Overview

Estonian Academy of Arts collaborates with more than a 100 partner universities in the world. While most partners are located in Europe, we also have active collaboration with partners in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Thailand, Kenya, China, Japan etc.

67% of our alumni have studied or conducted a traineeship abroad, participating in short- and long term mobility programmes and each year we host roughly 100 incoming exchange students. EKA takes actively part in ERASMUS+ and ERASMUS+ International Credit Mobility programmes. EKA’s outgoing student mobility is of the highest ratio among public universities in Estonia. Outgoing and incoming student mobility has been in good balance. Feedback from incoming exchange students shows that the EAA is highly valued for it’s small study groups and individual approach by highly professional academic tutors.

Internationalisation is important part of EKA Development Plan 2021 – 2025. EKA closely monitors and follows the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps Inclusion and Diversity Strategy .

We belong: 

EKA’s rector Prof Mart Kalm is a member of the board in ELIA association,  Vice Rector Anne Pikkov is a member of the board in CUMULUS, Prof Kirke Kangro, the dean of Faculty of Fine Arts is the Chair of KUNO network, and dean of Faculty of Design, Ruth-Helene Melioranski in CIRRUS network.

Between 2014 – 2023 the EKA also hosts the secretariat of Nordic design education collaboration network CIRRUS. EKA is also an active member in CUMULUS, leading a Fashion and Design working group of the association, ELIA, EAAE, European Alliance of Academies, KUNO and other smaller international speciality networks and associations.

As of 2020, EKA participates in Transform4Europe European Universities initiative. The partners of the initiative are Saarland University (Germany), The University of Alicante (Spain), Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonia), The University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria), The University of Trieste (Italy), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania).

If your institution is interested in establishing a collaboration agreement with Estonian Academy of Arts, you are welcome to turn to the International Office.

International programmes for full time studies are available at both, BA and MA level. PhD programmes are international. Students wishing to study at the EKA through exchange programmes can find information here.

Our partner universities are: