Initiatives
- FestivalFinder.euFestivalfinder.eu brings the arts at the attention of audiences with a searchable database that also serves for all sorts of interactions and initiatives recognizing the work of Europe’s festivals
- The Festival AcademyThe Festival Academy offers various training formats on festival management to young, dynamic and passionate festival makers worldwide.
- European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA)The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA is an initiative of EFA that offers emerging artists a platform to develop their career on an international level through festivals.
- Knowledge CentreEFA collects interesting information related to festivals: books, case studies, European festivals research projects, papers, essays, reports...
- Covid-19 won't stop usMany initiatives have been launched to support the artistic and cultural sector during and after the coronavirus crisis. We have highlighted the most useful ones for the festivals community.
- Festival Cities InitiativeArts and the artists are the matrix of each festival. As is the city and its community. There is no community without the arts. For whatever non-explainable reason...
- KlassikalKlassikal is a common digital space to foster collaboration between professionals in classical music.
- Perform EuropePerform Europe supports experiments with more sustainable ways in cross-border physical and digital distribution of the performing arts with a view to designing future support schemes for the sector.
- EFFE Seal for Festival Cities and RegionsThe EFFE Seal is a concrete committing engagement signed by cities for close collaboration with their festivals. Together, they will take care of their relevant current challenges.
- Revealing the Alliance – Step 1 2 3Revealing the Alliance – Step 1 2 3 is the new Creative Europe Network programme of the European Festivals Association (EFA) that runs from 2022 till 2024.
- Joining hands and hearts, Festivals for UkraineJoining hands and hearts: Festivals for Ukraine is a peer-to-peer call for festival duos addressed to EFA members.
- 70-Years-On Agenda70 years after its birth, EFA is guided by a Thinking Group, who has shaped the European Festivals 70-Years-On Agenda for the next few years and to put this menu into action.
- Take 5*Take5* is a filmed series of encounters between 5 artists and 2 guests who meet for the first time in a specific city to speak about Europe, festivals, the arts and their role in society.
- Up to GreenEFA acknowledges that change requires collaborative action across all industries. Thus, we aim to enrich the discussion about how the cultural sector can make efforts to be and act more sustainably.