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Check out our previous events and activities. Get inspired and re-live your favorite moments. Explore the wide range of ELIA's offer in the past. If the event you are looking is not listed below, contact the ELIA Team.
ELIA Biennial
Taking place every two years, the ELIA Biennial Conference gathers ELIA members across different levels, from leadership to academic staff, students and international officers. Always connected to a relevant topic for the whole higher
arts education sector. Explore the past editions.
Focusing on teaching and learning development, the ELIA Academy serves as a platform for innovative exploration of pedagogical tools and methods in arts education, involving lecturers, researchers, art educators and students in a training
experience. View the past editions.
The ELIA Leadership Symposia bring together influential leaders from higher arts education institutions and universities across the globe for a timely exchange and discussion on how the economic, social, cultural, and political changes
influence different aspects of their duties and responsibilities as local leaders in the field of education. View the past editions.
NXT - Making a Living from the Arts is ELIA's EU Creative Europe project (2015 larger-scale cooperation projects - Cat 2) which was successfully completed in 2018.
Powered by SACCORD in association with CYANOTYPES, Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) serves as a central hub for the Cultural and Creative Sector and Industries
(CCSI), offering a dedicated platform for sharing knowledge and promoting new approaches to re-skilling and up-skilling. Creative Skills Week 2025 took place in Prague, Czechia from 22 to 26 September 2025.
This session explored the ME-YOU-US project and examined how pioneering art academies are transforming fashion education and shaping a more sustainable, inclusive, and diverse future through digital and interdisciplinary practices.
Hosted by Politecnico di Milano, the conference investigated possible forms of authorship vis-a-vis the contemporary knowledge production and dissemination within the design and artistic domains. Participants questioned the role of
the author and the sense of originality at present times when design and artistic research-based practices often experiment with different operating strategies.
As part of a workshop held in Stuttgart, participants collaborated with international experts including university and vocational trainers, intermediaries, and creative professionals to define and shape the core components of key entrepreneurial
competences. These were identified through extensive research, surveys, and skills intelligence gathering in the Erasmus+ project CYANOTYPES, highlighting the most urgent and future-oriented skills crucial for success in the evolving
creative landscape.
ETHO Online Session: New Material Practice in Biolabs
5 March 2025 15:00 – 16:30 CET
This session explored the creative and material experiments taking place in art academies with (bio)-labs as dynamic sites of research and learning. The discussion highlighted pioneering institutions where new material practices are
being redefined and reimagined. The session examined how material research unfolded within these environments, the insights gained, and the challenges and opportunities that arose from these innovative creative practices.
The 16th CA²RE Conference, titled Dispositions, was hosted by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture. This edition encouraged collective rethinking and open debate on dispositions in diverse ways. Its aim was to explore
the various natures of the design-driven approach and to examine its roles and impacts on today’s societies.
Higher arts education institutions from the USA, Singapore, Egypt, and Korea invited the community to join a series of online Satellite events leading up to the ELIA Biennial Conference 2024.
Starting on 30 October, these weekly online sessions acted as a precursor to the in-person conference in Milan, providing valuable discussions and insights. The online Satellite Programme explored the concept of artistic intelligence
from technological, societal, and economic perspectives. By examining topics like the role of video games in fostering empathy, developing an undergraduate certificate in AI, and integrating creative entrepreneurship in art and
design education, these discussions highlighted the potential of artistic intelligence as a driver of change. These sessionsed aim to create dialogue around how artistic practitioners and educators can leverage their unique insights
to address and tackle contemporary challenges.
Powered by the SACCORD project, in association with the Blueprint Project, CYANOTYPES, we invited participants to CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK 2024 to actively participate in shaping and steering discussion around skills, addressing gaps, opportunities for upskilling, and to start shaping strategic skills for future creatives.
The LIVE programme took place in Amsterdam on 18 & 19 September, kindly hosted by the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of Arts.
