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YOUROPE – THE EUROPEAN FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION .gif) Yourope, the European Festival Association was founded in November 1998 and is the present more active than ever.The association currently has 64 members, which contains the most well established festivals in Europe. New members like Rock en Seine, France, Rock-a-Field Luxembourg or Associated Members like the Eurosonic Festival recently joined the association. All Yourope members are dedicated to improve the European festival scene in terms of working conditions, health and safety issues and environmental awareness. Also in promoting the cross-border exchange of live music talent. The overall aim of the association is to collaborate and share experience with all european areas which could benefit from a joint approach. Yourope was founding partner of the European Talent Exchange Programm (www.etep.nl) and the European Live Music Forum (www.elmf.eu). From 2006-2010, Yourope, with its Yourope Event Safety Group, organised seven health & safety seminars for festival security staff from all over Europe. A next seminar will take place during the Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg in September 2010.  In 2006/7, the association launched environmental guidelines for music festivals. The original printed booklet «Green'n'Clean» has been supplemented by a new online tool, providing festival organisers with customised environmental advice plus a «Green'n'Clean Award» for festivals who achieve a defined number of criterias in terms of environmental measures. So far, over 25 Yourope members have achieved the necessary points and received the «Green'n'Clean Award». In 2009, in cooperation with Bucks New University, Yourope organised two seminars for "sustainable management for events". The next seminar which is scheduled for November 2010 is in preparation. In October 2008, Yourope in cooperation with Virtual Festivals launched the first pan-European Festival portal eu.virtualfestivals.com which will seek to bring together more than 3000 music festivals, 20,000 performing artists and 50 million festival-goers across 45 countries. In January 2010, Yourope in cooperation with Virtual Festivals Europe promoted the 1st edition of the European Festival Awards. The 2nd edition will take place on January 12, 2011 during the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen. |
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