The aim of the Artistic Exchange Platform (AEP) is to support EJN members and other promoters in Europe to exchange ideas and information about their bookings and to create new projects and commissions to be programmed in their venues and festivals across Europe to support the mobility of exceptional artists and their presentation to new audiences. AEP's aim is to create different medium-small size platforms inside the EJN membership for creative collaborations where presenters - with strong affinities in terms of music preferences, organisation size, geographical areas and same period of activities (festivals and/or series of concerts) - share artistic projects, build together new ones, share suggestions and experiences and discuss. The AEP is a “safe” environment where artistic directors from festivals, venues and clubs speak freely and confidentially about bookings and common projects, both ongoing and future ones.

This is done at an annual meeting usually of two days organised by EJN in collaboration with an EJN member. A first AEP meeting took place in March 2018 at Stadtgarten in Cologne, Germany, with 35 artistic directors and included as well a keynote speech on the “art of curating” between visual arts and music and a showcase festival of Cologne-based artists in the evenings. The second AEP meeting was held in Ghent, Belgium, at Handelsbeurs in April 2019 in collaboration with the Belgian Jazz Meeting (BJM) and involved 50 programmers of festivals and venues from Europe and a keynote speech by Philippe Van Cauteren, Director of SMAK- Contemporary Art Museum in Ghent.
 

The following AEP meetings took place in:

• Cully, Switzerland, in April 2022, co-organised with Cully Jazz Festival
• Strasbourg, France, in April 2023, co-organised with Jazzdor / Jazzlab #5
• Ljubljana, Slovenia, in February 2024, co-organised with Cankarjev dom
• Athens, Greece, in May 2025, co-organised with Athens Jazz Festival