Art festivals have a significant importance in the development of a local community, being a factor
of cultural and social cohesion, a platform for interaction between those who share the same cultural
values. The purpose of this research is to identify the managerial competencies needed by festival
organizers, being known that performance in the organization is given by the existence of cognitive
skills, emotional and social intelligence. The study conducted on several festivals organized in Cluj,
Romania involved carrying out an exploratory and descriptive research, through a pre-existing
questionnaire, on the competencies and roles that organizers must have from a professional
standpoint. The results showed an approximately identical perception of the two groups in assessing
the skills of emotional intelligence and empathy, managers and artists, a different one in terms of
cognitive skills and the dimensions ordered by the number of mentions highlighted the need to
professionalize the competencies
