The applicant institution NATFA - The National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria and the co-ordinating organisation ELIA - The European league of Institutes of the Arts have received the grant for the Erasmus network project artesnet Europe .
The creative partnership network artesnet Europe sees itself as a Europe-wide ‘community of practice’, connecting practitioners from the creative/cultural sector, teaching staff from art schools, educators, and artistic researchers from almost all EU-countries, Iceland, Norway, and Turkey. artesnet Europe develops new approaches in learning, teaching and research in the arts in a rapidly changing European context of new employment opportunities for artists in the ‘Economy of Culture’, knowledge-based society and national/European qualifications networks. ‘artesnet Europe’ pilots and collects best practice of artistic and creative partnerships between art schools, non-formal education and local communities. ‘artesnet Europe’ supports online infrastructures/services and sub-networks. ‘artesnet Europe’ has organised its work in three strands: creative partnerships, qualifications frameworks, and New Strategies, New Programmes.
A network steering group has been established, chaired by the applicant organisation National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, an ELIA representative and the strand leading partner organisations (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre; Utrecht School of the Arts; Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England Birmingham; Dublin Institute of Technology).
The role of the steering group is to coordinate between the different strands, to set out overall strategies and to coordinate organisational/financial planning and evaluation. The steering group will at least meet a minimum of twice a year, but will meet as much as necessary, mostly in connection with network meetings or events.
The role of the chair, professor Snejina Tankovska of the applicant organisation, is to ensure the overall direction of the network, to coordinate between the strands and to signal planning and organisational issues.
The needs, objectives and key themes are clustered into 3 interconnected thematic strands:
Strand 1
Creative Partnerships: arts, schools, and society
Leading partner institution: Utrecht School of the Arts, Netherlands
Chair: Thera Jonker
- maps existing and builds new creative partnerships between arts institutions and the creative industry/cultural sector (enterprises, communities, semi-governmental bodies).
- identifies, documents and supports the exchange of ‘effective practices’ of innovative educational projects and programmes, involving artists in the creative industry/cultural sector with an impact on local communities and develops categories and criteria for evaluation of such projects, approaching evaluation as a tool to make ‘reflective practice of creative work explicit and conscious’.
- supports the development of sub-networks and working conferences bringing together partnerships between art schools and creative projects and supports strand 2 developing the concept for a ‘teachers’ academy’ in 2009.
Qualifications Frameworks: learning, teaching
Leading partner institution: Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England, Birmingham UK
Chair: John Butler
- further develops and disseminates the results of the inter}artes network in the field of the Bologna objectives.
- continues to chart and test a European EQF for the arts, accompanied by updated subject-specific information in European ‘tuning’ documents, discussed and validated by representatives from the professional world. Lifelong learning pathways within the arts will be integrated in an EQF.
- undertakes a further peer visit on quality enhancement (in addition to the four visits undertaken in the previous period), accompanied by a learning workshop on quality enhancement and learning outcomes, in collaboration with the Turkish partner institutions. The panel of Higher Arts Education experts in quality enhancement, established in the previous period, will be extended and professionalised and a webpage will promote the expertise and services offered in the field of quality enhancement, external examining, institutional review and learning outcomes.
- identifies new pedagogic approaches to learning and teaching in the arts and develops the concept for a ‘teachers’ academy’ in 2009, focusing on teaching staff from Higher Arts Education institutes and educators from other fields (education, museums, projects), based on peer reviewed contributions, in collaboration with strand 1 and 3.
New Strategies, New Programmes
Leading partner institution: Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, EE
Chair: Marje Lohuaru
- identifies new strategies in arts education concerned with the support of research and the transfer of knowledge in an international context.
- maps practice-based approaches, projects and programmes, pilots an infrastructure for the further development of artistic research and distributes up-to-date information about European policies and programmes in the field of research.
- pilots different models for joint Masters’ programmes, either research or taught, by partner institutions. A European module focusing on ‘the creative practitioner in Europe’, prepared within the previous period, will be piloted and tested in partner institutions and gradually will become independent.
- produces a ‘Yearbook 2010’ for artistic research, Masters’ programmes and two working conferences.
