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An ongoing collaboration on decolonization, healing textile practices, and social justice in fashion and design with the University of Namibia and the University of Johannesburg.

For the first time, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF) and the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD) are recognizing outstanding examples of the implementation of the National Higher Education Mobility and Internationalization Strategy 2030. We warmly congratulate our colleagues fromthe International Office on their first-place finish in the category Measures promoting mobility for underrepresented student groups!

Students from the Teacher Training Program for Ethnic Diversity (PROETNOS/UEMA) took part in an international training experience at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria. 

The Blended Intensive Programme Mental Health in Higher Education in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, initiated and hosted by the International Office of the Academy, took place from June 23 to 27, 2025, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was a success. 

In May, the Academy of Fine Arts welcomed colleagues from the Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) in Yogyakarta for a return visit!

Since September 2024, UEMA in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, has been a new partner university of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as part of an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project.

In January 2025, as part of the Erasmus+ project International Credit Mobility, Michael Höpfner (Department of Photography) and Angelina Kratschanova (International Office), together with students from the Academy, visited Institut Seni in Yogyakarta. The students participated in a workshop on The Weight of Water, Time, Matter, Space in Indonesia and Europe and presented their artistic work.