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Dear ELIA Newsletter reader,

June is graduation month, and end-of-term storms are blowing through the corridors. While graduation shows and festivals are keeping all art schools busy, we are very grateful for your contributions to the NEU/NOW festival: over two hundred fresh graduates were nominated by our members to participate in the virtual festival this autumn, and live in Vilnius in November this year.

Meanwhile, we are packing for the Teachers' Academy in Sofia next week. For four days, we will gather to learn from each other, follow workshops, and engage in storytelling. There will be wikis and puppets, bards in the market place, Qiang dance and African storytelling, as well as masterclasses by Dick Ross and Kristin Linklater. We also welcome this opportunity to present our most recent publications, …I see you and Reminder.
To remain on top of what goes on in Higher Arts Education, artesnet is preparing a directory of examples of ground-breaking educational experiment. We have started a survey and welcome all, and especially TA participants, to supply examples through our questionnaire.

PARADOX, the ELIA Fine Art section, is organizing a conference at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Palermo, 21-22 September, under the title "Transition and Progression in Fine Art Education and Research." And although the Leadership Symposium (Zurich, 2-4 December) seems still far away, it is actually your last chance to register for the early bird fee before 15 July.

Also, we are keeping you updated on European news from the cultural front.

I wish you a pleasant read,

Kind regards,

Carla Delfos,
Executive Director ELIA


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 in fine art education and research
Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo, Italy, 21-22 September 2009

PARADOX, the ELIA Fine Art Section, is organizing a two-day conference in Palermo, Sicily on 21-22 September. Discussion groups will focus on four topics: There will be presentations of examples across Europe and of student work. Speakers include Kevin Atherton, Emilia Telese & Daniela Bigi, and Henk Slager (Utrecht School of the Arts).

Conference fee: € 100,-.
Full programme >>
Registration form >>

paradox.wimbledon.ac.uk


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 Towards a directory of examples

Artesnet is making an inventory of experimental best practice in arts & design education.
Experiment here should be understood as pedagogical practice framed by the quality assurance and enhancement of our time, but also as challenging it and testing new approaches, sometimes maybe going against the current of the normal sense of qualitative curriculum management.

As a first draft the directory would look for experiments which We would like to start by asking your advice. What, in your opinion, would be examples of experimental pedagogical approaches in art education that would be interesting to investigate further and discuss?

To supply us with examples, you would greatly help us by filling in this questionnaire >>


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 makes culture move

ELIA is participating in the PRACTICS project, coordinated by the Finnish Theatre Information Centre which joined forces with ten other cultural organisations from six EU-countries with the aim to facilitate the provision of information about EU cross-border mobility in the cultural sector.

The project will develop so-called "EU Cultural Mobility Contact Points" (CMCPs) which it will pilot in four EU-countries: Belgium, Spain, Wales and the Netherlands. Their task will be to offer relevant and user-friendly information to: www.practics.org


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 Art education in cultural transition
Columbia College Chicago, 21-24 April 2010

In partnership with Columbia College Chicago, ELIA organizes a joint international symposium on the role of artist and the 'claim to creativity'. Creativity is a word being employed freely these days, not just in the arts but in commerce, organizational behaviour, leadership theory, and many other areas. This raises significant questions for artists and art educators on how to position themselves in this discourse, and what constitutes their claim to creativity.

The conference website will go online soon at www.claimingcreativity.com; please keep an eye on this site.


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 25 June, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts

As you are reading this, Carla Delfos, Executive Director of ELIA since its founding in 1990, is being awarded Honorary Fellowship from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
You can read the speech she delivered at Columbia College Chicago, on receiving a honorary doctorate on 17 May, here >>


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 Starting this summer, at least 3 months

ELIA is looking for an intern for at least three months. The internship at our small but energetic ELIA team offers a unique learning experience in an international environment. Through supporting desk research on new programmes and developments in higher arts education, and/or project management for an international student festival, the intern will learn relevant insights in international policy development in the field of higher arts education and in managing European projects.

