Art School Alliance (ASA) Kumasi, Ghana

Deadline: Sunday, Feb 15, 2026, 11:00pm

The Art School Alliance (ASA) offers one student of the Institute for Fine Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to study one semester tuition-free at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; College of Art and Built Environment (Kumasi, Ghana) in the winter semester 2026/27. Students can get housing on campus free of charge. However, there are additional costs, such as health insurance. A partial funding via the Erasmus+ Program is avaialble (700€/month + Travel costs support amounting to 1188€).

Further information:https://cabe.knust.edu.gh/

Expected semester dates: 25 May 2026 – 5 September 2026

SUBMISSION

Application is open to regular students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna majoring in Photography, Painting, Graphic Arts and Printmaking Techniques from their third semester. Participation in the context of the final thesis is also supported.

Submissions are to be uploaded as a PDF file (max. 10 MB) and should include the following elements:

The PDF files are to be uploaded to https://calls.akbild.ac.at by Sunday, February 15, 2026, 23:00.

To use the submission system you have to register once (if you do not have an account yet) - please use your @student.akbild.ac.at - address to identify yourself as a student. Login is NOT possible with the Akademie Online password, as this is a separate system.

 

AWARDING PROCEDURE

In a selection meeting, the mobility coordinators (https://www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/internationales/international-office/qualitaetssicherung) will decide on the awarding of the ASA scholarship to an applicant. The result will be announced via e-mail by the end of March 2024 at the latest.

We request serious applications only! Students who receive an acceptance and cancel without a valid reason will be blocked from all mobility programs of the Academy for one year.

For questions about the call, please contact Simon Barranque: s.barranque@akbild.ac.at

For further information please contact Simon Barranque (s.barranque@akbild.ac.at, +43 1 588 16-2104)

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