The mission of the Academy of Music in Kraków – from the beginning of its existence (i.e. for over 120 years) – has been the education of musicians – humanists in a broad context of musical culture and art, following the motto: per academia ad Astra, through, teaching musical craftsmanship in a master-student relation versatile development of gifts and talents teaching sensitivity to beauty, where tradition meets the contemporary, datum meets novum, the past meets the present opening to various forms of cultural activity, including culture formation development of artistic taste and of the ability to evaluate cultural phenomena.
The Academy of Music in Kraków is one of the oldest music higher education units in Poland and Europe. It was founded as a Conservatory by the Music Society in Kraków – an organization that came into being owing to the efforts of Duchess Marcelina Czartoryska and Władysław Żeleński in February 1888.
The Academy of Music in Krakow has carried out various forms of international cooperation for many years. This involvement is reflected by its membership in two important international organizations of music higher education institutions: The European Association of Conservatoires (AEC) http://www.aecinfo.org/ and the Association of Baltic Academies of Music.
The main aspect of the international cooperation is our participation in the EU Programme – Erasmus+ the Academy has signed bilateral agreements with institutions of music higher education in EU member countries and candidate countries which allow students, teachers and administrative staff to get into an exchange www.erasmusplus.org.pl
The Academy of Music has also signed bilateral agreements with institutions of music higher education in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Tbilisi.
