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    The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava is an autonomous public institution performing creative, artistic, educational, scientific, research, development, and cultural activities. Educational activities are based on contemporary art, scientific knowledge, and technical background for various artistic activities. The educational activities of AFAD are in close connection with the artistic creation and research activities of the AFAD pedagogues, research employees, and students, who are in simple touch with recent developments in this area. AFAD contributes significantly to art, artistic and technological research, art literacy, and culture.
    The Academy of Fine Arts and Design is an artistic, educational institution with a strong position and great prestige among other Slovak universities and faculties focused on art. A great deal of its performance is focused on artistic and scientific-research activities and emerging international cooperation within the European education, art, and research area.
    The Academy of Fine Arts and Design is one of the biggest and oldest Slovak institutions offering university education in various study programs focused on art. In more than six decades of its existence, the Academy has established itself as an institution with a strong position among art schools in the Central European region. At the same time, it is continually strengthening its position within the European Union. Even though AFAD was confronted with numerous changes during its existence, including various ideological pressures, it has always remained committed to its progressive nature. Especially in the last twenty years, it has maintained its position as a prominent institution of higher education, focusing on fine arts.
    The mission of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava is to enhance education in accredited study programs, strengthen creative and critical thinking, support independent artistic and scientific research and artistic creation, and encourage the creative spirit of human society adhering to humanistic values. The mission of AFAD does not only draw on social utility and public interest but also on the belief that just like science helps to learn about the structured nature of the world, art can embrace this knowledge in its way – throughout genesis, existence, and mental wealth of a human being - and to introduce it in the form of art performances and works of art.
    The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava is a public academy. Besides education at all three levels of university study (bachelor, master, and doctoral levels) in study programs Fine Arts, Design, Architecture, Restoration and at the doctoral level in study program Theory and History of Art and Architecture, it also offers a whole range of other educational activities of additional education. AFAD is not structured into faculties, but directly into twelve Departments and a Division of Drawing. This organizational structure enables the Academy to be a flexible and open educational institution and create an interdisciplinary educational environment.
    The study at AFAD is structured following the Bologna declaration, whereas its organization and evidence are based on the credit system, as provided by law. The Bologna declaration's implementation has caused splitting the then 6-year master level study program into two levels: 4-year bachelor and 2-year master study program. A new level of study program has been opened (Doctoral level), which had to be implemented from scratch, as there was no tradition of such level at art schools in this region. Results in the essential areas of artistic and scientific-research activities of the Academy, as well as in academic project activities, determine its further development and are directly linked to its profiling, competencies, and professional level in university education.
    The primary strategic objective of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava is defined in the long-term plan for the years 2012 – 2018. As stated in the document, AFAD aims to improve and develop educational, artistic, and research activities and accomplish its cultural and humanizing mission. Further development of the Academy anticipates its complex readiness to answer new quality criteria of the educational process and increasing demands on the level of the outcomes of the artistic and research activities. Another requirement is the Academy's ability to perceive variable conditions in social development, react to these changes, take into account the results of these processes, critically evaluate processes in social-cultural life, and adopt relevant attitudes.

    Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava
    Founding year: 1949
    Website: Visit Website
    Number of students: 0
    Genders Accepted: Mixed (Co-education)
    Leadership: Stanislav Stankoci (Rector)
    Number of staff: 0
    Type: Universities
    Address: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Hviezdoslavovo námestie 175/18, Staré Mesto, 814 37, Singapore



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