- supports strand 2 identifying and developing the concept for a ‘teachers’ academy’ in 2009.
| 1 |
NATFA | Bulgaria, BG |
| 2 |
ELIA | Netherlands, NL |
| 3 |
Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design | Belgium, BE |
| 4 |
University College of Antwerp | Belgium, BE |
| 5 |
University College Ghent | Belgium, BE |
| 6 |
IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts | Belgium, BE |
| 7 |
GMT-2 Foundation /Bulgaria, BG | |
| 8 |
Faculty of Fine Arts Brno University of Technology | Czech Republic, CZ |
| 9 |
Duncan Centre Conservatory | Czech Republic, CZ |
| 10 |
European Council of Artists | Denmark, DK |
| 11 |
University of the Arts Bremen | Germany, DE |
| 12 |
Merz Academie | Germany, DE |
| 13 |
University of the Arts Berlin | Germany, DE |
| 14 |
Tanzplan Deutschland | Germany, DE |
| 15 |
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre | Estonia, EE |
| 16 |
KUMU Art Museum/Estonia, EE | |
| 17 |
Athens School of Fine Art | Greece, EL |
| 18 |
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece, EL |
| 19 |
High Education Drama School | Greece, EL |
| 20 |
University of Castille - La Mancha, Faculty of Fine Arts | Spain, ES |
| 21 |
Toulouse School of Art | France, FR |
| 22 |
Saint-Etienne School of Art and Design | France, FR |
| 23 |
School of Art and Design, Limerick Institute of Technology | Ireland, IE |
| 24 |
National College of Art and Design | Ireland, IE |
| 25 |
Dublin Institute of Technology | Ireland, IE |
| 26 |
Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School | Italy, IT |
| 27 |
Art Academy of Latvia | Latvia, LV |
| 28 |
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre | Lithuania, LT |
| 29 |
Academy of Drama and Film, Budapest | Hungary, HU |
| 30 |
Fontys Dance Academy | Netherlands, NL |
| 31 |
Utrecht School of the Arts | Netherlands, NL |
| 32 |
Hanze University Groningen | Netherlands, NL |
| 33 |
Kunstenaars & Co | Netherlands, NL |
| 34 |
Peace of Utrecht Cultural Program | Netherlands, NL |
| 35 |
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | Austria, AT |
| 36 |
Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theater Academy/Poland, PL | |
| 37 |
Catholic University of Portugal, School of Arts | Portugal, PT |
| 38 |
Porto Polytechnic Institute, School of Music and Performing Arts | Portugal, PT |
| 39 |
Serralves Foundation | Portugal, PT |
| 40 |
National University of Arts Bucharest | Rumania, RO |
| 41 |
University of the Arts Cluj-Napoca | Rumania, RO |
| 42 |
Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava | Slovenia, SK |
| 43 |
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava | Slovenia, SK |
| 44 |
EVTEK Institute of Arts and Design | Finland, FI |
| 45 |
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts | Finland, FI |
| 46 |
Göteborg University | Sweden, SE |
| 47 |
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design | United Kingdom, UK |
| 48 |
University of Portsmouth, School of Art and Design | United Kingdom, UK |
| 49 |
University of Winchester | United Kingdom, UK |
| 50 |
Goldsmiths College London | United Kingdom, UK |
| 51 |
University of the Arts London | United Kingdom, UK |
| 52 |
Nottingham Trent University | United Kingdom, UK |
| 53 |
The Artists Information Company | United Kingdom, UK |
| 54 |
Iceland Academy of the Arts | Iceland, IS |
| 55 |
Bergen National Academy of the Arts | Norway, NO |
| 56 |
Canakkale University | Turkey, TR |
| 57 |
Hacettepe University | Turkey, TR |
| 58 |
Erciyes University | Turkey, TR |
| 59 |
Karadeniz Technical University | Turkey, TR |
| 60 |
Cukurova Conservatory | Turkey, TR |
| 61 |
Akdeniz University | Turkey, TR |
Amsterdam, 18 January 2008
On 18 January we have successfully launched our new three year Erasmus network Artesnet Europe. Artesnet is the successor of our previous network inter}artes. At the launch the contract between the network chair, the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Sofia, Bulgaria and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) has been signed. Stanislav Semerdjiev, rector of NATFA has given the starting shot!
The 68 participants from 51 partner institutions have heard the opening speech of network chair Snejina Tankovska, Dean of Stage Arts Faculty at NATFA, the presentation of the three stands, the keynote speech of Robert Fleck and have worked on the strand planning in breakout sessions. The expertise represented by the delegates, the commitment by the partner institutions and the willingness to set out the agenda for the future of higher arts education in Europe was vibrantly present and made the launch an unforgettable day. Please stay tuned on the artesnet development to come and do not hesitate to get in contact with the project leader for any questions arising.
Please download rules for participating partners below. They show which costs are eligible for reimbursement and what is expected to be covered by your institution.
Arrangements artesnet partners . Please download the rules here.
artesnet reimbursement form . Please download the form for claiming back expenses here.
Staff hour investment form for partner institution . It is neccessary to track the time you have invested in each project meeting by using this standard form and returning it to the ELIA office within a week after each meeting. Please download the form here.
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