Moving Classics European Network for New Music (MClass) embraces the strong connection and long history shared between music and storytelling in the construction of identity beyond national borders. By enabling new ways of producing and presenting classical music inspired by literature and landscape the project will explore how stories and sounds have acted as the precursors to our rapidly shifting modern experiences of space and place - always traveling freely across political boundaries. Aiming to reinvigorate those traditional forms that shaped a European identity for a digital age the project will enable emergent composers selected from across Europe via the international network of Music Information Centres (present in 20 EU states) to work with professional-standard ensembles in Iceland, Norway and the UK through a series of production-based residencies. The project will develop 6 new contemporary classical works and performance formats inspired by regional musical, lliterary, poetic and artistic traditions, interpreted through the eyes of an outsider working in each host region. It will deliver a range of festivals, workshops, master-classes and debates alongside professional development meetings and an online resource for organisations involved. This will focus on the Network for New Music which enables production staff working with those composers and ensembles to develop knowledge networks to increase mobility, share audiences, strategise marketing, and develop opportunities across international borders in a sustainable fashion.Created with the intention of engaging modern audiences that may not have experienced contemporary classical music (believing it to be elitist, exclusive and demanding) the project will seek to reshape the perception of taught musicianship by showing its role in a shared European identity, embracing the emergent experience economy and moving the performance space from the concert hall to found spaces and the public realm.