All ELIA members were invited to join us online to discuss the future of ELIA on Monday, 9 September 2024. The ELIA Representative Board and the ELIA Team have been working for the past year on developing ELIA’s new strategy. Members
joined us on Monday 9 September for an inspiring resonance workshop guided by the team from For Planet Strategy Lab.
In the General Assembly, members had the opportunity to learn more about ELIA’s activities in 2024 and cast their vote for the approval for the ELIA Annual Accounts 2024, with a report from the ELIA Audit Committee.
Creative Education Manifesto A UK case study on launching a movement for creative arts education Online session
Friday 14 June 2024
15:00 – 16:30 CEST / 14:00 – 15:30 BST
An inspiring online event co-hosted by ELIA, CHEAD, and AICAD, where we explored the #ArtIsEssential campaign, discovering its potential for change and transformation. Whether you are an educator, student, policymaker, or simply someone
who believes in the power of creativity, this event was for you. Participants had the opportunity to explore how we can drive sustainable change together. Both ELIA members and non-members were invited to join this event!
ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Working Group invited the ELIA community to the fourth EDI Online Session: Decolonising the art school,
which took place on Thursday, 13 June, from 13:00 - 15:00 (CEST) on Zoom. This session was developed under the topic of ‘Decolonising the art school’ building upon the discussions held in previous sessions and focusing on hidden
assumptions and histories from an intersectional perspective. Together, we explored the need to decolonise, and what that means? Are the universities and the arts institutions colonial and embedded in coloniality, and in what ways
is this reflected? What is the role of modernity in colonial endeavour and present coloniality?
ELIA Online Session: How To Navigate the Digital Frontier in Online Arts Learning
Wednesday 22 May 2024 15:00 – 16:00 CEST
How can you possibly teach music online? How do we preserve hands-on experiential learning while developing online courses? ELIA invited the community to an online "How to" event that aimed to unravel the evolving landscape of digital
learning and its impact on higher arts education. Participants dived into a dynamic discussion on the challenges and opportunities of creative online learning with speakers from ELIA member institutions Berklee College of Music and University of the Arts London (UAL). This session was ideal for arts administrators and educators looking to begin or advance
their distance-learning programmes with a diverse catalogue supporting lifelong learning in music and creative arts.
How do sewing skills maintain their significance in the age of virtual prototyping? What ethical considerations surround the use of body-scanning technologies? And how does AI challenge our understanding of originality? This online
session hosted by ETHO on Digital Fashion Education, delved into the Me-You-Us research project. This project explores the integration of digital tools such as 3D-prototyping, VR, AR, and AI, into fashion design education within
Higher Arts Institutes. It explores the impact of these new digital tools on pedagogical practices and whether they can be used to create more sustainable, inclusive, and diverse futures for fashion design.
The 15th CA²RE conference under the topic EXPERIMENTATION was hosted by School of Architecture – Universitat Politècnica de València. This edition of CA²RE proposed to explore the concept of experiment in the most varied and open way
possible. It demonstrated its validity as a design-driven methodology particularly focused on artistic and architectural practice.
ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Working Group invited the community to the third EDI online session: Teaching in Different Gears,
which took place on Thursday 25 January, from 13:00 - 15:00 (CET) on Zoom.
This session picked up the thread from the conversation on Inclusive Curricula during the second EDI online session. Exploring the practices and challenges of teaching inclusively, focusing on the learning experience instead
of the learning outcome, we invited participants to explore and share ideas on access, inclusion and ways of knowing more relevant and reflective of the world we inhabit and the student population.
The final conference of FAST45 took place from 6 - 8 December 2023, hosted by LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, Belgium. Taking a futures studies approach, the FAST45 (Futures Art School Trends 2045) project aims to imagine, map and shape a higher arts education landscape where participation, research, and education in the arts play a crucial and integrated role within
the sector and society as a whole. During the event, we discovered and responded to futures scenarios, findings and tools co-created as part of the EU-funded project FAST45 - Futures Art School Trends in 2045. Participants engaged
in policy debate and start constructing a roadmap that will empower higher arts education institutions to anticipate an unknown future and actively
shape it.