Please apply with a short CV and a letter of motivation.
Your application should be sent to Lars Ebert: lars.ebert [at] elia-artschools.org

ELIA can pay a moderate subsistence.


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 eliaartschools.wordpress.com

To keep you updated on what's going on more directly without stuffing your mailbox, we have started an ELIA blog. Here, we will report from Sofia and future conferences live, publish refelections and regular interviews, and keep an eye on what goes on in our member schools. Therefore, we appreciate it if you sometimes drop a line. You can find us at eliaartschools.wordpress.com , and through the link on the navigation bar.

Recent posts: Also take a look at Labforculture's series on cultural blogging in Europe


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ELIA welcomes the following new members:
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 Publication forthcoming

On 29 October - 1 November 2008, the 10th ELIA Biennial took place in Gothenburg. Under the title "reminder", ELIA is now preparing a publication to remind us all of what it was about. It includes the plenary speech of leading theatre director Peter Sellars as well as the keynote from Vladimir Sucha (European Commission). Each of the symposia had an 'observer' whose task was to supply an outside perspective; from ELIA, there are contributions by Chris Wainwright, Carla Delfos, and Sally Mometti.
"Reminder" will be distributed from June onward.


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 New ELIA publication

In 2007, students from ELIA member schools in seven countries participated in the film project "The Language of the Arts and Intercultural Dialogue". In a variety of styles, from documentary to drama, stop-trick and cartoon animation to wordless art film, each contributed a short film that dealt with the theme of intercultural dialogue from their own artistic and personal standpoint. As a learning process for what the artist is up to facing the challenges of the present, the project included two preparatory and one summing-up seminar, which addressed such issues as modernity in a multicultural world, the art of filmmaking, and the question: what is to be done?

Directed by Danish filmmaker Ove Nyholm, the result of this was the 45-minute film compilation ...I see you, which premiered at the film festival in Torino in November 2007, and was the subject of lively discussion at the The Arts as Dialogue? symposium in Gothenburg (10th ELIA Biennial).

ELIA has now issued a publication which both documents the project and provides further reflection on the topics at hand through interviews with the participants and articles by authors from different fields. It includes a dvd with the full ...I see you film and each individual contribution. Through this combination of art and theory, and its exploration of cultural diversity through the eyes of young filmmakers, it is both a contribution to often heated debates in an artistic voice and a tool for teaching.

Members can order a copy for € 10,-;
non-members for € 20 + shipping costs.

The publication will be presented at the 4th ELIA Teachers’ Academy in Sofia, 1-4 July. You can preview it here >> and order it here >>

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 29-30 September 2009

A large-scale European Cultural Forum will be held in Brussels, organised by the European Commission in order to discuss the progress in the field of the European agenda on culture. The outcomes of both the three Culture Platforms (see more about the platforms below) and of the current collaboration between the EU ministries of Culture will be among the issues to be discussed.
The three platforms represent the cultural sector in all its diversity. The EU member states are involved in a process called ‘the open method of coordination’ (OMC) developing more cooperation and joint objectives between the 27 EU countries. Key issues include mobility of artists and collections; access to culture and the potential of the creative industries; synergies between culture and education; developing joint statistics and the implementation of the ‘UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions’.

The Culture Forum will be organised in the frame of the 2009 year of Creativity and Innovation. A number of fringe meetings may be interesting to attend as well. If you are planning to attend or need more information, please contact Truus Ophuysen

The European Culture Forum website will be online from the end of June; please go to ec.europa.eu/culture

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 also including higher arts education

On 8-10 June the ‘European Cultural platforms’ met for the second time. Last year the European Commission initiated three Cultural Platforms as part of the ‘structured dialogue with the sector’. ELIA participates in this dialogue together with approximately 60 other European professional organizations, foundations and networks from different creative sectors and disciplines. Truus Ophuysen participated in the three platform meetings and briefly reports on the outcomes. The policy documents of the platforms are currently being finalised and will be posted on the European Culture Forum website as well as sent around in the next ELIA Newsletter.

