Application: Green Operations Award

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Green Operations Award

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Award description

To apply, please fill out this form and upload a presentation that outlines your project, innovation or good practice, with a maximum of 10 slides, in .pdf format only. (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). DEADLINE: November 9, 2025The Green Operations Award is the annual award presented by YOUROPE and the GO Group. Its target group are festivals that have made a significant contribution to or achievement towards developing more sustainable events. This can mean practices and systems introduced at their own event, the development of good practices that they have shared with other events, a specific innovation or continuous improvements over a number of years.Please also give us some info on 3rd party validation (certificates, awards, assessments) regarding your green operations this year.Festivals can apply for this category alone or together with a partner organization.Please note that the EUROPEAN FESTIVAL AWARDS are exclusively dedicated to popular music festivals that take place in Europe. Events outside this category are not eligible to participate and will be withdrawn from the competition by the jury.The award is given out by a jury panel made up of experts that are not directly linked to any specific festival.The Festival Awards team is grateful for your submission, and we wish you the best of luck.The winners 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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