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Orientation Days for First Year Students September | October 2025

Datum
Event Label
Orientation Days
Organisational Units
Student Service

The Orientation Days for first year students offer the opportunity to get to know all the services of the Academy for students, get all your questions answered and get to know students from other study programs!

The Student Welcome Center organises together with lots of services, departments, institutes colleagues and students of the Academy a diverse program. All details with exact dates of the study programs and studios are available in the PDF Program.

Welcome Meeting for first year students with Q&A session
Tuesday, September 30 2025, 09:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Schillerplatz 3, ground floor, room EA1, Sitzungssaal

Welcome, study information, scholarships, internatitional issues
Ingeborg Erhart, Vice-rector Art | Teaching
Christina Fasching, Student Welcome Center

Accessible studies
Christina Fasching, contact person for accessible studies

Representation of university students

Student Union (ÖH)

Psychological counselling for students
Martin Leupold, human resource development

Exchange and Mobility Programs for Academy students
Angelina Kratschanova, Simon Barranque, International Office

Short break

Equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices

Eleonora Ciani, Equal Opportunities Team (AfG)

Gender Queer Decolonial Studies

Ingrid Schacherl, Advancement of Women | Gender Studies | Diversity

Safe handling of chemicals
Katja Sterflinger, Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in Art (INTK)

Institutes of the Academy: topics, research fields, course offers
  • Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in Art (INTK, Katja Sterflinger)
  • Institute for Conservation-Restoration (IKR, Carolin Bohlmann, Monika Kammer)
  • Institute of Fine Arts (IBK, Philip Patkowitsch)
  • Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL, Martina Gaigg)
  • Institute for Art and Archtecture (IKA)
  • Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies (IKW)

Introduction to IT services and AkademieOnline, IT service (ZID)
Thursday, September 11th, 2025, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Online meeting, ZOOM:
https://akbild-ac-at.zoom.us/j/63247761288

Guided Tour Schillerplatz, Rogin Mougoui
Monday, October 6th, 2025, 11:00 a.m.
Schillerplatz, meeting point: entrance

Guided Tour Studio Building Lehárgasse, Rogin Mougoui
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025, 11:00 a.m.
Lehárgasse 8, meeting point: entrance door 1

Guided Tour „Care – between Tenderness and Resistance, Vice-rector Ingeborg Erhart
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Schillerplatz 3, 1. floor, Exhibit Gallery

Introduction „Accessible Studying—Offers, Advice, Support”
Christina Fasching, contact person accessible studies
Monday, October 13th, 2025, 4:00
–5:00 p.m.
Schillerplatz 3, Mezzanin, room M20

Guided Tour Paintings Gallery (Gemäldegalerie), Teresa Lukas (English)
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Schillerplatz, 1. floor, entrance paintings gallery

Introduction to the Library, Patrizia Wiesner-Ledermann (English)
Thursday, October 16th, 2025, 11:00–12:00 noon
Schillerplatz 3, Mezzanin, room M7, library entrance

Introduction to the Library, Patrizia Wiesner-Ledermann (German)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025, 11:00–12:00 noon
Schillerplatz 3, Mezzanin, room M7, library entrance

Guided Tour Sculpture Studios Kurzbauergasse
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Kurzbauergasse 9, meeting point: entrance

Guided Tour Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse
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Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, meeting point: entrance

For any question on the Orientation Days,
don’t hesitate to contact the Student Welcome Center:
studentwelcome@akbild.ac.at