Application: Event Safety Award

Event Safety Award

Application

Award description

Before applying, please read the special application requirements below! DEADLINE: November 9, 2025The world is full of good solutions, ideas and procedures - and even within the crowd management community, some of them are quite unknown, although they could be useful for others, too. Thus, the Event Safety Award’s aim is to spread these good ideas by bringing them into the spotlight.The Event Safety Award will be given to a project or good practice implemented this year at a European festival in the field of event safety. This could be an innovation, a well-established procedure or the documentation of a development process that improved the occupational health and safety, security, service for the attendees and/or working conditions for the staff.The award is given out by a jury panel of experts assembled of YES Group Committee members, who will assess the value of the submitted application for the Event Safety sector, especially in the festival context.Please note that the EUROPEAN FESTIVAL AWARDS are exclusively dedicated to popular music festivals in Europe. Events outside this category are not eligible to participate and will be withdrawn from the competition by the jury.The application process for the Event Safety Award is as follows:<ol><li>Applicants fill out this form. This also means uploading a presentation of the proposal (in .pdf format only, with a maximum of 10 slides). If you wish to provide further info via download links, please note that we do not accept WeTransfer links, as they expire. Please use more permanent services such as Dropbox or Google Drive and make sure the jury has the right to view and download the folders in question.</li><li>After the registration period closes, the jury will select a shortlist of nominees from the pool of applications.</li><li>The jury may invite the nominees to give a short presentation and be interviewed.</li><li>The short-listed nominees are required to give a presentation at the next YES Group seminar at ESNS in Groningen (in person, online or prerecorded). The seminar takes place on the same day as the European Festival Awards ceremony (Jan 14, 2026).</li></ol>The winner will be announced during the European Festival Awards ceremony at De Oosterpoort in Groningen, The Netherlands, on January 14th, 2026. We hope to see you there.

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Please upload a presentation that outlines the project, innovation or good practice, with a maximum of 10 slides in .pdf format.

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