The Bezalel Academy after more than hundred years of activity relays great importance to theoretic and applicable research in the fields of design arts and architecture. Bezalel acts as a cultural center where praxis and theory truly interact, and where the theory of art praxis is being built. An Art Academy in the twenty-first century is tested not only through the success of its alumni in the arts field, but through its contribution to research. Teaching and research today are two mainstays of the academic education in the arts field, where they reciprocate, inseparable in their coexistence. Bezalel works to create a research activity frame for both its lecturers and students and encourages them to be involved in the research, to participate in international groups and to publish the results of their work in the local and international professional community.
European Research projects
Promoting the Understanding of Shared Heritage is a EU Partnership for Peace programme with the Al Quds University, the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and the Jordan Society for Sustainable Development. This tri-lateral project aims to create a regional debate on issues of cultural and natural heritage, resulting in concrete benefits at the national and regional levels. more...
TEMPUS – Corinthiam
The CORINTHIAM project is based on five pillars of activities and includes the establishment of a Central Office Responsible for the Integration at Home of Internationalization as Assurance of quality in the Meda region, and the application of the European Credit Transfer System of the Bologna protocol to increase mobility of students. more...
DESURBS
This project of the Seventh Framework is in the process of contract negotiation and will hopefully commence in the beginning of the year 2011 and focuses on the DESigning of safer URBan Spaces and addresses the issues of planning, (re)design, and (re)engineering of urban areas to make them less vulnerable and more resilient to security threats. more...
UNESCO
Archives - Memory of the World
UNESCO established the Memory of the World Programme in 1992 following a growing awareness of the perilous state of preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage in various parts of the world. The General Guidelines to Safeguard Documentary Heritage published by the Memory of the World Programme (2002) states that more...
International Conferences:
Interrelationships among music, the visual arts and the
Performance arts