Participating schools
Prestigious design schools from around the world are participating in the 4th annual Triumph Inspiration Award 2011. Take a closer look at a selection of these exceptional institutions.International Schools
Argentina
Asociación Biblioteca de la Mujer (BAM)
Private institute that offers 3 courses including fashion and interior design.
The diploma of Fashion design is supported by the University of Morón.
Argentina
Universidad de Morón
Founded in 1960, this is a private university with more than 20 000 graduates and more than 50 degree courses in it´s schedule.
Argentina
Universidad de Belgrano (UB)
Private university created in 1964, nowadays it counts with more than 30 options in degrees and 6 masters of different areas.
It also offers semester courses for international students.
Argentina
Universidad Argentina de la Empresa ( UADE)
Private university created in 1957 with more than 50 years of experience in education.
It offers 34 options in degrees and 6 in masters.
Argentina
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Facultad de Diseño y Urbanismo.
Is the largest university of Argentina and the national state is economically in charge of it.
It`s free and independent. The first year is common to all students in which they learn the basic knowledge in regards to their career.
Fashion design was created in 1989.
Austria
Fashion Institute of Vienna
The Fashion Institute of Vienna is an institution of the City of Vienna which offers two different Training Programmes - Higher Vocational School for Fashion and Product Design and, in cooperation with the University for Art and Industrial Design in Linz, a Bachelor of Arts Degree Programme in Fashion - currently unique in Austria. Passing the Artistic Aptitude Test is a necessary requirement for entering either of the Training Programmes consisting of various Departments such as Fashion Design, Knitwear Design, Product Design – Leather Accessories (Bags, Shoes, Accessories), Product Design – Millinery as well as Textile Design and Print (the latter only in Higher Vocation School).
The artistic focus is on a variety of subjects such as Fashion Design, Fashion Graphics, Nude Life Drawing, Drawing from Nature, Experimental Design or Colour Composition. Projects with commercial enterprises are of essential importance. Highest technical skills, interdisciplinary approach to teaching, diversity of languages, computer techniques, digital media design, marketing and presentation techniques, development of individually tailored advertising strategies and logos are indispensable.
Various events complement the lessons– workshops, guest lectures, excursions, visits to fashion fairs in Austria and abroad or symposia with international experts such as, for instance, Hetzendorf Talks (Hetzendorfer Gespräche) which, focusing on issues regarding Fashion and Movement, took place for the ninth time in 2008.
The Bachelor of Arts Degree Programme in Fashion (6 terms with 180 ECTS points), was launched in 2006 in cooperation with the University of Art and Industrial Design of Linz. The lectures take place exclusively at the Fashion Institute of Vienna while the academic degree is awarded by the University of Art and Industrial Design of Linz. Bachelor of Arts Degree is a pre-requisite for any MA Degree Study Programme in Arts. Approximately 25 freshmen can be admitted to the Programme.
Belgium
Atelier Lannaux
L’Atelier Lannaux is a Private School that was established in October 1992. With 18 years of experience and existence, the school has created its own significant place among the fashion schools of Belgium.
The specificity of L'Atelier is its focus on ready-to-wear and haute couture range.
It is a unique institute in Belgium where students are still learning to make their own patronage, where know-how is not lost. Today in Paris, the biggest financial risk is in hiring young designers to give new life to the clutches of world renowned design industries such as Christian Dior or Louis Vuitton.
The school's aim is to train students professionally to enter the job market. The curriculum is very complete, with many opportunities existing for students who have completed their studies successfully.
The designer or stylist can become: freelance designer, stylist business enterprise modeler, designer consultant in a consulting firm, buyer for specialty stores, product manager or stylist for fashion magazines.
Belgium
Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer
Founded in Brussels, the school of higher education Francisco Ferrer accommodates nearly 3,000 students. It offers a complete education in six categories (applied arts, economics, paramedical, educational, technical, translation and interpreting) in which it organizes, according to the principles of the Bologna process, in fifty branches short (Bachelor) and long (Master). Each of these curricula is based on three pillars: a strong theoretical component, practical training involving many professionals and an internship in the professional environment. Through this organization, the school of higher education Francisco Ferrer aims to equip its graduates with the skills required to fit smoothly and quickly in the labor market.