Each of the three Platforms has developed a different approach.
  1. The Platform for Intercultural Europe was already initiated by Culture Action Europe in the frame of the Year for Intercultural Dialogue 2008, connecting grass-roots practitioners, associations, public bodies and European networks in the field of education, anti-discrimination, minority groups, social initiatives, forming strong links from practice to policy and back again. The Platform published a ‘Rainbow Paper’ with recommendations and set two priorities for this year: capacity-building and the role of the arts in intercultural dialogue. The Platform is now continuing as an association and 30 organisations joined already. It is also open to individuals. If you are interested in the work or in joining go to www.intercultural-europe.org

  2. The Access to Culture Platform adopted a joint policy paper with input from three working groups (creation and creativity / education / participation) and brainstormed on future perspectives. Both ELIA and AEC are active within this platform and arts education forms a key part of the platform. As access to culture is not a particular priority within current EU culture policy, the results can be seen as a first step to put these issues higher on the European agenda. The joint policy paper puts questions around access to culture in a human rights / cultural rights framework and formulates recommendations. The Platform participants agreed on the importance to have the policy paper distributed and debated among their members and within the cultural sector in general.

  3. The Cultural Industries Platform brings together mainly creative industry organisations in music, film, theatre, publishers, authors, architecture etc. Higher Arts Education is represented by ELIA and the AEC. It produced a position paper, aiming to influence the EU upcoming ‘Green Paper on cultural industries’ in 2010. Each sector is still free to defend more specific interests. The participating organisations will also present the Platform position to national, regional and local levels. Education and training is addressed within the paper and during the discussions the Platform showed a definite interest in further collaboration between the cultural/creative industries and higher arts education.
A joint meeting of the three Platforms, initiated by Culture Action Europe, concluded that the structured dialogue should become more bottom-up and that the recommendations should be communicated to both the sector and to the different levels of power in European cultural policymaking. The European Commission encouraged the Platforms to deepen the dialogue with the OMC working groups, in particular with national governments directly, as the member states are the main decision-makers for many of the issues addressed by the Platforms. An effort should also be made to enter in a productive dialogue with other DGs of the European Commission, in particular regional policies, education, employment and social rights, enterprise, science and technology.

If you would need drafts of the papers or have comments feel free to contact Truus Ophuysen: truus.ophuysen [at] elia-artschools.org


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Education Cooperation with Australia, Japan and the Republic of Korea
Deadline: 15 September 2009

The Industrialised Countries Instrument (ICI) programme promotes cooperation between the European Union and seventeen industrialised and other high-income countries and territories. One of the supported specific actions promotes ‘people-to-people links’ with the aim to enhance mutual understanding between cultures and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge.
This Call for Proposals supports cooperation in the form of Joint Mobility projects focusing on structured exchanges of students and staff members as well as on the development of joint or shared curricula and study programmes. Applicants must be from one of the partner countries Australia, Japan or the Republic of Korea and from one of the 27 EU-countries.

Projects must address: development of innovative international curricula; student services, language and cultural preparation; organisational frameworks for student mobility and faculty members' mobility; evaluation; sustainability and dissemination. It is anticipated that three to four projects EU-Australia, one to two projects EU–Japan and three to four projects EU-Republic Korea will be funded in 2009.

The Call is open to higher education institutions, to vocational education and training institutions and to consortia of higher education and/or vocational education and training institutions.
For more information see the EACEA site >>


Pre-announcement New Call Erasmus Mundus Action 2 External Cooperation Window Anticipated Deadline 15 October 2009

Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education aiming to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through cooperation with Third-Countries. It supports:
>> Erasmus Mundus now also supports doctoral programmes
This Action 2 Call supports exchanges of students (Bachelors, Masters, Doctoral ) as well as staff between the EU and Latin-America, in particular Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

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The Open Society Institute will give $100 million to help communities in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union hardest hit by the global economic downturn. The funds are a one-time gift to be spent over the next two years in the Balkans, the Baltics, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Ukraine.

