On January 15 in Groningen in Holland, Paléo Festival was rewarded with the "Health and Safety Innovation Award" during the European Festival Awards ceremony presented by the Eurosonic Festival and YOUROPE. This award for innovation in crowd management and safety rewards Paléo Festival Nyon for putting together a project for surveillance based on a map projection of events that are likely to happen during the event. This computer programm, developped voluntarily by the team managing the Security Department of the Festival, offers a representation of the situation on site in real time, thus drastically improving reactivity in decision making in case of emergencies. The Paléo Festival is honoured to receive this distinction that strenghthens its policies in terms of quality in crowd management and safety and recognizes the excellence of mesures that are taken each year to ensure smooth proceedings and create a friendly atmosphere.
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