From this year, the Academies and Conservatories will also have Ph.

For thefirst time from this year, students at Academies, Conservatories and Isia will be able to continue their studies with a PhD. The Ministry of University and Research has in fact authorized institutions of Higher Education in Art, Music and Dance to offer doctoral courses, for the moment only in associated form with universities, pending the definition of new rules for the accreditation of Afam doctoral courses. This is an important step toward the completion of the reform that in 1999 equated institutions of higher artistic, musical and coreutic education with universities, both of which are part of the Italian university system and authorized to issue degrees with legal value, with the difference, until now for Afam students, of not being able to access the third cycle of training, that is, PhDs.

TheFlorence Academy of Fine Arts is therefore participating for the first time together with five other Afam institutions (the Academies of Fine Arts of Catania, Macerata, Lecce and Rome, and Isia of Rome) in the National Doctorate in Cultural Heritage Sciences, offered in consortium with the University Tor Vergata (administrative headquarters of the doctorate), the telematic universities Uninettuno and E-Campus, New Vision University in Tbilisi, the University of Arts in Tirana, Ispra - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale and Ia Fondazione MAXXI.

The course has a duration of three years and aims to train scholars and professionals capable of carrying out research, management and design activities at public and private institutions, including international ones. It is a course with aninterdisciplinary approach, guaranteed by the co-presence of different institutions that bring different methodological approaches and experiences, but at the same time complementary. There are four curricula that delve into as many areas related to cultural heritage: from historical, artistic and archaeological studies to enhancement techniques.

A total of sixteen places are available, all covered by scholarships, two of which are fully funded by the Florence Academy of Fine Arts for the curriculum in £New media for the communication and enhancement of artistic heritage." Applications are open until September 7, 2022. Eligible for the National Doctoral Program in Cultural Heritage Sciences are students who have already earned or will earn a master’s degree or a Level II academic degree by the registration deadline.

“The extension of the Ph.D. to the Afam sector,” explains the Director of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Claudio Rocca, “is a historic and concrete step toward achieving full parity of Academies, Conservatories and Isia with Universities. In the twenty-three years that separate us from the reform of the system of High Artistic, Musical and Coreutic Education, unfinished because it has never received implementing decrees, Academies and Universities have never stopped collaborating by often proposing joint paths with the aim, among other things, of publicizing the value of artistic research and encouraging its full entry into the humanities.”

From this year, the Academies and Conservatories will also have Ph.

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