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Within recent years, the number of postgraduate courses in and out of the existing arts universities has increased, offering further education and professionalisation for example in cultural management, intercultural communication, intervention art, pictorial sciences, archiving, event management, and museum and exhibition management. Examples are: University of Applied Sciences Kufstein, Donau-Universität Krems, New Design University St. Pölten, Institute for Cultural Management and Cultural Science (IKM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna or Institut für Kulturkonzepte Wien.

Arts education is also provided on an institutional basis ‘outside of school hours’ by music schools, children's singing schools, and youth and cultural centres. Out-of-school education is mainly provided in the Bundesländer (provinces) or on the community level. With 200 000 school students and almost 7 000 teachers, the 430 public music schools are densely represented in all provinces – in particular the Upper Austrian music schools should be highlighted here as examples of best practice – and above all offer children and young people a high-quality musical education. As the Austrian school system is currently slowly changing from half-day-schooling to all-day-schooling,... read more →

Since 1998, the Kunstuniversitätengesetz grants university status to the six art colleges (Graz, Linz, Salzburg, and three in Vienna) for programmes like music, design, drama, dance, visual arts, painting, sculpture or architecture. University Focal Points Students 2018 Women Men Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance. conceptual art, architecture, scenography and conservation/restoration 1 450 964 486 Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien / University of Applied Arts Vienna architecture, arts sciences and education, conservation and restoration, design, fine arts and media art, language arts 1 575 1 003 572 Universität für Musik... read more →

The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research has the principal responsibility for issues concerning arts education in schools. At the elementary school level, arts education in general includes music, visual arts, textile and technical design education. According to education policy guidelines for the secondary school level, individual schools are increasingly forced to define their specific school profiles through autonomous curriculum planning. Accordingly, secondary school students can choose from different arts subjects including performing arts (mainly voluntarily) or participation in school choirs or bands and music ensembles. Generally, many vocational schools (for students over 15 years) do not offer any... read more →

The Austrian school system is essentially uniformly nationally regulated. Ministerial responsibility for education agendas has changed several times in recent years. Until 2014, education was part of the Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture and since 2016 it has been assigned to the Ministry for Education and Women’s Issues. The Ministry of Education, Science and Research was created in January 2018. In relation to the organisation (establishment, maintenance, school hours, number of students per class) of the public compulsory schools, legislation on the fundamentals the responsibility of the federal government, while the passing of implementing legislation and its execution... read more →

In 1985, a decree by the Council of Ministers established a mandatory share for the arts to be included in federal civil construction projects ("Kunst und Bau") in all provinces: 1-2% of the net construction cost has been made available to art in public projects. With the outsourcing of the federal buildings to the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG) in the early 2000s, the obligatory implementation of works of art or installations in a public building has de facto fallen. It is now up to individual institutions (such as BIG) or or the federal states, to make a voluntary contribution to art in... read more →

The Film Promotion Act (1998) regulates the Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI). The ÖFI supports films as cultural goods and Austrian filmmaking by allocating subsidies for Austrian films, e.g. for filmmakers and producers, as well as international co-productions. The ÖFI also supports film distribution and cinemas. 15% of the annual budget (amounting to a total of EUR 20 million) is dedicated to the promotion of young film makers and producers. Members of the Austrian Film Institute select the projects. The ÖFI strengthens the economic basis of the Austrian film sector as a pre-condition for the success of Austrian films nationwide and... read more →

Austrian publishing houses can apply for publishing support in the framework of the government's support for the arts. The publishing-house commission decides on proposals for the grant. Above and beyond this, printing cost supplements and translation subsidies can be applied for in the framework of the book supports. In 2019, about 50 publishing houses were supported with a total of EUR 2.6 million. The Federal Law on Fixed Book Prices was implemented in 2000. It refers to publishing, import and trade of books, and since 2014 also applies to E-books and online-trading. This law was important to ensure that small... read more →

Under the Federal Arts Promotion Act, the government purchases works by contemporary fine artists as a support measure. The administration of this collection – Federal Artothek – which contains more than 37 000 objects was contracted out in 2002; the federal government remains the owner of the collection itself. The holdings of the government's Artothek were moved to the 21er Haus (Belvedere) in 2012. Since 2005, the ‘resale right’ has guaranteed artists and their legal heirs a share of the commercial profit that resellers (auction houses, art dealers) receive from the increased value of a work, in that artists receive between... read more →

There are special regulations concerning theatre funding, stating that the government is obliged to pay an annual supplement (currently EUR 21.3 million per year from 2017-2021) to the regional and city theatres under the regularly agreed Financial Equalisation Act (2017). The Federal Law on the Establishment of the Salzburg Festival Fund (1950) provides for the Salzburg Festival's losses to be covered by the federal government (40%), the province of Salzburg (20%), the city of Salzburg (20%) and the fund for the promotion of tourism (20%). In August 1998, federal theatres (Burg- and Akademietheater, Staats- und Volksoper) were reorganised as limited... read more →