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The Budapest Observatory has been involved in festival research both on the European as well as the national scene.

BO was member of the Consortium of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP), engineered by the late Dragan Klaic..

Following two seminars in Leicester and Le Mans, done in conjunction with De Montfort University and France Festivals respectively, EFRP joined forces with Circle, and the annual round table conference of this European network was dedicated to the festival policy of public authorities, entitled Festival Jungle - Policy Desert? Read the conference report. The meeting was hosted by Interarts, Barcelona, in October 2007. BO contributed, among others, by introducing the debate on a set of recommendations to the public authorities on festival policies, the closing session of the Barcelona conference.

The next meeting was held in Helsinki, in 2008, for which BO prepared a case study on Miskolc. For a 2009 symposium in Novi Sad, Serbia, BO contributed with a presentation on the typology of theatre festivals, with special regard to audience development.

Poznań in April 2010 received the ninth EFRP event. The theme was Artistic festivals with a social and intellectual agenda. Here is the report.  

On a different stage, BO took part in the preparation of the first European international comparative survey of festivals, initiated by France Festivals, supported by EFA, the organisation of European festivals. The findings of the survey were presented in Lille, also by BO memo

On behalf of the Hungarian Festival Association, BO participated in the preparation of the EFFE programme, and has been fulfilling the functions of the national hub of this EFA coordinated programme since 2015.

In 2020, on behalf of Summa Artium, BO joined the FestivalFinder.eu (a)Live Now project which has acted with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission. The Hungarian participation in the programme receives support from NKA, the National Cultural Fund.