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Photo: YOUROPE’s second DEI seminar in Sofia, 2025 | Ivana Barova

WIRE Group

WIRE Group is YOUROPE’s working group on topics like wellbeing, inclusion, responsibility, equity, mental health, accessibility, and diversity. The acronym stands for wellbeing, inclusion, responsibility, and equity.

Its members work for major festivals and music-related organizations across Europe. Their goal is to collect and share knowledge and best practices to raise the standard of these topics in the whole festival sector. WIRE Group grew out of the project team that created and published YOUROPE’s acclaimed Diversity & Inclusion Toolset as part of the European project “3F – Future-Fit Festivals.”

The group organizes an annual seminar in fall, each time in a different European city, and is currently establishing a regular webinar format to keep the conversation going in between the seminars. Both the seminars and webinars and are open to anyone who is interested.

WIRE Group also plans to contribute its expertise to collaborative pan-European projects. The first is already in the making: developing a DEI roadmap for festivals that corresponds with the Diversity & Inclusion Toolset as part of YOUROPE’s current project “3F 2.0.”


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Katharina Weber (YOUROPE project manager)

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Find out how to improve accessibility, gender equality, psychological safety, mental health and much more at your festival and in your organization.

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Report: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Seminar, Paris 2024

Learn about making your event more inclusive and diverse by reading up on the key takeaways from YOUROPE’s first seminar on diversity, equity & inclusion at festivals.