One-liner: a music cluster in formation, driven by ASVEM — announced 16 July 2026, with the founding sectoral encuentro due September 2026. Not yet an entity; watch this one.
Status: PLANNED. As of 2026-07-27 this is a proposal with institutional backing, not a constituted cluster. It has no legal form, no members and no programmes yet.
#status/verify— recheck after the September 2026 encuentro.
What a founder would get (intended)
- An open ecosystem connecting companies, creators, associations, federations, conservatories, music schools, universities, cultural entities and public administrations across the whole music value chain.
- Stated priority areas: technology, training, internationalisation and financing.
- If it constitutes and registers, it becomes eligible for the IVACE+i Cluster Program line — the Director General de Industria used the launch event to flag Ivace+i's first specific cluster-support call under the Estrategia de Reindustrialización 2024-2028. That is the mechanism by which this would become a funded, staffed body rather than an association of goodwill.
Who it's for
- The whole Valencian music sector. For a music-tech founder specifically, this is the most interesting medium-term development in the region — it is the first Valencian body proposing to put music companies, universities and technology in the same room deliberately.
How to engage
- ASVEM has issued an open invitation to companies, academic institutions and public administrations to join. Contact admin@asvem.es and ask to be included in the September encuentro.
- Getting in before constitution is cheap and gives founding-member positioning.
Key facts
- Presented 9 July 2026 at the UPV, at the jornada "El tejido vivo de la innovación y la cooperación valenciana" organised by SECMACV (the sustainability/circular-economy cluster); announced publicly 16 July 2026.
- Institutional attendance: Julio Delgado Espinós (DG de Industria, GVA), Débora Domingo Calabuig (Vice-rector for Sustainable Development, UPV), Patricia García Godoy (president, SECMACV), plus CDTI, ICO and Valencia Innovation Capital.
- Rationale figures (Anuario de la Música CV / Ivie): live music = €384M of Valencian GDP, 12,500+ FTE jobs, 2,200+ companies.
- Driven by Pedro Rodríguez (ASVEM), who frames the problem as fragmentation: "our Community has enormous musical potential, but we work in too fragmented a way."
Relations
- Run by: ASVEM
- See also: IVACE+i Cluster Program
- See also: GVA Clusters (registry)
- See also: Music (niche)
- See also: FEVIM