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– The European Festival Association
Founded in November 1998 – Today representing over 70 members from 26 countries.
Yourope members are dedicated to improving the European festival scene in terms of:
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working conditions
health and safety issues
environmental awareness
exchange of knowledge and information
promoting the cross-border exchange of live music talent
The overall aim of the association is to collaborate, share experiences and to pinpoint areas
that would benefitfrom a joint approach. Having gained respect within the industry and at
government level, Yourope also has the power to lobby for all legal and industry issues relating
to the European festival industry on behalf of its members and together with other associations
in the live music business.
Yourope also focuses on other key issues for festivals – such exchange of information regarding
marketing and sponsoring, contracts, production riders or radio/TV/internet rights and more.
The members will meet between September 22-24, 2011 at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg for
a 2nd members meeting with a full day of workshops to exchange information.
– European Talent Exchange Program
Yourope is also a founding partner of the European Talent Exchange Program and has been
active during the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival for many years. ETEP stimulates the circulation
of European artists within Europe by performing at selected festivals troughout Europe.
The result is impressing:
Every year more than 200 confirmed shows by over 70 unique European artists from at least
20 countries at the 60 ETEP festivals! www.etep.nl
Due to financial support from the European Commission for the next five years Eurosonic
Noorderslag, Yourope and all other participating partners will be able to continue the already
successful ETEP program and develop it. In the next years we will be able to add more festivals and create more results for the selected ETEP acts and festivals and work on better
opportunities and border breaking carriers for European Artists in Europe.
– Yourope Event Safety Group
Since 2006, Yourope has organised ten health & safety seminars for festival security staff from
all over Europe. Headed by a steering comiteee around Chris Kemp from Bucks New University
an Hendrik Bondo Nielsen from the Roskilde Festival, the seminars and workshops have had a
big impact on Yourope in recent years.
The YES group in cooperation with the Buckinghamshire New University (Bucks) are also pleased to
announce the launch of the Professional Certificate in Event Safety and Security Management.
12th seminar in May 2011 at Bucks New University, Missenden Abbey (near London, UK)
Public Panel in October 2011 at MaMa Conference, Paris (France)
Yourope members don’t pay admissions or get special discounts!
– Green’n’Clean
Yourope’s environmental guidelines for music festivals (since 2006).
The online tool is providing festival organisers with customised environmental advice
plus a “Green‘n‘Clean Award” for festivals who achieve a defined number of criteria. So far,
over 30 Yourope members have achieved the “Green’n’Clean Award”.
Since 2009, Yourope co-promoted three seminars for “Sustainable Management” at Bucks New
University in cooperation with agreenerfestival.com, Julie’s Bicycle and Theresa Moore from Bucks
New University and in November 2010 at the Green Events Conference in Bonn.
Yourope is a founding member of the Green Operations (GO) Group. The Green Operations (GO)
Group is an independent, pan European and cross industry think-tank to inspire people in the
music festival and event industry to run their operations greener and smarter. Initiated in November
2010 by Bucks University, GreenEvents Conference, Green Music Initiative (GMI) and Yourope
at the 1st International GreenEvents Conference in Bonn. The first GO Group workshop took place in
Amsterdam from the 23rd – 24th May 2011. The next meeting will be during the 2nd International
GreenEvents Conference in Bonn on November 2–3, 2011.
Yourope members get a special discount!
– Virtual Festivals Europe
In 2008 Yourope launched the first pan-European Festival portal in co-operation with
Virtual Festivals, connecting the entire European festival market on one website!
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3000 music festivals
20,000 performing artists
50 million festival goers
45 countries
Yourope members get special discount rates if they book advertisements on this
European festival platform. www.eu.virtualfestivals.com
– Festival Awards Europe
Yourope and Virtual Festivals Europe worked in co-operation with Eurosonic Noorderslag to launch
the European Festival Awards in October 2009.
