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Higher arts and cultural education  Following the signing of the Bologna Declaration, the Parliament passed Law no. 9741 on Higher Education in May 2007 and amended it with Law nr. 9832 six months later. Nevertheless, the implementation of the Bologna Declaration turned out to be a hard task, especially with regard to higher arts education. The amendment suggested the creation of a two-level system for master's degrees, namely the scientific masters and professional masters, each obtainable after a full academic year.  Finally, in 2010, the Law on Higher Education was amended again, with the Law nr.10307, sanctioning that all four-year university... read more →

Education  The fields of study commonly regarded as cultural education in Albania are Arts, Humanities and Languages, Journalism and Information, and Architecture and Construction. In the academic year 2020-2167,  17,954 post- secondary students were enrolled in fields of study related to culture, marking 14.5% of the total, with a slight decrease from the previous academic year. For 2020-2021, Languages and Architecture and Construction are the most preferred fields of study representing 39.9% and 29.4% of the total number of students enrolled in fields related to culture. Specialisations within the field of cultural education include tourism, culture, languages, heritage, music, film/tv, dance, fine arts,... read more →

Arts in schools  Since 2009, arts are considered one of the nine areas of high school education, with the other eight being sports, foreign languages, the Albanian language and literature, mathematics, technology, natural sciences, social sciences and training for life and careers. High school students must make their choice of two subjects out of a total of six comprising: music, dance, theatre, visual arts, history of art and history of world art. Before graduation, each student must have taken at least 105 hours of arts lessons.  Arts have their share also in the part of the curricula based on student's choice. Those who wish... read more →

Policy and institutional overview  Following the signing of the Bologna Declaration, the Parliament passed Law Nr. 9741 on Higher Education in May 2007 and amended it with Law Nr. 9832 in 2010; the Law on Higher Education was amended again, with Law Nr. 10307, sanctioning that all four-year university diplomas issued up to 2009 would, by default, be re-evaluated into scientific master's degrees. Those interested could apply for a one-year programme to obtain a professional master's degree, while universities would continue to offer three-year bachelors and two-year masters programmes for all students admitted from 2009.  The Ministry of Culture launched in 2014 the programme "Education through Culture" when the first educational projects were... read more →

Policies and programmes    The National Plan for European Integration 2015-2020177, Chapter 26 on Culture and Education,  is relevant to this chapter.  Since 2018, the Ministry of Culture is the National Coordinator of the Europe for Citizens Programme, starting with the training of independent operators to apply for the components: Civil Society Projects, Urban Twinning and Networking of Cities. The Ministry, through the EU IPA programme, has become part of several projects, which are implemented by the Ministry departments, as well as by subordinate institutions in partnership with regional and international organizations. 

Trends and figures in cultural participation  Table 3: People who participated in or attended a certain cultural activity during the last 12 months in Albania (in % of the population, over 3 available years)  Year 1 2018Year 2 2019Year 3 2020Activities heavily subsidised by the statetotal / (%) Theatre National Theatre National Experimental Theatre National Theatre of Opera, Ballet and Ensemble National Centre for Children’s Culture National Circus 39503 (1.38%) 65989 (2.3%) 54438(1.9%)  34968 (1.2%) 22051 (0.77%)  34790 (1.2%) 64684 (2.25%) 70674 (2.46%) 31795 (1.1%) 21698 (0.75%) 5252 (0.18%)  16044 (0.56%)  7476 (0.26%) 6274 (0.22%) 3286 (0.11%Open PerformancesZarzuelaArchaeology Parks (9 state) 424,860 (14.8%)78,552 (2.7%)DanceConcerts of classic music Libraries (1)82,414 132,462 30,002 Museums (2)317,826 (11.1%) 49,288 (1.7%) Monuments and Castles (7) 322,395 (11.2%) 62,627 (2.2%)  Monuments and Castles (7) Cultural centres  National Art Gallery 19,776 16,473  2,645 Sources for the... read more →

Support to professional artists’  National Center of Mediterranean Theatre https://butrinti2000.com/2016/04/29/the-national-center-mediterranean-theatre/ National Experimental Theatre https://www.facebook.com/tkeksperimental/ Metropol Theatre & Culture Centre Tirana http://teatrimetropol.al/ Albanian Dance Theatre Company https://www.dancealbfest.com/sponsor.htm EDS Foundation https://www.eds-foundation.org/en/about-us/history/ Association “Culture, Media, Arts” http://operafestalbania.com/association-culture-media-arts 

Grants, awards, scholarships  For more information see:  Western Balkan Fund http://westernbalkansfund.org/ European Funding Instruments/ Interreg- IPA, CBC https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/ Creative Europe for Culture and Media https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/about_en Marubi Film and MultiMedia Academy https://afmm.edu.al/ Erasmus+, K2 https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about_en Erasmus 2020 https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020  UNDP Albania https://www.al.undp.org/ Albanian American Foundation http://aadf.org/  USAID Albania https://www.usaid.gov/albania  Open Doors NGO http://www.opendoors-albania.org/  Tirana Art Lab  http://www.tiranaartlab.org/en  ArtKontakt NGO http://www.artkontakt.al/en/  Argjiro NGO https://argjiro.org/  Gjirokastra Foundation https://www.gjirokastra.org/gjirokastra-foundation/?page_id=2249  APR- Parks and Recreation Agency https://aprtirana.al/rreth-nesh/   Anna Lindh Foundation https://www.annalindhfoundation.org  UNESCO International Fund for Culture Diversity https://en.unesco.org/creativity/ifcd  Alliance Française de Tirana https://www.facebook.com/AleancaFrancezeETiranes/ 

Artist’s funds  For more information see:   Ministry of Culture http://kultura.gov.al   National Opera and Ballet, Folk Ensemble http://tkob.gov.al/?lang=en  Leviz Albania Swiss Cultural Fund https://levizalbania.al/en  https://swissculturalfund.al/mission/ Italian Institute of Culture in Albania https://iictirana.esteri.it/iic_tirana/it/   German Cooperation https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/294.html  Swiss Cooperation https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/albania/en/home/international-cooperation/strategy.html  Goethe Institut https://www.goethe.al/sq/  British Council Albania https://www.britishcouncil.al/en  Institut Français https://www.institutfrancais.com/en 

Strategies, programmes and other forms of support  Albania has participated in the “Culture programme 2000 – 2006”, “Culture programme 2007-2013”, and “Creative Europe 2014-2020”.  The Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) to the EU replaced a series of European Union programmes and financial instruments for candidate countries or potential candidate countries, namely PHARE, PHARE CBC, ISPA, SAPARD, and CARDS192, funding various cross-border themes, the environment, tourism, culture heritage, accessibility, etc.  IPA I (2007- 2013) included the Greece-Albania IPA Cross-border Co-operation Programme 2007-2013 (The total budget of the Programme for the period 2007-2011 was approximately € 18.8 million, with Community assistance amounting to some €15 million. Community assistance was supplemented by about € 3.8 million of national funding from the two participating countries) and the Adriatic IPA... read more →