The 14th CA2RE conference looked at INTERSECTIONS of research: interdisciplinary and intermedial thinking and doing, research conducted within and outside academic
frameworks, research impacting broader communities, facilitating European agendas. It also reflected on the learnings of the Erasmus+ project focusing on design-driven doctoral research to arrive at broader lessons of future methodological
framing.
The European Commission’s Pact for Skills and CYANOTYPES joined forces to bring you Creative Skills Week 2023, which took place from 10 - 13 October 2023. This dynamic and
interactive event brought together stakeholders from all corners of the cultural and creative industries sector. Hosted at University of Applied Arts Vienna, this was
a unique opportunity to explore new learning and teaching methods and to co-create and shape the future skills development for the cultural and creative industries.
We kindly invited the community to participate in the CYANOTYPES two-day workshop, which took place in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
This was the third in a series of three workshops addressing urgent skills needs in the cultural and creative sectors. It aimed to co-create a learning format that provides the skills in need for cross-disciplinary collaborations
engaging a wide range of different stakeholders in the green transition.
ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Platform invited participants to their second online session, focusing on Inclusive Curricula, which
took place on Thursday 7 September, from 13:00 - 15:00 (CEST) on Zoom. This interactive session provided an opportunity for participants to exchange valuable insights and examples of inclusive curricula. How have you accommodated
students with diverse learning needs, styles and ability levels? How have you made your curricula meaning, relevant and accessible to all? What has worked and what hasn’t? Participants will also have the chance to listen to experiences
and case studies from other ELIA member institutions. All ELIA members were welcome to join and participate!
Participants were invited to the CYANOTYPES two-day workshop taking place in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
This was the second in a series of workshops examining urgent skills needs in the cultural and creative sectors and industries. It explored the relationship between creative production in the CCIS and the digital environments within
which we operate. This workshop set out to critically investigate the potential of collective intelligences that bring together human and non-human actors.
EUA-ELIA Webinar: Beyond ChatGPT - what next for generative AI in higher education?
23 June 2023 14:30 – 15:30 CEST
In recent months, generative artificial intelligence has dominated headlines due to the launch of #ChatGPT. Generative AI technologies can be used by students and teachers alike to develop new learning experiences and foster creativity.
However, there are significant concerns. This webinar took stock of higher education institutions’ experiences and explore how policies in this area may benefit institutions and their communities. This webinar was co-organised
with the European University Association.
The last ELIA General Assembly 2023 took place on 19 June 2023 from 13:00 – 14:00 (CEST). ELIA Members voted and approved on a number of items. More information can be found in the event page.
The last installment part of the FAST45 seminar series Pedagogical Life and the Digital University of the Arts was facilitated by the University engagement team at Microsoft. The series explored particular forms and aspects of pedagogical
life that may inform or instruct our imagination on the concept of the learning platform.
In the context of the ALL DIGITAL Weeks 2023, you were invited to the CYANOTYPES online workshop 'Building an Ecosystem
View', which took place on 2 May 2023. This workshop aims at reaching out across skilling frameworks – linking our “future skilling” conversation to the work done in the DigComp Community of Practice. This online workshop highlighted
cross-framework-dynamics-for-future-skilling and build an ecosystem view, with speakers Soenke Zehle and Sónia Alves. Hosted by Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar – HBKS.
