MSc Festival Operations
Plan a festival week a site manager can run
Conferred under the Polish Law on Higher Education with European ECTS Diploma Supplement.
ApplyAcademic Overview
You treat a festival as a temporary city: gates, power, crews, artists, and the streets around the site. The cases sit in Warsaw's festival calendar. You do not inherit a venue contract or a city's licence. Seminars run online, with a campus studio week when the cohort is in Warsaw. The year ends with a week plan, not a slogan about culture. MSc Festival Operations is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Festival systems through Festival systems; Temporary power and crowd flow; Artists, tickets, and contracts; Crews and volunteers; Permits and neighbours; Festival week plan, and finish on Festival week plan. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students find where time or cost is lost and recommend one operational change. Reading is a process map, a capacity note, and a disruption case. The artefact a marker expects is a recommendation for one lane, site, or service with the cost and the risk. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Write a run-of-show with a stop-admissions time Cost a volunteer and crew rota Map crowd flow at a gate Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.
Curriculum & Core Modules
The curriculum comprises 36 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:
Festival systems
Temporary power and crowd flow
Artists, tickets, and contracts
Crews and volunteers
Permits and neighbours
Festival week plan
Teaching & Assessment Methodology
Online Pathway
Asynchronous learning via the university LMS, digital library access, faculty-led virtual seminars, and proctored online assessments.
Warsaw Campus Pathway
In-person lectures, tutorial seminars, and laboratory sessions at Prosta 20, Warsaw, with full campus facility access.
Career Trajectories
- Festival producer
- Site manager
- Ticketing lead
- Volunteer coordinator
- City events officer
European Campus & Academic Facilities
Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.
Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.
Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.
Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.
Degree Recognition, NAWA & EDINAC Accreditation
Degrees from IU International University of Applied Sciences are awarded under the statutory framework of the Republic of Poland and the European Bologna Process (ECTS). Qualification transparency and international academic mobility are supported within the framework of NAWA (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) and European ENIC-NARIC networks. Furthermore, the university holds Tier 1 Full International Accreditation from EDINAC (Ref: EIAC/QA/PL/2000-IU) with immutable cryptographic diploma verification on edinac.org.