In the face of rising political extremism, the OSI grant is meant to counter the dramatic effects of budget and donation cuts. The money is not yet earmarked, but Soros expresses his priority as "helping young people, the next generation", and urges the EU to do more in terms of support, including financial support: "The EU must solidify support for EU values."

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Fourth international conference on the arts in society
Venice, Italy, 28 - 31 July 2009

The International Conference on the Arts in Society and the International Journal of the Arts in Society provide an intellectual platform for the arts and art practices, and enable an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities.

The theme of this year's Conference is Art and Transnationalism. It focuses dialogue on the arts and art practices that may be situated within the context of international art expositions, festivals and biennials which are engaged with the transnational production of art and its global distribution networks.

The 2009 Arts Conference will coincide with the Venice Biennale, and will be held in conjunction with featured exhibitions and programs.

www.Arts-Conference.com


The Knowledge Triangle shaping the Future of Europe
Gothenburg, Sweden, 31 August - 2 September 2009

The importance of a well-functioning knowledge triangle in the form of interaction between education, research and innovation has been emphasised by EU leaders since 2006. As part of the Swedish presidency of the EU, this will be the topic of a three-day conference in Gothenburg on 31 August - 2 September.

Increased demands are being made on universities to engage in education, research and innovation alike. This requires a new and more modern view of institutions of higher education and is an important part of the process of modernisation which has made varying degrees of progress in the countries of Europe. This development requires the support of coordinated measures at both national and EU level, including stronger interaction between policies in the three areas constituting the knowledge triangle. The issue of the knowledge triangle is also of particular current interest following the EU decision to establish a European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at Gothenburg University is actively partcipating in the seminar on art schools and the knowledge triangle: sustainable intervention in the urban landscape.

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CARTOGRAPHY bodymemento
An Interdisciplinary Seminar on Choreography in Theory and Practice
Danube University Krems, Austria, 5-12 September

TanzAtelier Wien is opening the International Choreolab Austria at Danube University Krems, Department for Arts and Management. The pilot project intends to create interfaces for the open dance landscape with aspects of applied research and thus conduct a scientific discourse with architecture, music, literature, film, and subsequently with medicine, behavioral science, psychology, ethnology and other disciplines.

During the preparatory phase for a master study program in choreography, innovative approaches to theory and practice will be investigated in 2009/ 2010 and both contextually relevant theories and knowledge related to music and drama taught in three project modules.

ICLA is starting with a week-long interdisciplinary symposium. The target group includes dancers, performers, choreographers as well as other professionals concerned with movement, time and space.

www.icla.at
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Creative Economy and Beyond
International Conference on the Creative Economy
Helsinki, Finland, 9-10 September 2009

If there were four things that enabled a better future for the creative economy, what would they be?

Creative Economy and Beyond is an international conference examining the role of the creative industries in the economy, held in Helsinki on the 9th and 10th of September 2009 at the Cable Factory cultural centre.

The Creative Economy and Beyond conference challenges experts in the field to present their ideas for a sound basis for the concept of a creative economy and to discuss the future of creativity and innovation. It aims to provide a global and multidisciplinary forum for a variety of perspectives such as management, leadership, cultural studies, policy making and design. In addition to the latest research, the program will also include case presentations on successful creative industries business ventures and global perspectives on the creative industries. The rich conference programme is ensured through collaboration with Helsinki Design Week -festival.

