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VSMU - Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Arts Management
Theatre Directing and Dramaturgy Chair - Subchair of Theatre Management
Venturska 3
Bratislava 813 01
Slovakia
Director: Prof. Milan Corba
Phone: +421 2 5930 1414/3556
Fax: +421 2 5443 0125
E-mail: unesco.chair@vsmu.sk / waradzinova@vsmu.sk
Web site: www.vsmu.sk
Background, orientation and purpose
Profiles: Slovakia
SLOVAKIA
The role of the UNESCO Chair, established in 2001, is to coordinate the development of research and
training in cultural policy and arts management at University level across all three faculties of the
VSMU (Faculty of Music and Dance, Faculty of Film and TV and Faculty of Drama and Puppetry), taking
into account the major changes that are occurring in the fields of arts and culture.
Short-term objectives are to:
provide specialised short term courses for students of the VSMU as well as interested practitioners; to
design a study programme focusing on policy and management in the fields of theatre, music, dance
and film;
share experience with other countries and professional sectors in specific areas;
promote the urgent need for the training of new professionals in the fields of cultural policy, arts and
culture;
simulate the application of new arts and cultural concepts in relevant societal conditions;
design teaching materials, training modules and efficient information systems;
establish cooperation with cultural managers in order to promote the development of an underlying
theoretical basis and improve study programmes rooted in praxis;
strengthen creative relations with arts and cultural institutions and organisations;
survey the current situation and ongoing change in cultural policy arts and the cultural environment;
and
develop international cooperation in culture management training within the NETCULT (UNESCO
Chairs) and ENCATC networks.
Long-term objectives are to:
strengthen theory and practice in arts and cultural policy and management;
describe identifiable differences within education, training, research and professional experience in the
arts and cultural policy and management;
secure interdisciplinary and integrated approaches in education, arts and cultural policy and
management training;
support cooperation among trainers, research and executive managers active in the arts and culture;
create a favourable environment for all institutions and professionals in the given field, with the aim of
exchanging experience and practical skills and encouraging international relations and cultural policy;
foster a practical orientation for artistic education;
gradually transform the UNESCO Chair into the Arts Development and Administration Centre;
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