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Profiles: Hungary
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Cultural and Arts Management Programme
Kecskeméti u. 10-12
Budapest 1053
Hungary
Director: István Klinghammer, PhD.
Phone: + 36 1 317 49 84
Fax: + 36 1 317 85 21
E-mail: bujdoso@ludens.elte.hu
Web site: www.indi-go.elte.hu/kultman
Background, orientation and purpose
The impetus to launch the programme grew out of a conference in Vienna in 1991. At this conference,
the Institut für Kulturelles Management offered their Programme. among other western models, to
former socialist countries attending the conference. The Programme started as a 12-unit course in
May 1992. Since 1993, ELTE has also offered a postgraduate cultural and arts management
programme.
The course’s main aim is to provide up-to-date professional and practical skills for those wishing to
work or already working in a cultural sector (educational, public-collection and art institutions; cultural
businesses; local authorities).
Programme(s) and qualification(s)
Cultural and Arts Management Programme.
Certificate of Cultural Manager (postgraduate).
Educational and Training programmes in the EU (with the help of the Tempus foundation).
Duration
Cultural and Arts Management Programme - 2 years.
Certificate of Cultural Manager (postgraduate) - 1 year.
Content
The Cultural and Arts Management Programme and Certificate of Cultural Managers cover the same
Programme, but the graduate course is for full-time university students who follow the programme as
their main subject. The post-graduate course lasts one year and only people who already have a
degree can enter the course.
The programme includes the following subjects: economic, legal and financial aspects of the non-profit
sector; comparative public policy; cultural marketing; practical arts management; theory of culture
and communication; public relations in the arts; the theory and practice of sponsorship in today's
Hungary; heritage management (in English); reform of the system of cultural institutions; education
and training programmes in the EU.
International/European dimension
Some of the courses are given by foreign lecturers who specialise in different European and American
cultural issues. The institution is a member of ENCATC.
Evaluation and assessment
Student performance is evaluated through a final paper/thesis.
Lecturers
Lecturers include economists, artists, institution leaders, university professors, lawyers, art theorists,
journalists and entrepreneurs. The number of teaching personnel is 25, six of whom are women. Two
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