Brussels - European Festivals Association

EFA is a “We” story, linking people and organisations active in the arts management field. The EFA community including at its core its members as well as cities and regions holding the EFFE Seal, The Festival Academy Alumni, EFFE Labels and more take the joint responsibility to offer arts to audiences. It is a story that is reaching beyond Europe as it strives to consolidate interaction between continents, countries and cultures so that there can be mutual inspiration, influence and confrontation.   

EFA guides the discourse on the value of arts festivals. A sector that is so unique and that shares a myriad of concerns on intellectual, artistic, material and organisational level deserves a strong umbrella organisation that supports local initiatives and gives arts festivals a unified voice. 

The European Festivals Association is a trusted alliance of festival makers including: 

• 110 EFA members; strong and long standing festivals and national associations of festivals coming from different countries in Europe and beyond,
• An ever growing group of 3.500 festivals in 45 countries registered on the FestivalFinder.eu website, among which 400 festivals received the EFFE Label 2024-2025, 
• 1400 alumni of The Festival Academy, EFA’s global peer to peer learning and capacity sharing programmes for young festival managers,
• 33 cities and regions have joined the EFFE Seal for Festival Cities and Regions and more than 80 have taken part in EFA’s conversations.