As a university-sector specialist art, design and media higher education institution that’s big on collaboration, partnership working and interdisciplinary practice, we recognise that the creative industries are now firmly an international job market, and we know the importance of connecting with creative practitioners, institutions and businesses across the globe.
Working with our strategic partners across Europe, North America, India, China, Korea and beyond, our cultural exchanges and international projects have a significant impact on our students – improving their employment prospects, bringing international practitioners and projects into the university, creating a rich and vibrant international culture and helping to influence the way we teach.
Our students work with students from across Europe for the Euranim project.
Our expertise in creative education has a particular emphasis on physical making and teaching how traditional studio and craft practices are evolving to address an increasingly digital and connected world. As leaders in courses that teach craft and material practices more broadly, our international Making Futures biennial conference embodies our commitment to honouring and furthering the importance of tacit learning through hands-on making.
As an innovative institution, the university has been a Founding Associate of Tate Exchange, and is a member of the UKADIA, ELIA, CAA and Cumulus groups of specialist higher education institutions, a member of the Crafts Council Advisory Group, and a Steering Group member of the Cultural Learning Alliance. Invitations to many of these groups came in the past five years, creating platforms for the university to steer national and international policies in the arts and creative education.
As the result of a growing national and international profile, the university is engaged in multiple partnerships with a number of European-funded projects, including Atlantic Youth Creative Hub - a social innovation project for young people supporting social entrepreneurship, employment and education in the creative and cultural industries (12 delivery partners across 4 Atlantic Countries); Triple E-dge - vocational education in a digital and gaming environment through enhancing four key skills related to enterprising, employability and entrepreneurship (5 partners from 4 European countries), alongside other international partnerships such as Smithsonian Crafts Council, Victoria and Albert Research Institute, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Fuller Craft Museum, and FutureLab at West Bund Art Center Shanghai. A developing relationship with the British Council has in the last year seen the university working on significant projects in India, Myanmar and the South Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).
Arts University Plymouth staff with student weavers in Myanmar
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Hungary | www.mome.hu
Subjects: Animation, Ceramic Design, Glass Design, Graphic Design, Industrial and Product Design, Media Design, Metalwork and Jewellery Design, Photography and Textile Design.
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges.
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Language of instruction: English
Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón, Zaragoza Spain | www.esda.es
Subjects: Graphic Design, Interior Design and Product Design.
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges.
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Language of instruction: Spanish Level B1
Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain |www.escolamassana.es
Subjects: Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Modeling, Interior Design Project Management, Artistic Jewellery, Textile Art and Mural Art.
Deadlines for both Autumn and Spring term exchanges is 31 May.
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Language of instruction: Catalan, Spanish Level B1*
(*) There is no specific language level required, but students must have the necessary level to be able to attend lessons and sit exams.
Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain |www.umh.es
Subjects: Audiovisual Communications and Fine Art.
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 1 Nov for Spring exchanges.
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Language of instruction: Spanish A2, English
* See the full list of subjects taught in English (updated yearly).
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau, Berlin, Germany | www.hs-anhalt.com
Subjects: Product Design 3D, Communication Design 2D and Time-based Media 4D.
Deadline for applications: 31 March for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges.
Language of instruction: German, English
Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus | www.frederick.ac.cy
Subjects: Areas: Graphic and Advertising Design, Interior Design and Fashion Design and Image.
Deadline for applications: 30 June for Autumn exchanges / 30 Nov for Spring exchanges
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Language of instruction: English
Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Médias Caen/Cherbourg, France | www.esam-c2.fr/
Subjects: Graphic Design, Fine Arts and Media Arts.
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges.
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Language of instruction: French
Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík | http://english.lhi.is/
Subjects: Fashion Design, Fine Art, Product Design and Visual Communication.
Deadline for applications: 15 April for Autumn exchanges / 15 Oct for Spring exchanges.
