All applicants for journalistic accreditation for the Grape festival 2023 shall apply for it by
filling in and sending the accreditation form, no later than
July 31, 2024 (inclusive). We will inform applicants about the granting/non-granting of accreditation to the provided contact e-mail by July 31, 2024. Before filling in and sending the accreditation form, please carefully read the accreditation conditions below. Thank you and we look forward to working with you!
General accreditation conditionsWe grant accreditations for the festival to media that regularly and actively inform about the festival. The granting of accreditation is not claimable and is fully within the competence of the organizer.
The most common reasons for not granting accreditation are the following:
- failure to meet specific accreditation conditions (see below)
- late submission of the accreditation form (after 31 July 2024)
- low viewership of the medium and/or low affinity of the medium to the target groups of the festival
- capacity reasons
When assessing applications for accreditation, we also take into account past experiences with the media and its representatives. We recommend accredited media to send all published outputs from the festival (web links, broadcast recordings, prints) to the organizer (at ela@grapefestival.sk), ideally within 24 hours of publication. Failure to fulfill the condition may lead to not being granted accreditation in the following year of the festival. Failure to publish any output from the festival or failure to appear for a prearranged interview with artists/organizers during the festival is an automatic reason for not granting accreditation the following year.
Specific accreditation conditionsThe Internet media will publish at least three articles on the current year of the festival for the positive processing of the accreditation application. In the event that the media publishes all articles/promo material at once during the week and not continuously over a longer period, we will consider this condition not fulfilled. Media must also share published articles on social networks. Accreditation will also be assessed based on website traffic and social media activity.
The radio and television media will support the festival programmatically, by broadcasting informational messages about the festival and/or by broadcasting an interview with the festival organizers, for the positive processing of the accreditation request. When assessing accreditation, we also take into account outputs from the previous year (reports, interviews, etc.). We do not grant accreditations to small internet/regional radio stations and TV stations.