The conference is aimed for researchers, policy makers, education providers, developers and businesses interested in the development of a creative economy.

www.ceb.fi


6th Cinefest International Festival for Young Filmmakers
11-20 September 2009, Miskolc, Hungary

The 6th Cinefest International Festival of Young Filmmakers will take place from 11 to 20 September, 2009, in Miskolc, Hungary.
Each year, after a careful pre-selection, the top 40-50 films have the opportunity to compete in the official program.
Many attractive supplementary programs - exhibitions, workshops, roundtable discussions - will accompany the nightly screenings. Some fine concerts, film history workshops and a retospectives will accompany the event. In the previous years the professinal programs covered the Hungarian 1956 revolution (2006), the Roma image of the region's filmmakers (2007) and the women`s condition in the transforming world (2008).

www.cinefest.hu


ORCiM Research Festival
Showcase of research in and through musical practice
Orpheus Research Centre in Music, 16-18 September 2009, Ghent, Belgium

As the culmination of over a year of intensive research in-and-through musical practice by its members, the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM) presents its first Festival of music and ideas.
In a collaborative research environment, through presentations, lecture-performances, performances and installations, ORCiM Research Fellows will share aspects of their cutting-edge insights into music with other research fellows. This Festival will also reveal future directions for ORCiM, as it disseminates the work of its researchers in Europe and around the world.

www.orpheusinstituut.be


World Summit on Arts and Culture
Meeting of Cultures: Making Meaning Through the Arts
Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-25 September 2009

Co-hosted by IFACCA and the Arts Council of South Africa, the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture takes place in Johannesburg, 22-25 September. The context for the theme is a world which is increasingly divided by ‘cultural’ rather than political ideology, where feelings of being threatened by ‘other’ are largely based on ignorance about ‘other’. Increased globalisation, through economic integration, is often criticised for ‘homogenising’ the views and interests of economic and militarily powerful nations, at the same time that diversity and the desire to build ‘multicultural’ societies has become increasingly important. The implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is just one example of this.

Notwithstanding the recent collapse of communism and apartheid, the world remains – and is in fact, increasingly – divided, with adverse implications for global relations, for nations and for communities within nations. Such divisions – at least in how they are expressed or perceived – have taken on a more ‘cultural’ form.

The arts – music, theatre, dance, literature, film, visual arts and craft etc – are seen by some as a possible bridge between cultures, to provide safe, non-threatening points of entry into understanding ‘other’.

A major component of the preparation for the Summit is a survey being conducted on IFACCA’s behalf by ERICarts: ‘Achieving Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts and Culture?’

www.artsummit.org


6th Sensuous Knowledge Conference
23-25 September 2009, Solstrand, Norway

The Bergen Academy of the Arts invites practitioners from all art disciplines, including design and the performing arts, to submit requests for participation at the sixth Sensuous Knowledge Conference.

Under the heading "Reflection, Relevance, Responsibility" this year’s conference will focus upon three important aspects of artistic research. Often critical reflection is put forward as one of the differences between artistic practice and artistic research, and promoted as an alternative to the scientific conventions of thinking and writing. However, very little investigation has been done by us on the notion of reflection – what is it expected to contain and convey?

The annual international Sensuous Knowledge conferences, arranged since 2003 by Bergen National Academy of the Arts (Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, KHiB) and supported by The Research Council of Norway, are known for their distinctive format: About 70 artists and designers involved in higher art and design education meet for three days in the spectacular surroundings at Solstrand, close to Bergen.

Proposals should be sent before 15 June to:
sensuous.knowledge [at] khib.no >>

Download call >>
www.sensuousknowledge.org


KlangKunstBühne 09 | An International Summer Academy
An Interdisciplinary Search for new Images, Sounds, Spaces and Figures

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
26 September - 11 October / 14 - 29 November 2009

Now in its sixth year, KlangKunstBühne again ventures into the zones where music, theatre and visual art meet. Jurji A. Vasiljev und Philippe Gaulier's courses offer basic acting and vocal training for actors as well as for artists from other disciplines. The 'now' of theatre – real and imaginary spaces, hidden realities, unspeakable forms – are the focus of César Brie's workshops. Candice Breitz deals with the development of individual multimedia 'instruments' and their ramifications. Christina Kubisch experiments with the sounds of electromagnetic fields in urban space and Josef Anton Riedl and Michael Lentz explore sound poetry, acoustic art, speech acts and electronic sounds.

