In 2022, the Instituto Cervantes will begin a line of collaboration with The Spanish Wave, an internationalisation project supported by various Spanish administrations and private companies with the aim of exporting emerging Spanish music, coordinated by the company Live Nation España. Throughout the year, the Institute, as part of this platform, plans to participate in several of the most important professional music fairs in the world, promoting the music groups that participate and the activities to be developed in those countries where the Institute has a presence. Also participating in this initiative are other Spanish entities such as Catalan Arts!, Instituto Estudis Balearics, Monkey Week, Sonorama Ribera, Mad Cool Festival, Turismo Valencia, Radio 3 and the following sector associations: AIE, APM, Fundación SGAE, among others.

The aim of this programme in which the Institute participates is for The Spanish Wave to become the public-private platform for the internationalisation of Spanish music in different forums and professional fairs, promoting meetings and encounters between the different agents in the sector: musicians, booking offices, export offices, festival programmers, etc., with the aim of generating business and facilitating the booking of Spanish artists abroad.