We invited you to the CYANOTYPES hybrid workshop 'Rethinking Urgencies', which took place on 27 and 28 April 2023. The purpose of this two-day workshop was to map urgent skills
needs across all sectors of the CCI (Cultural & Creative Industries). Participants were able to actively participate online in this co-creation workshop led by Florian Schneider, alongside experts, among others, Lisa Lang,
Alessandro Rancati and Joe Lockwood. Hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Platform invited the ELIA Community to the first in a series of online sessions on Tuesday 25 April at 13:00 – 15:00 CEST. Each session will be led by two members of the EDI Working
Group on Zoom. The first session will be led by Cecilia Roos from Stockholm University of the Arts and Ali Şahin from Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Please note that registration for this event series is open to ELIA members
and is free of charge.
A Phenomenology of Zoom: The Possible Futures of Educational Experience
Friday, 21 April 2023
19:00 - 21:00 CEST
This online session was part of the FAST45 seminar series Pedagogical Life and the Digital University of the Arts. The series explored particular forms and aspects of pedagogical life that may inform or instruct our imagination on
the concept of the learning platform. In this presentation, Dr. Norm Friesen undertook a phenomenological examination of the videoconferencing phenomena, specifically as these are manifest in educational contexts.
Postdigital / More-Than-Digital: Ephemerality, Seclusion, and Copresence in The University
Friday, 7 April 2023
11:00 - 12:30 CEST
This online session was part of the FAST45 seminar series Pedagogical Life and the Digital University of the Arts. The series explored particular forms and aspects of pedagogical life that may inform or instruct our imagination on
the concept of the learning platform. In this seminar series, the tension between physical and virtual forms of pedagogical practice and pedagogical life will be explored. The programme was run through the FAST45 Learning Platform
over 7 x 1.5 hr sessions, each led by a key thinker on education and technology. This online session was led by speaker Lesley Gourlay.
During this online event we involved participants in thought-provoking presentations and discussions about the real-world implementation of technology and the challenges within the intersection of art, industry and education. In three
expert sessions, we discussed the ethical frictions related to AI-generated and immersive technology (AR/VR) in art, virtual communities of creative learning, and technology-infused strategies for arts teaching and learning.
During this workshop, participants became part of an interdisciplinary group of students that speculated about sustainable, beautiful and inclusive cities of the future through weaving their personal and societal pasts and presents
together. Interdisciplinary encounters and collaborations are an essential ingredient for imaginations that challenge the global urgency for climate-neutral cities. On the other hand, local specificities are as influential and
essential to social innovation as understanding the global conditions. In this workshop we learnt to connect local experiences with a global mind-set, and co-creative methods to explore alternative futures.
The last CA2RE conference focused on a Framing and Reframing of research territories, methodologies, behaviours and requires thinking more than other fields of research activity. CA2RE Glasgow: Framing and Reframing offers the opportunity
to take a deep dive into continuous threads, multiple standpoints and related perspectives, ambiguities and contradictions through sharing recent research work in progress and research findings. As a an evolving community for artistic
and architectural research itself, The Glasgow School of Art welcomed the participants to share their perspective, experience and thinking this October.
Public Participation and Deliberate Democracy Festival
20 & 21 0ctober 2022 Hybrid
The Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival is an open event that brings together people of diverse backgrounds who are interested in, and work on, engagement of citizens in science, policymaking and deliberative democracy,
in Europe and beyond. These include representatives from EU Member States, EU institutions, civil society organisations, research and academia as well as the arts world. The programme each year features a variety of events including
conversations, interactive sessions, artwork and an exhibition of participatory and deliberative democracy projects. CRAFT will be launching CrAFt Next Gen Think/Do Tanks on
Climate Change, together with 4 students from project partner institutions, on 21 October, 15:00-16:00, online.
CrAFt is an EU funded coordination and support action for New European Bauhaus transformations towards climate-neutral, beautiful and inclusive cities. In this participatory lab,
interdisciplinary student teams are invited to play an active role in the Cities Mission and the New European Bauhaus, particularly in their own cities. They will investigate a mindset of circularity, such as sharing solutions,
multi-functional urban design, spaces and infrastructures, circular governance, and societal resilience, and how they, as the next generation, can take the lead in the climate transition.
