We are happy to once again present our interactive, open and communicative format known as the „GO Group workshop“ with international guests from all over Europe. REGISTER here We are looking forward to meet you in the czech capital in spring, because we want to talk about today and tomorrow. Let‘s discuss how we run […]

It is past midnight and the awards party is still rolling in Groningen. We have a winner and it is a superb one. Our dear friend and jury member Claire O’Neill (A Greener Festival) presented the GREEN OPERATIONS AWARD at this year’s European Festival Awards celebration during the opening night of ESNS 2019. These are […]

The beginning of the year always is high time for GO Group as it is for the whole european live music branch. It’s time for ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) in Groningen. And ss always we have a packed agenda full of green issues and sustainability related events, panels and discussions at Europe’s most important music business […]

On January 16 GO Group will happily reveal 2018’s winner of the Green Operations Award. As the sustainability related category of the European Festival Awards the GO Award forms something like the “green Oscar” of the European Festival scene. The ceremony will be held at the Oosterport on the opening night of next year’s EurosonicNoorderslag […]

The Green Operations Award is an annual award category of the European Festival Awards. It is presented by Yourope and GO Group. Its target group are festivals that have made a significant contribution to or achievement towards developing more sustainable events. Examples for respective achievements are practises and systems introduced at their own event, the […]

To mark the occasion of Ludwig van Beethovens 250th birthday the BEETHOVEN PASTORAL PROJECT invites artists from all over the world… to form a network through their engagement with Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony and to take a stand against environmental degradation and to stand up for the UN’s sustainable development goals and the Paris Agreement with […]

On April 16 & 17 we gathered for a fantastic event in Berlin to meet, discuss and exchange. We were happy to organize these two dayswith our friends Yourope – The European Festival Association and Green Music Initiative with two main topics: monday we dealt with “Values, credibility & attatude”, tuesday it was “work, life […]

Responsibility – this is the GO Group leitmotif. After implementing green issues as a core value in the festival and events branch in the past years GO Group now adds a strong focus on social topics and the responsibility for ourselves to its agenda. Like no other institution our pan-european think-tank is bringing together hundreds […]

For the 6th time we had the chance to present the Green Operations Award as the award for Green Excellence at the European Festival Awards’ ceremony and this year winner is: POHODA Festival! GO Group are very grateful and honoured to once again be a part of the European Festival Awards by hosting this category. […]

For a couple of years now “responsibility” is a major issue for GO Group. A topic we discussed on an international level at various conferences, workshops and fieldtrips. We are honoured and happy to support and co-initiate the ground-breaking initiative that is TAKE A STAND  . Starting out from the festival scene it aims to […]