Research

Great success for the Mozarteum University: The FWF (Austrian Science Fund) is funding the project ‘Aesthetic judgement in community’ by Iris Laner with 485,430 euros. The individual project is dedicated to the role of the community in art education theory, school practice and education policy and is being carried out in collaboration with partners from the universities in Cologne, Siegen, London and Pretoria.

Transforming climate-social futures: How do young people in Salzburg imagine the future? How do their knowledge about climate-social change, their interests and established ways of acting relate to their visions of the future? And how can art-based approaches help to create spaces for young people with different stories and concerns to come together, enabling them to design shared climate-social futures?

Together with children and young people, the inter- and transdisciplinary CreART Lab is being developed in collaboration with partners from the fields of art & culture, science & technology, education & outreach, and in cooperation with regional companies and networks. A mobile experimental space that, in the spirit of the guiding principle "Co-Creating Change!", is intended to inspire, motivate and support children and young people to (co-)create change.

Unqualified specialists for science, technology and art: There is a particularly large shortage of teachers in STEAM subjects. The qualification of unqualified and lateral entrants is a good way to close this gap in a timely manner. ProQ-STEAM investigates how early entry or transition into the teaching profession in science subjects, technology & design and art & design succeeds and how professional identity is formed.