FAST45: Pushing the Frontiers of Education with AI, Blockchain, and Robots
23 September 2022
FAST45 brought another illuminating webinar delving into effects and potential of digital transformation. Digitalisation opens up new possibilities for education. While education has always been rich in data such as grades or
administrative information on students’ absenteeism, the use of data to help students learn better and teachers to teach better, and to inform decision-making in educational administrations is recent. Education stakeholders have
had a difficult relationship with technology, alternating between strong enthusiasm and scepticism. Might digital technology, and, notably, smart, technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), learning analytics, robotics,
and others, transform education in the same way they are transforming the rest of society? If so, how might this look? This talk explores this question through an overview of the opportunities and challenges of smart technologies
in the classroom and at organisational level and outline some policy pointers for the successful deployment of smart technologies in education. After his talk, Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin was joined in conversation with Prof.
Orla McDonagh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities TU Dublin.
Footnotes: Annotating the Future of Arts Education
29 August - 1 September 2022
Footnotes is a Summer School for academics, professionals, students and curious people organised by School of Commons. It took place from 29 August to 1 September 2022, on the campus of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Footnotes
is conceived as a Live Action Role-Playing Game, which will unfurl from a speculative scenario. Assume a fictional character to interpret and design future realities. No prior experience needed.
Agents of Transformation
Second cycle, third conversation
7 July 2022
The third conversation of the second cycle of Agents of Transformation which was held on Thursday 7 July 2022 bringing students together in a public dialogue with EU Youth Coordinator Biliana Sirakova.
Following the first and second conversation, students presented their ideas and visions regarding: sustainability and climate awareness in higher arts education; inclusivity, well-being and protocols of care within institutions;
impact models and circularity for climate-neutral and smart cities. Students from all disciplines, interested and engaged in sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility and innovation, were invited to actively participate in the conversation.
Plastic Justice Assembly
24 June 2022 Venue: Royal Conservatoire The Hague, Netherlands
As final event of the Plastic Justice project. The Plastic Justice Assembly took place on Friday 24 June 2022, kindly hosted by the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) at the
Royal Conservatoire The Hague in the Netherlands. This celebratory one-day in-person conference acted as a dissemination platform for all the project output to date including the Plastic Justice Repository website, Plastic
Justice Verdict policy brief and the Plastic Justice Teachers Guide. The Plastic Justice Assembly brought together experts from across journalism, activism, and design to present a series of research methods, tackling environmental
issues and public health accountability. The event also discussed contemporary approaches to integrating climate justice into education. Plastic Justice is funded by the Erasmus + Strategic Partnership Programme of the European
Union. Project partners: Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík; Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague; Elisava, Barcelona; Central Saint Martins (UAL), London, Vilnius Academy of Art and ELIA.
Campaign image by: Amber Meekel, Jack Oomes, Lucy Gengler and Elzé Vilkelyté
ELIA Members were invited to join the General Assembly, held on 20 June and take time out from their busy schedule to recharge and be inspired. Keep up-to-date with ELIA activities, catch up and reconnect with your international colleagues,
bring their favourite drink and make a toast to new adventures. We made sure the atmosphere was sunny and warm with that fuzzy ELIA feeling of togetherness by the campfire.
The CA²RE for... final (online) multiplier event on 16 June 2022 looked back on the CA²RE+ project and its impact; and forward to continuing a meaningful dialogue within the ever-growing Community for Artistic and Architectural Research
Evaluation. Highlighting the outcomes of the CA²RE+ project, the event gave a live demonstration of a CA²RE+ presentation and review concept, provided a space for reflection and discussion and featured a panel of PhD candidates,
reviewers, project coordinators and policy makers exploring the future of Collective Evaluation of Artistic and Design-driven Doctoral Training
Agents of Transformation
Second cycle, second conversation
10 June 2022
The second AOT conversation brought together students and representatives of European institutions to discuss questions regarding the sustainability, inclusivity, well-being and impact models for climate-neutral cities. Following the
first conversation and workshops on topics of: protocols of care, challenging role of arts in an era of populism, climate awareness in arts education, impact models and circularity for climate-neutral and smart cities, students
presented their first visions in how to make steps forward.
