organisations were more interested in networking with festivals outside their own country than festivals and venues were in networking with national organisations outside their own country, which is probably reflective of the relative priorities for these organisations.
Festivals' and venues' reasons to join EJN Networking with festivals, venues and promoters based outside your country
Reason
Reason
Networking with national organisations based outside your country
Networking with national organisations based outside your country Networking with festivals, venues and promoters based within your country Networking with national organisations based within your country Other Sample size: 40
Figure 25 Relative importance 55