Exit Fest SerbiaLollapalooza Berlin GermanyLowlands The NetherlandsNova Rock Austria

Open’er Festival PolandØya Festival NorwayPaléo Festival SwitzerlandPinkpop The Netherlands

Primavera Sound SpainPukkelpop BelgiumRock en Seine FranceRock Werchter Belgium

Roskilde Festival DenmarkSziget Festival HungaryWacken Open Air GermanyWay Out West Sweden

YOUROPE HAS 100 MEMBERS FROM 26 COUNTRIES OF EUROPE! SOME OF THEM ARE LEADING EUROPEAN FESTIVALS LIKE:

Join Yourope and be amongst 100 of the most well established European festivals, companies and events.

• You will be featured on our website with a detailed profile• Three member meetings per year:

Eurosonic Noorderslag Groningen (NL) in January, ILMC London (UK) in March and Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg (GER) in September

• Special invitations and discounts to conferences, seminars and member festivals (for example Primavera Pro, IFF, MaMa)

The yearly membership fee for Yourope is Euro 1500.00. If you pay within the first three months, it is only Euro 1200.00. Yourope also operates an Associated Members’ scheme for companies working within the European festival scene, enabling them to contribute to the industry and collaborate with festival promoters. The Associated Membership fee is the same price as the regular Festival Membership (but without a voting right). Companies promoting more than one festival per year will get special membership rates if they join Yourope with more than one festival.

Contact: Christof Huber | +41 71 223 41 01yourope@yourope.orgwww.yourope.org (online application)

BECOME A MEMBER OF  YOUROPEYourope was founded in 1998, and has evolved into the most

important Association of European Festivals. Besides discussing trade topics and sharing best practices with its over 100 festivals and associated members, Yourope has founded dedicated groups dealing with health & safety (YES Group), green operations (GO Group) and marketing & communication (EMAC Group).Founded in November 1998, its members are dedicated to improving the European festival scene in terms of:

• working conditions• health and safety issues• sustainability and environmental awareness• exchange of knowledge and information• promoting the cross-border exchange of live music talent

in Europe

The overall aim of the association is to collaborate, share experiences and to pinpoint areas that would benefit from a joint approach. Having gained respect within the industry and at government level, Yourope has the power to lobby for all legal and industry issues relating to the European festival industry on behalf of its members, and in conjunction with other associations in the live music business. Yourope also focuses on other key issues for festivals, such as exchange of information regarding marketing and sponsorship, contracts, production riders, radio/TV/internet rights and more. The association laun-ched its own Yourope standard terms for artist contracts and a standard agreement for use.

WHAT IS YOUROPE?

The EMAC Group was designed to support and inspire profes-sionals of the music festival industry. It is a platform within Yourope, but not limited to its members. The main goals are sharing knowledge, best practices and promoting common goals in four main areas of interest:• Sponsorship• Marketing and product development• Communication• BroadcastingThe Group hosts meetings, workshops, seminars and also drafts guidelines and proposals with the aim to create a more efficient and professional marketing and communication environment in the festival sector.

Founded: 2003ETEP was introduced in 2003 to make the ‘exchange’ of European artists across Europe possible on a grater scale than ever before. YOUROPE is a founding partner of ETEP, which stimulates the circulation of European artists within Europe by performing at selected festials.Numbers 2003 – 2018:• 3991 shows• 1415 European artists from• 32 countries at• 122 ETEP festivalswww.etep.nl

In 2015, Yourope drafted a mission statement declaring the role of festivals in turbulent times such as the present one. Given the current political situation, this statement has become more important than ever, prompting Yourope to go a step further and launching the campaign TAKE A STAND in early 2017. Today it is the most important independent awareness campaign for the music and creative sector that aims to strengthen the awareness for the European values such as openness, cultural exchange, social cohesion, tolerance, humanism and peaceful dialogue. Within two years it gathered more than 105 supporting festivals and promoters from 24 countries as well as 16 associations and partners. www.take-a-stand.eu

EUROPEAN MARKETING &COMMUNICATION GROUP

EUROPEAN TALENTEXCHANGE PROGRAM

TAKE A STAND

Yourope‘s bi-anual European Festival Conference (EFC) was created as a gathering and summit of festival promoters in a new conference format related to all festival topics. The concept of a travelling event brought the EFC to Kals (A) in 2015 and Larvik (NOR) for the second edition in 2017, which was fully dedicated to the «future of festivals». The 3rd edition of the European Festival Conference will take place from 20 – 22 November 2019 in Vallromanes, Barcelona, Spain.www.europeanfestivalconference.com

EUROPEAN FESTIVAL CONFERENCE

Founded: 2006YOUROPE has organized 26 health & safety seminars for festival security staff from all over Europe. The seminars and workshops have had a big impact on YOUROPE and the festival sector in recent years. The YES Group also launched the Professional Certificate in Event Safety and Security Management. • 26 YES group Seminars• 1000 participants • Professional CertificateThe 27th YES Group seminar will take place at Eurosonic Noorderslag, Groningen (NL) on 16 & 17 January 2019.

YOUROPE EVENT SAFETY GROUP

Yourope co-founded GO Group (Green Operations Europe) in 2011. It is an independent, cross industry think-tank to inspire people in the music, festival and events industry to run their operations greener, smarter and more sustainable. GO Group stimulates exchange and leads the discussion about social and ecological responsibility. Within its seven years of existance GO Group delivered 5 international conferences with up to 180 participants, 10 international two-day workshops and festival field trips as well as 45 conference contributions (such as panels, presentations, keynotes) in 14 European countries. The 8th international GO Group workshop will take place on 1 & 2 April 2019 in Praguewww.go-group.org

GO GROUPGREEN OPERATIONS EUROPE

Yourope and Festival Awards Ltd. worked in co-operation with Eurosonic Noorderslag to launch the European Festival Awards in October 2009. The 10th edition of the Festival Awards Europe (with 15 categories) takes place in January 2019 in the context of Eurosonic Noorderslag at Groningen (NL). eu.festivalawards.com

EUROPEAN FESTIVAL AWARDS