FAST45 Public Lecture V
For and Against Creativity in Art Schools Presented by Dr Michael Newall
19 May 2022
FAST45 is considering the past, present, possible and preferable futures for higher arts education and the employment of artists. This online lecture focused on different senses of creativity, and how the third kind of creativity can
be protected, nurtured – and perhaps even taught. Dr Michael Newall assumes most art school teachers still understand de Duve’s antipathy. Yet, since he railed against creativity, talk of it has only increased – in culture, and
in artist training. Influenced especially by the discourses around the “creative industries”, “creative” and “creativity” have come to appear in the names of programmes, faculties and institutions, and as requirements in programme
outcomes. In this session, Newall discussed three different senses of creativity.
FAST Forward Webinar #2
Envisioning the Future of the Artist
18 May 2022
Together with a panel of arts professionals and creative thinkers, we explored what a desirable future could look like for artists. We imagined the artist’s involvement in our society in the year 2045. Together, we envisioned the role
artists could play as social change-makers, and creative leaders and discussed the artist's relationship with technology, business, education and transdisciplinarity.
FAST45 Public Lecture IV
The Uses, Abuses and Possible Futures of the Workshop in Arts Education
Presented by Dr Jake Watts
29 April 2022
FAST45 is considering the past, present, possible and preferable futures for higher arts education and the employment of artists. The workshop is intrinsically entangled within the histories, current articulations and future envisioning
of these issues. This online lecture explored the various applications of the workshop as it has mutated across the pandemic context to address analogue, digital and hybridised learning delivery; specifically in the case of teaching
Art as Process: Ways of Learning, Making, Working Together at the University of Edinburgh. The FAST45 Learning Platform Public Lecture Series is produced by TU Dublin. This lecture & open Q&A session were moderated by Glenn
Loughran (PhD).
Agents of Transformation
Second cycle, first conversation
21 April 2022
Students interested in tackling global challenges such as climate change, sustainability, democratic resilience and social cohesion got a chance to raise their voices at an international level, propose solutions and initiatives, and
connect with peers and stakeholders to create a positive impact?
As the final to the CA2RE+ series under the themes of OBSERVATION and SHARING (STRATEGIES), COMPARISON and REFLECTION (EXPERIENCES), REFORMULATION and RECOMMENDATION (FRAMEWORK), the event for RECOMMENDATION in 2022 provided a platform
where both the learners and educators contribute to chartering future recommendations for DDDr. To combine the accumulated experience and knowledge in the previous events, the emphasis on the doctoral candidates experience and
views within the DDDr programmes played a key role both in the formulation and validation of the future recommendations within the project’s third phase, namely the FRAMEWORK.
FAST45 #3 Public Lecture Shift/Work: A Paragogics for Open Artistic Learning
25 March, 2022 Presented by Prof. Neil Mulholland
In his book, Re-imagining the Art School: Paragogy and Artistic Learning (London: Palgrave, 2009), Prof. Neil Mulholland proposes innovative methods to redefine the art academy. Developing critical case studies of open source and peer-to-peer
methods, he asks what happens when artistic learners deliberately engage with emerging educational practices such as the open paradigm (Winn 2015), paragogy (Corneli 2011, 2016) and para-academia (Wardrop 2014)?
This lecture explored new visions and 'paratechnic' methods to build and imagine the art school of 2045 and was followed by a Q&A session.
FAST Forward Webinar #1: The Art School in 2045 A presentation & discussion of FAST45 research findings
10 March 2022 Hosted by LUCA School of Arts
The FAST Forward Webinar Series aimed to connect and engage students, colleagues, and other stakeholders from higher arts education, in a virtual space of futures exploration. These online community building events summarised and discussed
the results and outcomes developed so far through FAST45 project research. Participants in each FAST Forward webinar joined a conversation framed by a panel of futures thinking experts. Together we will co-create, exchange and
explore the challenges of the future.