Over 350‘000 votes were cast in the voting period at the end of 2010. The 3nd edition will take
place on January 11, 2012 in Groningen (NL).
www.eu.festivalawards.com
The categories:
»Best Major European Festival
»Best Medium-Sized European Festival
»Best Small European Festival
»Best New European Festival
»Best Indoor Festival
»Best European Festival Line-Up
»Artist’s Favourite European Festival
»Best Newcomer
»Best Headliner
»Festival Anthem Of The Year
»Promoter Of The Year
»Yourope Green ‘n’ Clean Festival Of The Year
»Yourope Lifetime Achievement Award
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AUSTRIA
»FREQUENCY FESTIVAL
»NOVA ROCK
BELGIUM
»PUKKELPOP
»ROCK WERCHTER
CROATIA
»T-Mobile INmusic Festival
CZECH REPUBLIC
»ROCK FOR PEOPLE
DENMARK
»ROSKILDE FESTIVAL
»SKANDERBORG FESTIVAL
FINLAND
»ILOSAARIROCK
»PROVINSSIROCK
»RUISROCK
FRANCE
»FIESTA DES SUDS
»LE PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES
»LES MÉDITERRANÉENNES
»L ES RENCONTRES TRANS MUSICALES DE RENNES
»ROCK EN SEINE
GERMANY
»C/O POP FESTIVAL & CONVENTION
»DAS FEST
»MELT! FESTIVAL
»PASSAUER PFINGST-OPEN-AIR
»RHEINKULTUR
»ROCCO DEL SCHLACKO
»STADTPARK OPEN R
»TAUBERTAL-FESTIVAL
»Wacken Open Air
GREECE
»ROCK WAVE FESTIVAL
IRELAND
»OXEGEN
ITALY
»10 Giorni Suonati
»I-DAY FESTIVAL
»ITALIA WAVE LOVE FESTIVAL
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»POSITIVUS FESTIVAL
LUXEMBOURG
»ROCK-A-FIELD
MACEDONIA
»TAKSIRAT FESTIVAL
NORWAY
»DØGNVILLFESTIVALEN
ȯYA FESTIVAL
»SLOTTSFJELL FESTIVAL
POLAND
»BURN SELECTOR FESTIVAL
»LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL
»OPEN‘ER FESTIVAL
»WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL
ROMANIA
»B‘ESTFEST
RUSSIA
»Kubana
SERBIA
»EXIT FESTIVAL
SLOVAKIA
»POHODA FESTIVAL
»WILSONIC FESTIVAL
SPAIN
»Akzena rock festival
»Barcelona AcciÓ Musical BAM
»Bilbao bbk live
»DÍA DE LA MÚSICA HEINEKEN
»F IB Benicàssim
»SOS 4.8 FESTIVAL
SWEDEN
»ARVIKAFESTIVALEN
»GOTHENBURG CULTURE FESTIVAL
»HULTSFRED
»MALMÖFESTIVALEN
»WAY OUT WEST
SWITZERLAND
»FESTIVAL ROCK OZ‘ARÈNES
»F ESTIVAL WEEK-END AU BORD
DE L‘EAU
»GREENFIELD FESTIVAL
»GURTENFESTIVAL BERNE
»HEITERE OPENAIR
»MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL
»OPENAIR ST.GALLEN
»PALÉO FESTIVAL NYON
»WINTERTHURER MUSIKFESTWOCHEN
THE NETHERLANDS
»LOWLANDS
»METROPOLIS FESTIVAL
»MYSTERYLAND
»PARKPOP
»PINKPOP
TURKEY
»ROCK‘N COKE
UNITED KINGDOM
»T in the Park
ASSOCIATED MEMBER
»ESPRIT arena, Germany
»Eurosonic Noorderslag,
THE Netherlands
»BuckS New University,
United Kingdom
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NOVA ROCK | Austria
Montreux jazzfestival | Switzerland
Oxegen festival | Ireland
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Exit festival | Serbia
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Rheinkultur | Germany
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PINKPOP | The Netherlands
Taubertal-festival | Germany
Barcelona acciÓ Musical bam | Spain
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Roskilde festival | Denmark
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Les Méditerranéennes de leucate | France
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WINTERTHURER MUSIKFESTWOCHEN | Switzerland
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DAS FEST | Germany
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T in the park | Scotland
I-Day Festival | Italy
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Coke Live Music Festival | Poland
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Gothenburg culture festival | Sweden
openair st. gallen | Switzerland
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gurtenfestival | Switzerland