The HYPE & FRIENDS Gala is the festive finale of the festival in the Richard-Jakoby-Saal. In addition to fantastic music, the festival's own HYPE Awards are presented in five different categories:

1. Young Professional Support Award

The award winner is a person or institution that is of outstanding importance for "soon to be" young professionals. 

2. Young Professsional Media Communication Award

The award winner is a person or institution whose media or media communication is of outstanding importance to young professionals.

3. Networking for the Future of Music Award

The award winner is a person or institution that helps young professionals to network in an outstanding way. 

4. Agency Music Festival Support Award

The winner is a person or institution that supports or even organizes sustainable agency music festivals.

5. Award for sustained personal commitment to young professional support

The award winner is a person or institution that has long been personally committed to the further development of young professionals and/or supports them in general. 

The winners will be announced during the event. The seven-member jury for the HYPE & FRIENDS Awards is made up of Prof. Barbara Hornberger, Olaf Kretschmer, Christine Preitauer, Mareike Sperzel, Sina Mareike Schulte, Prof. Raphael Thöne and Prof. Carsten Winter and selects the winners from suggestions made by the HYPE & FRIENDS team.

Anmeldungen zur Gala sind derzeit noch nicht möglich! 
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