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- contributing to developing the skills of artists as well as partners - realising and continually updating informational offerings about taxes, customs duties, social insurance, copyright law, insurance and visa and residency requirements - making laws and legal provisions in germany more easily accessible - compiling and publishing support programmes for international projects in a database; offering interactive consulting for individual questions

Funding by the federal government commissioner for culture and the media

- online and freely accessible in english and german since april 2013 - used intensively by artists and event organisers in a wide variety of fields: 14,200 visits per month on average in 2014, and 19,300 in 2015 - 1,495 backlinks from 141 different domains link to http://www.touring-artists.info/home.html?&l=1, as of 16 december 2015, source: http://www.backlinktest.com - in its personal consulting hours, the cooperation partner smartde carried out more than 300 consultations between september 2014 and 31 december 2015; additionally, approx. 400 queries were answered thoroughly by telephone or email. - expansion to additional languages planned beginning in 2016, especially languages of major refugee groups, depending on available resources and partnerships - expansion to important areas such as music, literature, and others is desired in order to make a permanently viable resource base and permanently viable partnerships possible - the strategic added value of this knowledge portal rests on continuous updating through feedback from professional users and digital networking with sources of information from relevant ministries and institutions. because complex regulations are subject to frequent change, qualified management of this knowledge resource – for example, on a timescale of ten years – is crucial in order to make a lastingly effective contribution to reducing barriers to mobility.