Collaboration

Stockholm University of the Arts conducts research, education and collaboration with various stakeholders and actors in society. Collaboration is a high priority for the University and is guided by its overall goals and visions.

Dance students lie on top of each other like dominoes. From the performance Dance Empathy 2022. — Photo: Liz Kinoshita

Through a living dialogue with the surrounding society, SKH strengthens the quality of education and research and gives students and staff the opportunity to develop. Through this mutual exchange, the activities at SKH also benefit the surrounding society. For example, SKH regularly collaborates with SVT, theatres and other performing arts institutions, museums and schools.

Within Collaboration SKH will:

be an active player in society, reflecting, challenging and helping to shape society through the arts.
drive the development of education and research through mutually strategic national and international collaborations.
construct forms of dialogue, networking and skills development for alumni and professional artists.
promote the reciprocal exchange of education and research processes and results in open forums.

The education programmes' interaction with the surrounding society

The aim is both to allow students to meet the future labour market and the audience, and to give these groups an entry point into the University's various activities in order to disseminate and build up knowledge in this way. Through public performances on the University´s own stages and on professional stages, as well as through tours in, for example, a school environment, the University's students meet both experienced and unaccustomed audiences. The artistic programmes that are not stage-based meet their audiences in a similar way, for example at festivals. The Teacher Education Programme in Dance and the Dance Pedagogy Programme meet the groups of children, young people and pupils with whom they will work after graduation through their practical training. SKH also works on knowledge transfer and mutual exchange through collaboration with external partners.

Encounters with the professional world

Encounters with the professional world are central to the development of the programmes. In addition to the use of established artists as guest lecturers, dialogue with the profession is an important source of inspiration for the type of independent courses to be offered by the University and for the development of its programmes. Networking, with different parts of the sectors concerned by the University's activities, is another important way of working. Examples of targeted activities that enable the University's students to meet the labour market include practical training and internships, and performances given in collaboration with professional artists and stages.

Research interaction with the surrounding society

Every year, the SKH organises some forty seminars, presentations, lectures and workshops, among other things with the aim of raising and bringing to life issues that are rooted in the specific research questions of the various fields of research.

An essential part of SKH's collaborative assignment within research is to strengthen collaboration in the international environment for artistic research and doctoral studies. Many seminars, conferences, research presentations and dissertations that take place on site at SKH can also be followed digitally and are thus available to more people.

Examples of collaboration are when we invite institutions, companies and organisations representing the artistic fields represented within the SKH to discuss and create an understanding of how research can be developed in dialogue with the various sectors.

The PhD candidates discuss their research with a number of groups outside the University, mainly in relation to the themes they worked on in their research, but there is also a lot of interest from the different fields they themselves are part of. In this way, the insights of the research are disseminated to a variety of audiences outside the university. The SKH also participates actively in a number of national and international research networks, such as the Society for Artistic Research (SAR).

Co-operation with other higher education institutions

The University has several established collaborations with other higher education institutions nationally and internationally. Within these co-operations, students from different programmes study together and thus encounter different approaches to different issues.

Kulturskoleklivet

Kulturskoleklivet is a training initiative to meet the need for further training and more trained teachers in Kulturskolan (School of the Arts for pupils in primary and secondary education).

Contract Education

SKH can provide you with assistance in tailoring training programmes if you want to provide skills development for your staff.