NEWS

The Evaluation Program of the Festivals was initiated by five Hungarian professional association in the summer of 2008. 230 festivals were registered and 87 of them were evaluated by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Municipality Affairs in cooperation with the Hungarian Public Civisation Institute and the Lectorate of Fine Arts by the beginning of December 2009.

The aim of the program was to define the profession of festivals, and give the basis for the clear, transparent festival funding system with the help of classification of the Hungarian festivals.

Participation in the program is voluntary and continuous. Festivals can be refused or evaluated excellent, good or evaluated classification in the genres of folklore, gastronomy and special ones.

MEDIAWAVE Festival participates among the 16 artistic festivals which were classified excellent rank together with the "Ördögkatlan Festival" which takes place nearby the Villány Region, is cooperated by MEDIAWAVE. The Festival of Five Churches in Győr got good classification.