A Special Sejm Subcommittee on the establishment an Academy of Art in Szczecin has supported a draft bill which is to regulate the establishment of the Academy.

What is more,the Subcommitteedecided that there is no legal basis which would not allow the establishment of the Academy of Art in Szczecin.

Next Tuesday, the 2nd of March, joint Committee of Culture and Mass Media and Committee of Education of Youth and Higher Education will be on the draft bill, which today has been supported by the Special Sejm Subcommittee on the establishment of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. If members of the unified Committees vote in favour of the draft bill, it will reach the second reading.

Szczecin has been trying to establish an independent State artistic academy of higher education for over 30 years. Talented young people, in order to develop artistic skills, have had to go to other higher-education institutions. What is more, they rarely decide to come back to their home town, which limited the creation of the cultural heritage of Szczecin.  

Each year 470 students study art in four higher-education institutions in Szczecin.  The idea of the Academy is to bring them together into one place, create new majors and specialisations resulting from its interdisciplinary nature and possibilities of engaging international staff interested in cooperation, and, what is the most important, to increase the number of students. Within the space of the next few years, the Academy in Szczecin may educate over 800 students per year in over 10 majors in different fields of art (music, fine arts, theatre), some of unique and multimedia character, and, as a  result, it may become an exceptional didactic centre, not only on a national level. 

Present figures - 41 independent research workers and 27 PhDs - make these plans more realistic and feasible. The Academy will fulfil staff requirements from the first year, which is necessary for conferring the title of PhD in Art in two fields – in plastic arts in the discipline of fine arts; and in musical arts in the discipline of conducting.