ULYSSES Platform
The ULYSSES Platform project focuses on the following commitment: to help emerging artists in contemporary music make a successful transition between formal training and making a living.

© Rogier Boogaard
The ULYSSES Platform project focuses on the following commitment: to help emerging artists in contemporary music make a successful transition between formal training and making a living.

© Rogier Boogaard
The ULYSSES project was originally inspired by an illustrious generation of 18th Century artists who wandered across Europe, visiting at each “stop” along the way the greatest masters' workshops in order to improve and to complete their skills. Following the steps of the Homeric hero, their odyssey was an initiatory journey paving the way for future generations of young European artists.

The ULYSSES Platform project is possible thanks to the support of the European Union. It focuses on the following commitment: to help emerging artists in contemporary music make a successful transition between formal training and making a living. The project will empower emerging artists by offering them opportunities to:
This multi-pronged approach will allow young artists to enter their professional lives armed with a broader vision, experience, knowledge and connections, contributing to a richer, more agile and more resilient European music sector.
The ULYSSES Platform 2024-2028 aims to leverage the positive results and accomplishments of the first, second and third ULYSSES Network projects that were carried out, with the support of the Culture programme of the European Union, from May 2012 to April 2016, from May 2016 to October 2020, and from November 2020 to October 2024.
