The YOUROPE Hub

This YOUROPE Hub is a collection of knowledge, best-practice examples and tools for those interested in organizing popular music festivals. It will constantly be updated with content recommended by our working groups, the project team or the association’s management.

You can navigate this library with the help of the filter framework of focus topics and categories. “Best practice” includes case studies of projects and festivals that are exceptional in some way and can serve as a role model. “Publication” comprises guides, handbooks, reports, scientific papers etc. “Tools” shows online resources that are more interactive than PDFs. “Article” is for news and announcements by YOUROPE.

Do you have a question that can’t be answered by the Hub? Then check out the Pool of Experts from our network, who have years of experience with topics such as event sustainability, diversity and inclusion at festivals, event safety, communication, and general festival planning.

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Publication, Tools

Weather Toolbox out now

Learn how to make your outdoor event weather-ready with YOUROPE’s newest publication: the Weather Preparedness & Resilience Toolbox.

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European Green Festival Roadmap 2030

YOUROPE’s Green Festival Roadmap 2030 aims to give European festivals and events a reliable guide for sustainable actions, including lots of measures in seven areas.

Article

European Talent Exchange: 2026 Summer Results

Find out who are the most booked artists through the European Talent Exchange in 2026 so far.

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Learnings from the 12th GO Group workshop

Read upon the takeaways of the 2026 GO Group workshop in Warsaw. Topics include the green transformation, sponsorship, how to improve sales of plant-based food, textile production, carbon analysis, Štěrkovna Open Music, and more.

Tools

GDCF Monitoring Tool

GDCF Monitoring Tool The Green Deal Circular Festivals (GDCF) Monitoring Tool is a climate impact and circularity assessment tool for festivals. The Monitoring Tool supports both beginners looking for a first approach, and advanced festival...

Publication

Watch WIRE to GO webinar #1

Learn more about Colours of Ostrava’s accessibility program Colours without Barriers and Sziget Festival’s wellbeing program Szitizencare.

Publication

Polish translation of Green Festival Roadmap published

YOUROPE and Narodowym Centrum Kultury have created a Polish translation of the Green European Festival Roadmap 2030 – a tool to guide festivals in their sustainable transformation.

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Finnish roadmap to sustainable live music

Check out the “Live Music Climate Roadmap”, a roadmap for a more sustainable live music industry from Finland.

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Videos: Watch the European Festival Awards 2025

Find a recording of the EFAs 2025, an after movie, the list of winners, a link to the photo gallery here.

Publication

What you can learn from the 40th YES Group seminar

Weather preparedness, improving resilience, barrier design, drones, and show stops were some of the topics of the YES Group seminar at ESNS 2026.

Tools

Weather Tool Box – Heat & Heatwaves

Recent European heatwaves have caused large increases in heat-related illness and deaths (studies and briefs show thousands to tens of thousands of excess deaths in summers such as 2003, 2019 and more recent events). These...

Tools

Weather Tool Box – Best practice from Festivals

Extreme weather phenomena (“severe weather”) may lead to the cancellation/termination or interruption of the event.

Tools

Weather Tool Box – Do the Maths

Weather hazards and crowd dynamics are domains where assumptions fail quickly and consequences escalate fast. Intuitive judgments such as “people will move faster,” “the storm is still far away,” or “the exits should be sufficient”...