FAST45 #2 Public Lecture The History of the Future of the Learning Platform
25 February 2022
How do the stories we tell about the history and the future of education (and education technology) shape our beliefs about teaching and learning -- the beliefs of educators, as well as those of the general public? This talk explored
the long history of “personalized learning” — visions for an automated future of education that are almost one hundred years old. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. View the recording>
In ‘play’ lies great power – the power to motivate, to irritate, to generate laughter and to transfer knowledge. The past two years have not been fun. We have sat in front of screens for hours, tried to have genuine conversations as
opposed to abrupt exchanges on WhatsApp or other social media platforms. However, as artists and thinkers this is time which has pushed many of us to come up with creative solutions which enable meaningful collaboration, learning
interrogation and experimentation. As part of ELIA Future Arts series we presented ‘Playgrounds in Education’. Over two days, participants experienced all the innovative, surprising and mischievous elements of play for yourself.
We delved into the application of gamification in teaching, toy with roleplay, and share the theories and philosophies behind high-end game design. Let’s (re)play to learn, and (re)learn to play.
FAST45 is a pan-European research project which aims to create and test new methodologies, envisage future scenarios, establish long-term international collaboration and develop tools and initiatives which will empower arts institutions
not only to anticipate an unknown future but to actively shape it. Involving arts educators, researchers, students, and business professionals working across artistic disciplines and leaping sectoral boundaries, FAST45 seeks to
analyse, map, and predict the arts education landscape for 2045. Meet the FAST45 partners and hear what the future could hold.
Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates (and beyond)
21 – 22 October 2021
From 21 to 22 October the Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates (and beyond) took the central stage, featuring presentations of project findings and outputs
and highlighting the key issues in supervision for artistic research doctorates. An active debate with representative from different fields and disciplines was encouraged. Organised by Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
ELIA Future Arts
The Magic of Creative Technology in Education
5 October 2021
In this second Future Arts session the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht took us on a journey through their state of the art Creative Technology workshops, called the Blackbox.
HKU has four Blackbox workshops in different campus locations, each equipped with tools, techniques and knowledge related to art, creativity and performance. Technologies include: Projection Mapping, Chromascreen, Motion Capture,
a variety of smaller Sensors, Virtual Reality and Theatre Lighting. In this workshop the magic happens and artists get to shape their own mixed reality.
Student-driven conversations about the New European Bauhaus, Third Conversation
6 July 2021
The third conversation of Agents of Transformation was held on Tuesday 6 July 2021 from 10:00 – 11:00 CEST when students presented and discussed their ideas, in direct conversation with European Commissioner for Innovation, Research,
Culture, Education, and Youth Mariya Gabriel. The third conversation was open event. Students from higher arts education institutions were especially invited to take part and engage in an active conversation.
ELIA Future Arts: Towards a Virtual University of the Arts
29 - 30 June 2021
Announcing the first episode of the experimental series ELIA Future Arts: Towards a Virtual University of the Arts. A Virtual Reality conference led by TU Dublin, which took place
on 29 and 30 June using Spatial i.o.. Emerging out of the MA Art and Environment and building on the diverse range of Virtual Reality education and experimentation in TU Dublin this unique research process will connect with other
European Universities around the critical questions, creative possibilities and institutional challenges of Virtual Reality education. This enquiry has been extended throughout 2021/22 through the EU Culture Lab.
ELIA Members were invited to join the General Assembly, held on 17 June at 16:00 - 17:30 CEST. .Take time out from your busy schedule to recharge and be inspired. Look back on a challenging year with international peers, before going
on well-deserved summer break. Bring your favourite drink and make a toast to new adventures. We’ll make sure the atmosphere is sunny and warm with that fuzzy ELIA feeling of togetherness by the campfire.