KlangKunstBühne is a continuing education program offered by the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) Berlin. It is aimed at all artistic disciplines. Over the course of a week, participants experience the possibilities of moving beyond the borders of their disiciplines. Through the work with renowned international artists, new knowledge and abilities are acquired in previously unexplored areas and the possibilities of participants' own artistic expression are broadened.

For more information, please contact:
klangkunstbuehne [at] udk-berlin.de
www.klangkunstbuehne.de


Second Annual Culture Programme Conference
Brussels, Belgium, 28 - 30 September 2009

On 28-30 September 2009 the second annual Culture Programme Conference and the mid-term European Culture Forum will take place in Brussels.
The Culture Programme Conference on Monday 28 September will present past and ongoing projects (funded by Culture 2000 and the Culture Programme 2007-2013), encouraging exchange of experience and good practice between cultural operators.
The European Culture Forum on 29-30 September aims to bring together around 600 participants from culture civil society, Member States and EU institutions to take stock of progress in implementing the European Agenda for Culture.
Over two days, participants will exchange views and experience around the three strategic objectives of the Agenda: cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue; culture as a catalyst for creativity; and culture as a vital element in the EU's international relations. Keynote speeches, panel discussions and workshops will all feed the debate.

Watch the site of the European Commission >> for updates.


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IETM Autumn Plenary Meeting
Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-11 October 2009

The IETM Autumn Plenary Meeting in Vilnius October 8-11 2009 will put a new point on IETM meetings map. East is the direction. East, which became very sexy two decades ago, right after the Berlin Wall came down. East, which started losing its glamour as the iron curtain sank into history.

The meeting in Vilnius will deal with Eastern promises on one hand and Western expectations on the other. It will explore new colonisation of all sorts, going from the East to the West and vice versa; and the territories culture and art have colonised in our own societies.

The meeting will take place at Menu spaustuve (Arts Printing House), a performing arts centre and creative industries harbour, which "colonised" an abandoned printing house back in 2000.

www.ietm.org


The Art Text – Writing in and through the arts
Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
9 October 2009

Call for applications
Deadline: 30 June

An international symposium for art researchers and research students on an advanced level. A platform for discussion of what kind of texts and writing are developed within the field of art research. Not criticism, not scientific texts. But texts for analysis, documentation, and development of art projects and art research projects. New kinds of essay writing? Let's explore the field together, along the following parallel themes: There will be 5 presentations in each parallel symposium, i.e. 15 presentations altogether.
The selected contributions will be published in one of the three magazines Artmonitor, MaHKUzine, Art&Research. The final paper should be 10 000 characters.

Conference fee: 40 €

Please send in your application with a sketch of your presentation (1 page) no later than 30 June 2009 to Johan Öberg, University of Gothenburg:
johan.oberg [at] konst.gu.se


Imece 2009: Fine Arts & Design Symposium
Eskisehir, Turkey, 14-18 October 2009

Celebrating its 25th birthday, Anadolu University, Faculty of Fine Arts has continuously expanded its activities within the university and the city it is located in with a purpose of fostering its relations with its environment. Imece, or the pleasure of creating together, is the central concept of this symposium. Adopting an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, the symposium explores the relation of art and design with the future, technology, environment and craftsmanship, and highlights that art and design are not merely aesthetic practices but also cultural paradigms.
Themes include The future of tradition, Intercultural and Interdiscplinary Interaction, and Creativity and sharing.

www.imece2009.anadolu.edu.tr


Making ends meet
Innovative ways of funding international students
Stockholm, Sweden, 15 October 2009

Have you ever wondered what one student costs? Then you might know what the costs of one international student are. Across Europe, more countries and their universities are seeking innovative approaches to the financing of international students – a topic intrinsically linked to the funding of higher education per se. Clearly, institutions want to ensure that they can attract high quality students and young researchers in the face of increasing global competition. But are fees and scholarships the only way to do it? Are there other options? What are the legal frameworks? All these questions require higher education professionals to understand both the policy and marketing context.

