OPEN CALL: Online info sessions for MA and PhD programmes

The Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) invites prospective students and other interested participants to attend online info sessions for our international master’s and PhD programmes. These sessions offer an excellent opportunity to learn more about the studies, and to meet and ask questions directly from people behind the programmes, both current students and teaching staff. The info sessions will take place between January 12 and February 11, 2026, online, pre-registration is needed (registration links here).

EKA offers eight international master’s programmes:

Animation MA programme treats animation as a powerful form of artistic expression and supports students in developing their authorial voice through collaborative, project-based learning, hands-on practice, and international engagement, preparing them to become independent filmmakers.

Contemporary Art MA is a programme for emerging artists that centres on individual studio practice while encouraging collaboration, experimentation, and critical reflection, offering access to extensive facilities, international exchanges, and strong connections to Tallinn’s vibrant contemporary art scene and the wider global art field.

Craft Studies programme, a true hub for emerging craft makers and thinkers, expands contemporary craft through research-driven, hands-on practice, integrating theory and material experimentation while rethinking traditional and future approaches to making with an environmentally conscious perspective.

Graphic Design MA programme takes an expanded view of graphic design, developing students’ independent practices through self-reflective, collaborative work and diverse forms of making, publishing, and public engagement.

Interaction Design MA programme focuses on designing meaningful human interactions across products, services, and systems, combining human-centred, ethical, and experimental approaches with real-world projects to develop impactful design practices.

Urban Studies MSc is an interdisciplinary, collaborative programme that explores cities in the context of global change, combining small-group, research-based learning with fieldwork and projects to cultivate critical thinking and prepare students for transformative careers in urban policy, planning, and related fields.

Literature, Visual Culture & Film Studies, a joint programme between EKA and TLU, offers a broadly interdisciplinary study of the relationships between literature, visual culture and film in contemporary and historical contexts.

Service Design Strategies and Innovation, a joint Erasmus Mundus programme between EKA, Art Academy of Latvia and University of Lapland, with a focus on service design, management and leadership.

The international master’s programmes are designed for artists and designers with the ambition to develop and enrich their individual practices through cross-disciplinary investigations. EKA encourages bold experimentation, and students may take courses and workshops outside their specialisations. The curricula are constructed in such a way as to cultivate the analytical abilities and critical thinking of students who develop into environmentally and socially conscientious creators. The teaching language of the programmes is English, and the duration is two years.

In addition to the MA curricula, EKA offers four doctoral programmes: Architecture and Urban Planning, Art and Design, Art History and Visual Culture, Cultural Heritage and Conservation.

Online info session about doctoral studies at EKA will take place on February 11 at 3pm EET online via Zoom. More information and registration here.

The Estonian Academy of Arts is the only public university in Estonia offering higher education in architecture, design, fine arts, art culture, cultural heritage and conservation. It is an active study and research institution and the leading national center of innovation in visual culture. EKA has been listed among Top 150 Architecture and Design Universities in the World by QS World University Rankings.

Twelve hundred students currently enrolled at EKA are taught by nearly three hundred professors, associate professors, lecturers and workshop managers from Estonia and abroad. Small groups of carefully selected students enable a more personal, one-on-one approach to instruction and family-like, close-knit atmosphere. EKA prides itself on the low student-to-faculty ratio. Studies take place in an award-winning campus with an innovative and inspiring environment. Students are encouraged to make use of EKA’s extensive facilities at EKA, including photography and sound studios, wood- and metalworking workshops, 3D modelling lab, and textile, glass, ceramics, and printmaking studios, among many others.

We invite you to join us!

Application deadline for the Master’s programmes is March 2 at 3pm (EET), and for the PhD programmes March 31, 2026, at 3pm (EET). For more information about the programmes and admission requirements, visit here or contact admissions@artun.ee.