In advance of the World Environment Day, ELIA together with students and teachers from St. Joost School of Art & Design prepared the next ‘How to’ session, focusing on the importance of developing transdisciplinary programmes which
advocate for ecological sustainability. Attendees heard real world case-study examples from higher arts education institutions and external partners who came to together with the aim of creating an eco-centric paradigm, that will
tackle the environmental crisis and encourage the green shift.
Student-driven conversations about the New European Bauhaus, Second Conversation
28 May 2021
The second episode will be held on Friday 28 May at 14:00 – 15:00 CEST, bringing together arts students and representatives of European Commission’s Joint Research Centre initiator of the New European Bauhaus to discuss questions regarding
the sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetics. The students presented their visions for a sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetic future and set the agenda for their input to the New European Bauhaus initiative.
In 2021 ELIA presented a new series of online events encouraging practical and hands-on approaches, knowledge and experience sharing in an informative online environment. This first ELIA ‘How to’ session focued on how universities
and academies in the arts are preparing to go back to school, after this long period of limitations and isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Together with ELIA member Guildhall School we explored how they are preparing for the
next academic year and what their experience was with hybrid learning and teaching.
In the spirit of the New European Bauhaus, the NEBC conference was designed as a participatory and multidisciplinary event, enabling people from various backgrounds to meet and exchange ideas. It aimed to take stock on the development
of the NEB initiative, contribute to and consider trends emerging from the co-design phase and contribute to the ideation phase of the initiative. The event brought together European citizens (especially the young generation);
professionals and workers from various areas; educators and researchers; representatives from public authorities and everyone interested.
Student-driven conversations about the New European Bauhaus
28 April 2021
We, ELIA and the Berlin University of the Arts, set the stage for our students to make their voices heard. We are initiating a pan-European, interdisciplinary dialogue about the role and responsibilities of Higher Education in Art
and Design and the field’s contribution to envisioned systematic change. With this in mind, we are organising a series of interactive digital events to outline a dynamic blueprint for the requirements of a responsible and sustainable
educational practice within art and design. Our conversations will involve students of higher arts education institutions that are keen to contribute to the NEB initiative.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted health practices, the global economy, and the way we live. The arts in higher education have been severely affected, with institutions around the world slowly reopening for autumn 2020 and planning
being developed for new ways to teach and learn. How can educational institutions and the arts work together to protect the health and safety, economy, and privacy of those they serve?
Managing Health & Wellbeing during a Global Pandemic
7 May 2020
This online session focused on how to best deal with the concerns of students and staff during the period of uncertainty. What new processes can educators put in place to ensure the healthy continuation of teaching and learning?
Re-imagining Higher Arts Education Online (Part Two)
30 April 2020
This webinar featured presentations and case studies from arts institutions in Hong Kong, UK and Switzerland, looking at the practical transition from campus to online teaching and learning.
Re-imagining Higher Arts Education Online (Part One)
3 April 2020
Guest speaker Dimitrios Vlachopoulos explored the various implications of a speedy transition to teaching and learning online and looked at practical ways arts educators are improving their practice.
During this event, leaders, academics, artists, professionals and intellectuals from European and international higher arts institutions came together to actively discuss and analyse the models that have been developed, in France and
Europe in the last two decades.
During the half-day programme we were able to get the insights and have meaningful discussions on the future of internationalisation in a Europe where the politics of Brexit have become a fact, addressing the topics of access to EU
funding programs, student mobility and fees, and future collaborations.
The conference provoked new ways of thinking and observing the actual cultural, societal, political and economical processes, and provided a space for thinking in potentialities through a multidisciplinary view: the possible focused
on catalyzing urban change, the profitable conducted an analysis of a reloaded economic value system, the sensible explored an antifragile society, the desirable discussed architectures of meaning.
