Green Europe Experience

Central to the three-year cooperation project “Green Europe Experience” (GEX) is the design and management of a sustainable European music festival. The project is intended as a living laboratory to develop, test and assess sustainable models to produce and evaluate music festivals. The cooperative work of diverse festivals has enabled the testing of such strategies under various local conditions and has allowed for the identification of best practices. The results of such exchanges could in turn be shared with other cultural organisations. Thereby, the project also supports the exchange of experiences and further training of the participating cultural and creative practitioners, providing them with techniques to initiate long-term changes. The aim is to create a catalogue of analogue and digital ideas and practices that can be used to implement circular economy models for music festivals and transfer them to other cultural sectors.