A European Policy Seminar by the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA), co-organised by the Swedish Institute (SI), will provide case studies from countries and universities across Europe so that delegates might: www.aca-secretariat.be


17th ENCATC Annual Conference
Barcelona, Spain, 22-24 October 2009

Organized by ENCATC in close cooperation with the University of Barcelona this major event will bring together more then 250 professionals from several countries in order to discuss about creativity and innovation in the field of education and training in cultural management.

Alongside its annual conference, and with the support of the European Cultural Foundation, ENCATC is also organizing the

Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum
Barcelona, 21-23 October

The Forum 2009 will focus on "Cross-cultural and cross-national approaches to cultural policy research". Organised to stimulate the creation of a network of young cultural policy researchers with European competencies, the YCPR Forum has the ambition to give young/early career cultural policy researchers, the opportunity to meet their fellow researchers, to exchange content related aspects and results of their work and to discuss topical research issues regarding content, methodology and relevant fields of research.

10 young researchers can be granted accommodation and travel costs if they submit their applications until July 6th 2009 to ENCATC: communications [at] encatc.org

www.encatc.org


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AEC annual congress
Maastricht, Netherlands, 5-7 November 2009

The European Association of Conservatoires, Music Academies and Musikhochschulen will organize its 2009 annual congress at the Academy of Music in Maastricht. The AEC will continue to address the role of research in conservatoire education during this year’s congress. Information about the progress of the second 3-year cycle of the ERASMUS Network for Music ‘Polifonia’ will also be presented. Furthermore, the AEC Congress 2009 will address the local and regional function of conservatoires as cultural centres.

For artesnet related readers, it is particularly interesting to take a look at Polifonia's progress report, on download at the AEC homepage.

www.aecinfo.org


Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts
Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland
19-21 November 2009

How does artistic research change us?

Artistic research does not only produce knowledge; it also changes us as individual and collective beings – artists, pedagogues, spectators, citizens, consumers. In what ways can this kind of change be the object of research? Could the change itself serve as a criterion for the relevance of the research? Researchers are invited to join the colloquium and share their experiences on the transformative dimensions of their artistic research practice.

The colloquium will be organised to take account of the special features of various artistic research practices: the concrete set up; cooperative action and collective reflection; the role and place of the observers or participants.

The colloquium will take place over three days. On Thursday, presenters will have the possibility to hold day-long workshops for other colloquium participants and the doctoral students of the Performing Arts Research Centre. Friday and Saturday are reserved for all kinds of presentations, including the possible presentation of the workshops, and discussions.

We kindly encourage you to submit presentation, demonstration and workshop proposals on your practice and your experience with artistic research related to the performing arts. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include 50 words of biographical detail on the presenter.

Annika.Fredriksson [at] teak.fi
www.teak.fi


Creativity and Diversity: Challenges for Quality Assurance beyond 2010
Fourth European Quality Assurance Forum
Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-21 November 2009

Call for papers
Deadline: 20 August 2009

The 4th European Quality Assurance Forum – co-organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE and supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission – will be hosted by the Copenhagen Business School (Copenhagen, Denmark) on 19 – 21 November 2009.

The main goal of this event is to provide a discussion forum centred on how current internal and external quality assurance approaches take account of institutional diversity and support creativity in higher education. Through plenary and parallel sessions, the discussion will frame these issues in the context of the ongoing construction of the European Higher Education Area.

The forum provides a platform for discussion and exchange of experiences among the main stakeholders in quality assurance. Specifically, the forum will be of interest to rectors and vice-rectors responsible for QA, QA officers in higher education institutions, students, QA agency staff, employers and researchers working on higher education or the QA field.

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