Swedish Music Festivals has been granted support from the Nordic Culture Fund and Music Development and Heritage Sweden to arrange the second Nordic-Baltic Festival Meeting and a member’s conference on 12-13 October 2012 in Stockholm. The meeting is a follow-up to the 2011 Nordic-Baltic Festival Conference arranged by SMF in collaboration with the concert hall Harpa in Reykjavik, Iceland. The upcoming meeting will gather festival managers from 10 Nordic and Baltic countries as well as the members of Swedish Music Festivals. The conference take place in conjunction with one of the world’s oldest festivals, the Nordic Music Days, founded in 1884. A number of Nordic and Baltic festival colleagues, following the initiative of Swedish Music Festivals, joined forces in organising the first Nordic-Baltic Festival Meeting in Iceland, 5-7 October 2011. It was made possible thanks to the support of the Nordic Culture Fund and took place in connection to the annual Nordic Music Days, and the opening of the new concert Hall Harpa in Reykjavik. 45 representatives of festivals in Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden attended. Keynote speaker was Franz Patay, CEO of the Vienna Mozart Year 2006. All participants gave a short presentation on the situation of culture, the arts, and festivals in their respective countries, followed by a debate on how Nordic-Baltic cooperation could be structured. The conference resulted in the decision to work towards strengthening a possible international festival network, and an agreement to arrange another meeting to further investigate concrete ways of collaboration. The 2012 edition in Stockholm includes a presentation of FESTudy, a European festival study that involved some 450 festivals during 2011 and 2012, by Lluis Bonet from the University of Barcelona. The study will close in Barcelona in November and will be presented officially in the beginning of 2013. The presentation is open to the public and takes place in Östasiatiska museets hörsal 13/10 at 13:00.