NEU/NOW Festival 2012: Call for Nominations
For the next edition of the NEU/NOW Festival, we invite member schools to nominate their best graduating talent in five categories: Visual Arts, Design, Theatre/Dance, Music/Sound, and Film. The Festival takes place online at neunow.com and live in Porto, 11-15 July. Deadline for nominations is 31 January.

QA&E Experts Workshop
In the last years ELIA has developed a distinct approach towards Quality Assurance and Enhancement, including a methodology tailored for Higher Arts Education Institutions. The next training workshop for QA&E experts is in Birmingham, 23-25 February.

Languages through Lenses: Call for proposals
ELIA and CILECT are organising the fifth edition of Languages through Lenses. We invite students to submit proposals for new video productions that highlight the advantages of speaking and learning foreign languages in innovative, witty, creative, unexpected ways. Selected projects will receive a production budget of € 5000 and feature at PRIX EUROPA Festival in Berlin. Deadline for proposals is 1 March.

Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm
13 january 2012 ~ post by Floris Solleveld

Edited by Pascal Gielen and Paul de Bruyne, the publication Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm: Realism versus Cynicism will be presented at the symposium Theory and Art of Teaching Art and Theory in Groningen, 16 February.

Live from the ELIA Leadership Symposium
07 december 2011 ~ post by Floris Solleveld

The Leadership Symposium is opening today at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver. You can read what's going on through the conference blog. From 13:00 local time, you can also follow the opening through a live stream.

Anna Neubauer new Chancellor of HFBK Hamburg
07 december 2011 ~ post by Floris Solleveld

As of January 2012, Dr. Anna Neubauer will be the new Chancellor of University of the Arts (HFBK) Hamburg. She succeeds Horst-Volkert Thiel, who was Chancellor from 2006-2011 and is now retiring. More in the HFBK Newsletter Lerchen_Feld.