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The event, which brought together five festival networks and thus as many as 30 European festivals, was exceptionally well received by participants as an important step toward a more connected, strategically focused, and high-impact European festival community.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The meeting raised key questions about how festival networks supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA program are jointly <strong>re(de)fining their understanding of festival audiences<\/strong> in an era marked by rapid social and technological shifts, fragmented attention spans and increasingly complex patterns of cultural engagement. Discussions touched on changing audience habits, new strategies for audience engagement, the curation of festival programs, and the development of participatory models that involve audiences as active co-creators. 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