Time: 2021 - 2022
Location: Hungaryan Fine Art University

Over the years, several workshops and round table discussions have been organized under the eu4art project. Long and short-term mobility programs have given students and teachers from Dresden, Riga, and Rome the opportunity to get to know the workings, spaces, and history of our university. Several of us have also participated in various programs at these universities. Personal presence was key in getting to know each other's pedagogical cultures and frameworks. The visiting sister universities were given an insight into the day-to-day functioning of our technical facilities and infrastructure. They were also given a comprehensive picture of the professionalism and effective professional assistance of our librarians, workshop, and studio teachers, who are available to our students at any time during their studies. The time spent together provided an opportunity for joint reflection, research, and the development of university methodology.

Short mobility programmes for teachers and academic staff brought 17 staff to Budapest. These included, for example, the visit of administrative staff from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in 2022 and the WP2 meeting in November 2021.

The WP2, the innovation research laboratory held a technical meeting at Budapest.

From the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Ádám Albert, Eszter Lázár, Gabriella Kiss, Anikó Bojtos, and Dániel Máté are participating in the WP2 group, Fine Arts Lab Establishment. In this working group, theoretical and practical research on artistic research is carried out, with the aim of providing a methodological framework for artistic research activities and to enrich the research and innovation portfolio of the four institutions. The aim is to produce a publication summarising the results at the end of the project. In addition, the intellectual property rules and practices of the EU4ART institutes were mapped, thus making recommendations to the EU4ART institutions on possible harmonisation of intellectual property rights.

By the end of the project, an innovation research laboratory will be established in each institution to support innovative activities in universities, to promote research collaboration and the socio-economic exploitation of scientific results. They will also aim to support the socio-economic and cultural exploitation of university education and research results.

They took part in the event series of the University’s 150th anniversary as well as the opening ceremony of the ‘Setting a model: pictorial constructions of the human body’ and the student-organized performance and exhibition ‘You gave me rain, Lord, but there are no thanks in it’.