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Join free WIRE to GO webinar 2
YOUROPE’s working groups WIRE and GO continue the WIRE to GO webinar series. The goal: share best practices, new or successful established projects, inspiration, and provide space to discuss and exchange with others working on event sustainability – be it social or environmental sustainability. The two groups will host the webinars approximately every two months.
The next webinar is on May 21, 4.15-5.15 p.m. CET.
Topics:
- “Ethical pinkwashing – an oxymoron? Social sustainability through strategic partnerships between movements and markets,” presented by Jannick Friis Christensen, Head of Research and Chief Consultant in InLead Agency
- “Is it really green? Making green claims,” presented by Dr. Teresa Moore, Director of A Greener Future (AGF)
The webinar is open to anyone interested!
About the speakers
Jannick Friis Christensen is Head of Research and Chief Consultant in InLead Agency – a consulting firm specialised in developing and implementing research-based concepts and services in leadership development, cultural change, and strategic transformations with inclusion as a key driver. With a PhD in diversity management and postdoctoral work on partnerships for social sustainability, Jannick combines academic expertise with solid practical experience. He has held leadership roles in a global pharmaceutical company with responsibility for setting the strategic direction for global diversity and inclusion, executive, and effectively integrate initiatives with employee engagement and business goals.
Dr. Teresa Moore is Director of AGF and Co-founder of Green Events Innovation conference. Known internationally for her work in the field of sustainable events management she leads on research education and training for AGF and developed the award-winning practitioner based online training for new assessors. She is recognized by the industry as a leading expert on the problem of festival tent waste and behavior change and has worked with Greenpeace at Download festival to introduce green camping as well as conducting research at the Isle of Wight Festival for several years. She led research for Bristol’s Live Music Census Report for UK Music presenting the findings to the UK Government’s Parliamentary Committee for Music. She speaks regularly at conferences around the world. Teresa is an author and has written articles and contributed to books for both industry and academia on sustainable event management and event management education. She was a member of the UK ISO20212 Mirror committee and editor of the Purple Guide for event managers.
What is WIRE Group?
WIRE Group is YOUROPE’s newest working group on topics like wellbeing, inclusion, responsibility, equity, mental health, accessibility, and diversity. 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 the WIRE to GO webinar series. Both the seminars and webinars 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.”
Newsletter for WIRE Group & GO Group
We have created specific newsletters for social sustainability (WIRE Group) and environmental sustainability (GO Group), respectively. Don’t want to receive the bulk of YOUROPE news? Then sign up only for the topics relevant to you!