You will start in the first semester by working on your Portfolio Project, either at one of our faculties or at an organization outside our institute. Your goal is to expand your project management skills in an external environment and work with the specialists in the field.

This project experience is intended to teach you to work within the margins of the assignment and deal with client deadlines, external pressure and requirements. Simultaneously you will follow classes designed to support a theoretical or methodological perspective.

A supervisor will monitor the progression of your project weekly. The monitoring will focus on your progress, separate from the project outcome.

Supportive studies during the Portfolio Project are Project Management, Capita Selecta and Research Methodologies and Skills.

The Final Project Laboratory constitutes a transition from the Portfolio Project to the Final Project. The Final Project Laboratory is an intensified module of both supportive studies and an exploration of Final Project topics selected by the students.

In this module you are also assigned to construct a field study programme in which you pay a visit to Brussels as the European Capital, meet a diverse range of creative industry experts and policy makers and organize workshops to improve management skills.

An intensive programme teaching research and methodology skills and writing skills during this Lab period will help you to write a Final Project proposal. Your proposal will be monitored and checked by our supervisors to ensure academic level and to ensure that it meets the course requirements.

The Final Project starts in the second semester. This is an individual, practice-based research project intended to develop a new management tool for art management. The tools are developed either for a specific context or for a problem arising within a certain field of work. The tools are then thoroughly researched, tested and benchmarked within the context for which they are developed.

Part of the Final Project is a month of research abroad. For Dutch students this means putting their research in an international perspective and therewith broadening their context. International students can either choose to do so in the Netherlands or abroad.

Upon return, you will take part in the Knowledge Transfer course unit. This unit offers a platform to share experiences with fellow students and others interested (students or staff). Presenting your results in public will help you train your presentation skills such as public speech and defence.

Your Final Project report must be submitted by mid-August. It will be reviewed at the end of August, upon which graduation can follow.