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Zurich University of the Arts


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With around 2,800 students and 650 teaching staff, Zurich University of the Arts is one of the major universities of the arts in Europe. The study and research program covers design, film, fine arts, music, dance, theatre, transdisciplinary studies, and the teaching of arts and design. The university also has many venues for exhibitions and performances, where the results of the education provided can be shown in public. Zurich University of the Arts is part of the Zurich Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts (ZFH) and is a state university with its legal entity.
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) is a regionally anchored, internationally oriented provider of higher education and research. Our academic programs, leadership, and administration are fully committed to the highest standards and sustainability precepts. We endeavor to play a decisive role in shaping the practical and theoretical discourses within the arts, design, and education. Thus, we are actively involved in the renewal of the disciplines taught and researched at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). We place our work in the context of cultural, social, and economic responsibility. What we do is characterized by openness, critically-minded curiosity, respect, and critical self-reflection. We provide an outstanding experimental field for teaching and research. On a national level, we are committed to ensuring that arts universities are entitled to award doctoral degrees in their own right. We interrelate the disciplines represented at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and thereby create added value for teaching and research. We are committed to systematically extending cross-disciplinary cooperation with other universities and higher education institutions. Our self-conception rests on our status as an autonomous arts university. We receive public funding, in addition to which we raise private, third-party funding in order to fulfill our mission and performance contract successfully.
We have dedicated core teaching and research areas. Networked both within and beyond Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), these core areas have an assertive outreach. We are committed to the international state of the art and its further advancement. We offer graduate study leading to Bachelor's and Master's degrees and a wide range of continuing education and professional development programs. Our degree programs qualify students for professional careers in the arts and culture, in the creative industries, and in other business and society areas. We present our teaching and research results to a broader public in manifold ways, including public events, performances, concerts, exhibitions, and publications. In doing so, we showcase our staff and students' work and thus embrace the challenge of public debate. We host a wide range of performances, exhibitions, and other kinds of public presentation. Together with our affiliated Museum of Design and its collections, these different forms and formats play a significant role in the City and Canton of Zurich's cultural life.
We maintain active alliances with our national and international strategic partners. We maintain a continuous dialogue with our suppliers and with the exponents of the professional fields associated with the disciplines taught at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Our teaching faculty has excellent professional and interpersonal skills and actively brings its international experience in teaching and research. Teaching faculty is committed to nurturing and promoting individual students' development and conscious of its social responsibility. We systematically promote our non-professorial, midtier teaching staff, and support it in obtaining further qualifications under our commitment to nurturing talent. Our staff is qualified professionals who know the culture and workings of an internationally oriented arts university. They are fully dedicated to supporting teaching and research. We are an attractive employer about our fields of activity, networking, development opportunities, and financial framework.
Our students are talented and committed to performance. We enable our students to build specialist skills in their chosen disciplines and extend them by actively engaging with other disciplines. Our students assume responsibility for co-determining teaching and learning. Our student body is international.
Our leadership and organization support us in realizing our mission. The leadership skills necessary for realizing our mission exists on all levels of our organization. We are an equal opportunities employer. Our organizational culture wholly observes the imperatives of individual dignity and integrity through endorsing the principles of open communication, social responsibility, and participatory leadership. Adherence to these core principles ensures that all members of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) can contribute to shaping its future development.
Teaching at ZHdK is aligned with the demands facing our graduates in the cultural and creative industries. Our teaching anticipates possible developments in these industries and influences such developments. We equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively and sustainably shape their future professional fields. Our teaching approach is flexible and open-minded, thereby enabling swift responses to the changes and shifts occurring within a highly dynamic environment. Our teaching aspires to nothing less than excellence. Given the crucial importance of teaching, we develop our strategic aims closely associated with the principles guiding our teaching practice. Our further education programs are aimed at national and international specialists. Our programs are demand-driven. They are oriented toward the current state of knowledge and embrace the highest possible quality standards for teaching and research.
We will improve our organizational framework by further standardizing our administrative processes. We will develop a University-wide understanding of the collaborative partnership between our organizational units. Our administration will render the agreed services to ensure we fulfill our performance mandate in a useful, efficient, client- and solution-oriented manner. We are an organization fully committed to sustainability.


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