Training in cultural policy and management: international ... - Encatc

Profiles: Austria
University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna
IKM- Institute of Culture Management
Karlsplatz 2/9
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
Director: Prof. Dr Werner Hasitschka
Phone: +43 1 505 20 61/+43 1 505 30 75
Fax: +43 1 505 20 61/18 /+43 1 505 30 75/18
E-mail: ikm@mdw.ac.at
Web site: www. mdw.ac.at/ikm
Background, orientation and purpose
IKM, established in 1976, is the only university institute in Austria where research and teaching in
cultural management and the cultural sciences are combined with an interdisciplinary approach
(involving the humanities, the social sciences and economics) and where consistently close links are
maintained with professional practitioners. The principal fields of research encompass: the macro area
(e.g. evaluation of cultural policies, the economics of culture, financing models); the micro area (e.g.
marketing for culture industries, organisation of cultural projects, sponsorships, analysis of the legal
environment etc.); and the cultural sciences, such as cultural theory, cinematography, gender
research, philosophy of art. With reference to training for culture management, IKM regards culture
managers as practitioners who operate at the interface between culture and management, as experts
in, and intermediaries between, different spheres of life. They are recognisable by high cognitive,
communicative and social skills.
Programme(s) and qualification(s)
Cultural Management, postgraduate course of studies.
Cultural Management within a general study of the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna
and other universities (2 terms).
Duration
Cultural Management, postgraduate course of studies - 2 years (4 terms).
Cultural Management within a general study of the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna
and other universities - 2 terms.
Content
Cultural Management, postgraduate course of studies:
The ‘Cultural Management’ postgraduate programme is intended to impart specialised skills for
management tasks in the field of culture. At the core of the didactic concept is the consistent effort to
see culture and management as one, and to focus on specific aspects of cultural management and
cultural management studies. The principal feature of the programme is its interdisciplinary academic
as well as its practical approach.
International/European dimension
IKM is a member of ERICARTS (The European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and
the Arts).
Evaluation and assessment
Student performance is evaluated through examinations, papers, final paper/thesis and practical
work/internship.
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