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.

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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.

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.

Report: Comms content of Festival Playground 2024

Learn how to improve your festival’s ticket sales, about communication strategies, AI tools for festivals, freedom of arts, and the current situation in Ukraine in this report on sessions at Festival Playground 2024.

First European Festival Summit “a big success”

YOUROPE and KME draw a positive conclusion after the first European Festival Summit in Karlsruhe. Around 200 participants came to Tollhaus to discuss how they can make festivals fit for the future.

The Risk Management Circle in the Context of Events 5: Risk Monitoring and Review

The Risk Management Circle in the Context of Events 5: Risk Monitoring and Review The final phase of the risk management circle is risk monitoring and review. This phase involves continuously overseeing the identified risks...

Emergency Management 3: Learning from Disasters

Reviewing incidents that have happened to “others” is helpful in emergency planning, regardless of whether events are comparable or the incident is recent or not. Learn more here.

Emergency Management 2: Scenarios

Emergency Management 2: Scenarios As part of emergency planning, the following questions must be answered in regard to the specific management of the emergency: Emergencies must always be handled from the perspective of all parties...

Emergency Management 1: Emergency Plans

Learn what an emergency plan for your festival needs and how you can draw it up.

Emergency planning: Introduction

Emergency planning: Introduction Emergency planning is an important part of modern safety management for events, which includes the consideration of safe normal operating conditions as well as potential damage situations. Emergency planning describes the handling...

The Risk Management Circle in the Context of Events 2: Risk Identification

Learn how to identify potential risks at your live event. This includes physical, environmental, and human risks.

The Risk Management Circle in the Context of Events 1: Introduction

For event professionals and licensing authorities, understanding and implementing robust risk management strategies is crucial to mitigating risks and ensuring a smooth execution. Learn more in this article.

The Risk Management Circle in the Context of Events 3: Risk Assessment

Once potential risks have been identified in event planning, the next step is risk assessment. This involves evaluating the likelihood and impact of each identified risk and prioritizing them.

3F Safety Report

What’s the state of event safety and security at European festivals? Read a detailed evaluation of the sector in the new 3F Safety Report, developed by YES Group.