European League of Institutes of the Arts

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European League of Institutes of the Arts
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Raison dEtre

• Information
• Platform
• Advocacy

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ELIAs Members

• Higher Arts Education institutions
• Cultural organisations and networks
• Other art related bodies

• Types of membership
• Full Member
• Associate Member
• Non-European Member

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ELIAs Structure
Member institutions
General Assembly Representation all members
Representative Board 8 - 21 members
(representation all)
Executive Group 5 - 9 members
Executive Office
Member institutions
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ELIAs Website
www.elia-artschools.org
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ELIAs Main Activities

• Biennial Conference
• Teachers Academy
• Leadership Symposium
• Research and Development projects

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Biennial Conference
Major international forum for debate and
exchange of ideas and best practice in higher
arts education
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Teachers Academy

• Contribute to professional staff
• development for
• professors
• teachers
• researchers
• in the higher arts education institutions in
• an international setting

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Leadership Symposium

• Engage senior level managers and decision-makers
  in key themes and current debates in cultural
  management and leadership in arts education
• Confront issues in ways that promote new
  perspectives, solutions and strategic alliances

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Current Research and Developnment (RD)

• interartes

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interartes

• More than 60 arts institutions
• from almost all EU, EEA, and candidate countries
• covering all art disciplines
• October 2004 October 2007
• IA partners mostly ELIA members
• Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy
  Warsaw
• is the co-ordinator of the IA Thematic network
• Chair Tomasz Kubikowski
• ELIA is lead partner

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• With a little Help from My Friends
• Living exercise
• Circle of professional critical friends
• Laboratory for innovation on OUR terms
• Panels of experts
• Mutual learning workshops

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4 thematic strands 4 working groups

• 1. Quality assurance/enhancement QA
• Strand leader - John Butler
• 2. Qualification frameworks (Tuning) QF
• Strand leader Kieran Corcoran
• 3. Tradition of the New TN
• Strand leader - Snejina Tankovska
• 4. Linking professional practice PP
• Strand leader - Maarten Regouin

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Strong Creative Disciplines in Europe Tallinn 27
29 April 2007

• Joint conference Architecture, Arts, Music
  thematic networks
• Promote and develop interdisciplinary best
  practice
• Influence European policy with a view to the
  Bologna process
• Identify new roles for institutions in the
  creative disciplines in the knowledge society
• Preparation Position Paper for Ministerial
  Bologna Conference, London May 2007

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www.inter-artes.org
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Research and Developnment (RD)

• Publications
• research in and through the arts
• New Practices, New Pedagogies

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Publications - research
Comparative Overview
Conference Report
The Research Interviews
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Publications
New Practices New Pedagogies
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www.artschools-europe.org

• Make a free personalised profile
• Promote your school
• Guide through higher arts education institutions
• Maintain your own profile
• Search according to country or discipline

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European League of Institutes of the Arts