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Friday 28 November 2025 Now Live: ELIA Emerging Artists Showcase 2025 » Image: "Once Upon a Woman" by Bertine Monsen, courtesy of Kristiania University of Applied Sciences ...
Wednesday 19 November 2025 Following the Compass » Credit: LUCA School of Arts ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen reports from Brussels on the launch of the new Cult...
Wednesday 19 November 2025 From Crisis to Learning: UAx Impact Report Now Live » ELIA's UAx Platform is proud to release its impact report, From Crisis to Learning: UAx After Two Years of Implement...
Wednesday 19 November 2025 How Collaboration with ASIMUT Strengthens the Higher Arts Education Community » Photo from the ELIA Leadership Symposium 2025. How It All Started In the world of higher art...
Tuesday 11 November 2025 A New Chapter in EU-Swiss Research and Education Partnerships » Switzerland’s official entry into several EU funding programmes, long anticipated by the European higher education and res...
Monday 3 November 2025 ELIA Biennial 2026 Is Calling You to Go Off Centre! » The Call for Contributions is now open for ELIA Biennial Conference 2026: Going Off Centre ! The upcoming Biennial will...
Tuesday 14 October 2025 Survey: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion » In recent years, the EDI Working Group has worked to advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity across our institutions...
Monday 13 October 2025 Host the ELIA Leadership Symposium 2027 » ELIA Leadership Symposium 2027: Call for Nominations for Venues ELIA is looking for its next host for the ELIA Leaders...
Thursday 20 November 2025 From Crisis to Learning: UAx Impact Report Now Live » ELIA's UAx Platform is proud to release its impact report, From Crisis to Learning: UAx After Two Years of Implementati...
Tuesday 18 November 2025 Attention, Care, and Time: Insights from Zoöp Connections » ELIA's new Green Team intern Anna Lina Litz reports on what happens when artists are encouraged to immerse themselves in e...
Friday 7 November 2025 Perspectives of Asian-European Collaboration in Higher Arts Education » ELIA Representative Board member, Pawel Pokutycki travelled on 15 October to Seoul for the International Animation Confer...
Tuesday 4 November 2025 ELIA x Cultuur & Campus Putselaan Hybrid Panel Session » As part of the Where Arts and Community Meet Conference organised by Cultuur & Campus Putselaan in Rotterdam, ELIA...
Monday 3 November 2025 Why Artistic Research Meets the Criteria » ELIA Vice-President Jørn Mortensen delivered the opening keynote on the value and relevance of artistic research at P+ART...
Thursday 23 October 2025 ELIA Advocates for Long-term EU-investment in Research and Education in the Arts » On Tuesday 23 September, Executive Director Maria Hansen, and Advocacy Manager Irene Garofalo represented ELIA at the Hig...
Wednesday 22 October 2025 Unlocking Creativity: Key Skills for the Future » ELIA Head of Programmes Barbara Revelli reports back from the “Unlocking Creativity: Key Skills for the Future”,...
Wednesday 22 October 2025 ELIA X MONDIACULT 2025 » Photo taken at Creative Skills Week 2025 by Štěpán Filip. From 29 September to 1 October, Barcelona hosted the UNESCO W...
Wednesday 22 October 2025 Culture as the Connective Tissue: ELIA at the World Cities Culture Summit and EIT Cities and Regions » Anastasia Stamoglou, ELIA’s EU Policy & Research Trainee, together with Gaby Muñiz, ELIA’s Social Media and Content Sp...
Tuesday 21 October 2025 Leading Together » ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen reflects on the ELIA Leadership Symposium in Geneva, celebrating the ELIA network’s c...
Monday 20 October 2025 Announcing UAxEU - UkrAinian cultural eXchange with European Union » ELIA is proud to have been selected to coordinate one of four largescale projects contracted under Creative Europe’s cal...
Tuesday 14 October 2025 Call for New PIE Working Group Members » Are you interested in driving collaboration, exchanging insights, and supporting practical approaches to internationalisat...
Tuesday 14 October 2025 ELIA EDI Community Meeting 2026: Call for Contributions » We are excited to announce that ELIA's EDI Community Hub 2026 will be hosted by Escola Superior de Música de Catal...
Thursday 9 October 2025 Welcome Our Newest Member: Dar al-Kalima University (DAK) » We are proud to introduce our newest member: Dar al-Kalima University (DAK), Bethlehem, Palestine. Dar al-Kalima...
Wednesday 8 October 2025 ELIA Joins CAE & 30+ Networks to Defend Creative Europe Programme » Culture Action Europe (CAE) , collectively with 30 European cultural networks and organisations, including ELIA, has issue...
Tuesday 16 September 2025 ELIA Contributes to UNESCO MONDIACULT 2025 » We are delighted to announce ELIA’s involvement in the lead-up to UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sust...
Tuesday 16 September 2025 Climate Neutral Buildings for Future-Proof Cities » The ELIA Green team wants to share the excellent news that A-Lab, the building where ELIA’s office is located, is in the f...
Tuesday 16 September 2025 A New Term » EDI Platform Meeting 2024. Photo by Nendre Zilinskaite. ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen shares the start of the...
Friday 12 September 2025 Registrations Open for ELIA x CAN Webinar » All are invited to join this open online conversation based on From Margins to Masterpieces: Charting Pathways to Strengt...
Tuesday 2 September 2025 Call for Students: Join Us at the ELIA Leadership Symposium 2025 » Photo: Tom Cox. ELIA Leadership Symposium 2023, Manchester. Pictured: Sumithreyi Sivapalan, Student Arts Practitioner, Man...
Monday 18 August 2025 ELIA Welcomes Newest Member: University of Agder (UiA) » We are delighted to welcome our newest member: The Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Agder (UiA). Fo...
Tuesday 12 August 2025 Participate in the CSW2025 Online Programme » Registration for Online Participation in Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) now open! You can now register...
Monday 4 August 2025 Join ELIA as Our Next Events Intern! » Are you interested in developing online, hybrid, and in-person events for the higher arts education sector? Would you like...
Monday 4 August 2025 ARA’s Collective Response to Horizon Europe 2028–2034 Proposal » As part of the Artistic Research Alliance (ARA), ELIA welcomes the doubling of the budget of Horizon Europe for the peri...
Wednesday 23 July 2025 ELIA Resists Threats to Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity across Higher Arts Education » 23 July, 2025 ELIA POSITION PAPER ELIA is alarmed by the growing backlash and extensive restriction...
Tuesday 22 July 2025 Headlines from the EU Budget Proposal 2028-2034 » What the European Commission’s €2 trillion budget proposal for 2028-2034 could mean for the higher arts education communit...
Tuesday 22 July 2025 One More Before Summer Break » ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen shares one last update before the summer break, with the recent EU Budget proposal fo...
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