The world’s first international professional body to support the professional development and recognition of everyone working across the global events industry.
The Centre for Events & Festivals (CEF) is an international Not-for-Profit providing resources to all event and festival sectors – from sports, business and private events to public, arts, and cultural festivals. We do this by harnessing the collective intelligence of leading industry experts and professors, practitioners, and bringing together our vibrant community to meet, debate and collaborate on intellectual and business challenge to help the world deliver GREAT events and festivals.
CEF is supported by two boards:
CEF’s EventsPRO™ program is our official Continuous Professional Development (CPD) portfolio of training courses – providing an affordable, world class professional education.
CEFs Fellowships provide a simple yet robust way to recognise your individual professional achievement, aligned to our ‘Professional Excellence Framework’ (EF-PEF) and ‘Professional Standards’. Successful applicants are awarded the use of “post-nominal letters” across all five Fellowship “Levels” outlined below (letters after your name to indicate a professional honour by a recognised institution).
And from our main page, you can access a range of research and insights from CEF Insights (our Harvard Business Review style articles) to regular debates on hot topics.
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