The short lists for the European Festival Awards have been announced today (mon nov 12th). While categories from best small to best major festival, anthem of the year or best line-up have been selected by public choice the Green Operations Award’s nominees and winner are chosen by an independent jury of experts. And here we […]

GO Group will host a workshop on festival sustainability on fri nov 30st @ Medimex, Bari, Italy Greener, cleaner, smarter – Festivals and events go sustainable The two hour workshop will show how (major) European festivals managed to run their operations greener and smarter and that it can be done by anybody. How do we […]

The growing interested in sustainable or green issues has long become an inevitable element of the music, festival and entertainment scenes as well. This is most noticeable by the rapidly increasing number of different awards and certification schemes. So, why adding ‘another green award’ with the EFA – Green Operations Award? Existing schemes such as […]

In less than three weeks the 3rd GreenEvents Europe Conference will take place on nov 5th and 6th at the Wissenschaftszentrum in Bonn. A maximum of networking possibilities are arranged including: • GreenEvents Warm up – Sunday evening get together (nov 4) • GreenEvents Poster session with coffee (nov 5) • GreenEvents Excursion (nov 5) […]

The GO Group steering committee is happy to announce their appreciation for the trust of the EFA organizers and Yourope the European Festival Association. The GO Group is responsible for the selection of the Green Operations Award jury, long and short list selection and the presentation of the award winner. GO Group co-founder and Yourope […]

The second GO Group workshop in Budapest last week was a nice success. Many thanks to all the participants and speakers who shared their experience and enthusiasm in finding good solutions for more sustainable festivals! And thanks to Sziget for being a wonderful host. For detailed information check out the documentation of the event:    

Budapest | 23-24 April 2012 GO Group went east with its second international workshop. After the successful debut in Amsterdam in May 2011 with 35 international participants, Green Operations Europe headed to Budapest for a second edition on event sustainability with great presentations, loads of information and best practise exchange. In four intense sessions on […]

GO Group sessions at Europe’s most important conference for live music industry Eurosonic/Noorderslag (Groningen | 12-14 January 2012) was looked up by more than 3100 experts from 41 countries. GO Group hosted a panel a day on green issues to give the topic the signification it deserves in the conference’s programme. Teresa Moore (Head of […]

GO Group initiatives for 2012 After a successful 2011 with the first 2-day workshop in Amsterdam and major contributions to the 2nd GreenEvents Europe Conference the GO Group (Green Operations Europe), co-initiated by Yourope, the European festival association is moving forward in 2012 with more projects related to sustainability in the festival and event business. […]