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Language of instruction: English
Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn, Estonia | www.artun.ee
Subjects: Animation, Ceramics, Fashion Design, Glass Art, Graphic Art, Graphic Design, Installation and Sculpture, Interior Architecture, and Jewellery and Blacksmithing.
Deadline for applications: 1 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Oct for Spring exchanges.
Language of instruction: English, Estonian
L’Ecole design Nantes Atlantique, France | en.lecolededesign.com
Subjects: Industrial Products, Brand Design, and Retail and Interior Design.
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges.
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Language of instruction: English
E.S.A Saint-Luc, Liege, Belgium | www.saint-luc.be
A choice of ten courses: - six short courses or "bachelor": comics, illustration, painting, photography, advertising and sculpture.
Deadline for applications: 30 June for Autumn exchanges / 30 Nov for Spring exchanges
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Language of instruction: French
National Academy of Art, Sofia | www.nha.bg/en
Deadline for applications: 30 June for Autumn exchanges / 30 Nov for Spring exchanges.
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Language of instruction: Bulgarian, English
Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts, Montpellier | www.esbama.fr
Subjects: Fine Art
Deadline for applications: 30 June for Autumn exchanges / 30 Nov for Spring exchanges.
Language of instruction: French, English
Nord University, Bodo | www.nord.no/en
Subjects: 3D art, Animation and VFX, Games and Entertainment Technology, and Film and TV Production.
Deadline for applications: 01 April for Autumn exchanges / 15 October for Spring exchanges.
Language of instruction: English
Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid | esdmadridcampus.org
Subjects: Graphic, Fashion, and Interior and Product Design.
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges.
Language of instruction: Spanish, English
AFAD Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia | www.vsvu.sk/en/
Subjects: Architecture; Photography and New Media; Printmaking and Other Media; Intermedia; Painting; Design (Art Design, Industrial Design, Transport Design); Conservation and Restoration; Sculpture, Object, Installation; Theory and History of Art; Textiles (Fashion Design, Fibre Art, Textile Design); Applied Art (Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery); Visual Communication.
Deadline for applications: 31 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges.
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Turku University of Applied Science (TUAS), Finland | www.tuas.fi/en/
Subjects: Film and Media: Advertising and Media Management, Animation and Film Studies, Journalism - only in spring (1.1. -31.5.) Fine Arts: Fine Arts, Photography
Deadline for applications: 01 May for Autumn exchanges
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Language of instruction: English
HELMo - Haute Ecole Libre Mosane, Belgium | www.helmo.be/
Subjects: Bachelier en textile - techniques de mode
Deadline for applications: 01 June for Autumn exchanges / 01 Dec for Spring exchanges
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Language of instruction: French
h_da - Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany | ag.mediencampus.h-da.de/
Subjects: Graphic Design / Photography / Industrial Design
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges
Language of instruction: German, English
TAI Madrid, Spain | www.escuela-tai.com/en/
Subjects: Bachelor Programs in Photography, Film and Fine Art
Deadline for applications: 30 Apr for Autumn exchanges / 30 Sept for Spring exchanges
Language of instruction: Spanish
Design School, Kolding, Denmark | www.designskolenkolding.dk/en/
Subjects: The design programmes at Design School Kolding are higher education programmes at Bachelor’s and Master’s level. The school trains professional designers in communications, fashion, industrial design, textiles and accessories design.
Deadline for applications: 01 May for Autumn exchanges / 01 Oct for Spring exchanges
Language of instruction: Danish, English
Ecole Europeenne Superieure d'Art de Bretagne Site de Quimper, France | www.eesab.fr
Subjects: Fine Art
Deadline for applications: 15 May for Autumn exchanges / 15 Nov for Spring exchanges
Language of instruction: French
Escuela de Arte y superior de Diseno Gran Canaria, Spain | www.eagrancanaria.org
Subjects: Graphic Design / Fashion Design / Interior Design
Deadline for applications: 30 June for Autumn exchanges / 16 Nov for Spring exchanges
Language of instruction: Spanish, English