The Granada Festival´s main objectives are:To promote interdisciplinary artistic & cultural exchange establishing contacts between professionals of different European nationalities around a common artistic project.To encourage international awarenes of music & dance, giving special emphasis to European traditions and settings.To promote teaching & research via the International Manuel de Falla Courses.A clear commitment to artistic creation through the commission of music & choreographic compositions as well as stage productions, to be premiered within the framework of the Festival.To strengthen our commitment towards an education in values through specific programmes aimed at children & teenagers.To encourage music & dance as a means of overcoming physical or mental disabilities.To use art as a means of helping to overcome social discrimination & exclusion.To increase standards by enriching the programme year by year and by including new ways & strategies to address society.