Artwert - self-employed in the cultural industry: further education and counselling

Berlin Music Commission - Network of the Berlin music industry

ClubConsult - consulting agency for clubs and event organisers, project of Clubcommission Berlin e.V.

Kreativ Kultur Berlin - advice centre for cultural and creative professionals

Kulturförderpunkt - advice on funding programmes for all cultural areas

Touring Artists - individual counselling on international projects and work stays abroad

VUT - association of Independent Music Companies, advice for labels and publishers

Berlin School of Popular Arts - in Berlin-Schöneberg offers Bachelor's and Master's programmes in German and English, providing a competent and promising response to the diverse requirements of the cultural and creative industries.

Berlin School of Sound - Sound Art Education and Community Center for Music

BIMM Berlin - English private university for Bachelor programmes in the fields of music, performing arts, filmmaking and video games

Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin - focuses on the core disciplines of Western art music and includes singing, piano, string instruments, woodwind and brass instruments, conducting, music theatre directing, musicology and composition

Popschule Berlin - Training institute for musicians in the field of pop music and pop business

Universität der Künste Berlin Faculty of Music - artistic training in orchestral and chamber music, early music and contemporary music via the artistic-pedagogical area, as well as church music, conducting, composition and the sound engineer training programme

Förderband Kulturinitiative - works together with Berlin job centres and cultural and socio-cultural venues to provide the long-term unemployed with meaningful employment in cultural work and to support them through coaching and training

Förderdatenbank des Bundes - Overview of all funding programmes available in Germany (EU, national, regional) for all sectors, including a practical search engine

Förderguide des MUSICBOARD BERLIN - Overview of funding opportunities in Berlin

Initiative Musik - Federal government funding organisation for the music industry in Germany

Kulturförderpunkt Berlin - contact point for Berlin cultural professionals, artists, project initiators, associations and players in the independent scene who are looking for information on the subject of cultural funding and financing

Musicboard Berlin - Funding and scholarship programmes

Senatsverwaltung fürKultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt - Cultural Funding Programmes of the State of Berlin

Artconnect Berlin - Berlin's largest social media network for creatives and creative businesses

Berlinmusiker.de - Classifieds for musicians - find other musicians, rehearsal rooms, equipment, lessons etc.

Creative City Berlin - Berlin's portal for cultural professionals and the creative industries

Kreatives Brandenburg - portal for cultural professionals and the creative industries

MIZ (Deutsches Musik Informationszentrum) - is the central point of contact for all questions relating to musical life in Germany. It documents structures, developments, trends

SHAPE+ - is a European platform for innovative music and art. It is artist-oriented, and, every year, it creates a selection of exceptional emerging talent via open call and curatorial voting. It is artist-oriented, and, every year, it creates a selection of exceptional emerging talent via open call and curatorial voting.