The primary purpose of the study "fashion designer" is to train multifaceted individuals, who are able to fill all the roles inherent to the business, from choosing the yarn and color, through the successive stages of drawing, to the realization of the prototype, not to mention the economics of the process. The department "fashion designer" also offers a double learning: ‘fashion’ that develops creativity and ‘designing’ that requires students to "think" about their creations, to examine the technical difficulties which are peculiar and to resolve them. Therefore, this dual program allows young talent to create, while remaining attentive to the criteria of "feasibility" and "profitability" considering the socioeconomic aspects of their productions.
Belgium
HELMo
In 1995, the French Community of Belgium decided for the grouping of Institutes of Higher Education in High Schools.
Following this initial evolution, on September 15, 2008, the High School HELMo (HEMES gathering and ISEL).was born
HELMo proposes 33 very diverse training in different fields such as: economics, paramedics, educational, social, technical along with types of the Bachelor and Masters Programmes.
With its 5,600 students and 720 members of staff, HELMo is one of the largest High Schools in the French Community.
Located in the new district of Outremeuse in Liège, in the heart of the Arts high school Saint-Luc, the HELMo MODE section offers a unique training in the French Community to enable students to develop the best technical and artistic skills expected of the professional world. The work enviornment supports a maximum development of ideas and contacts between students from different fields.
Belgium
Institut Marie-José
The Marie-José Institute specializes in adult education in the fields of clothing, furnishings and decor. While offering training courses with professional orientation, the implementation also offers upgrades and specializations for textile technicians. Guided by its history, the Marie-Jose Institute was located in different parts of the city Liege, including the Herman Reuleaux Street in Outremeuse. Since January 1996 it is settled in the complex of the Institute Saint-Laurent and since 1998 it has its permanent establishment there.
Belgium
Syntra West
You do not want to attend school anymore but you still want to continue studying? At syntra West you can follow a daytime course. Theory and practice are perfectly aligned so that after your training you can immediately start working. If you succeeed in your training course you will receive a business degree, so that you can immediately start your own business if you wish.
http://www.syntrawest.be/opleidingen/design_en_lifestyle/mode_en_kledij
Belgium
SASK Lier
Since September 2006 the department fashion and object design has developed into a very artistic and interesting workshop with a lot of motivated people. This workshop provides an art education where individuality and originality are central. The proportion theory of a figure is important for the student’s basis for his own designs to express a personal imagery. Within the program, we study style periods, color, materials and design of the object. The reform of this object to the human body is part of the quest to dress a person. Individual research, together with impulses from different disciplines provides a solid foundation as the basis for its own creation process. Throughout the entire program it remains a challenge to find your identity as a designer and to see fashion in a broader context.
Belgium
SAKS Sint-Niklaas
It takes a lot of effort to study in the department of ‘fashion’. The structure begins with fashion-figure drawing. After that, students start experimenting with non-processed cotton and then head onto new fabric textures. Students then work around historical costumes, ethnic groups; theme’s that students pick themselves. Every piece of clothing is the result of in-depth research. At the end of the course we learn how to put together a portfolio that students can use to present to the fashion world that they are able to create their own collection independently. The absolute climax is the presentation of the finalised collection at an original location which ends in an overwhelming and highly appreciated fashion show with national appeal.
http://www.academiesintniklaas.be/hogere/mode/content.htm
Belgium
KASK Gent
The Ghent Academy is one of the oldest in Belgium. It started out as a private school for drawing, painting, and architecture at the home of artist Philippe Karel Marissal in 1741, but soon acquired material support of the city council and was recognized by decree and endowed with a Royal title by the Austrian empress Maria-Theresia in 1771.
Today, this old, royal lady is a trendsetter in training pioneering artists and designers. With more than 1,300 students and 300 highly specialized instructors, the academy is a breeding ground for excellence and creativity. In a world of unfettered economic globalization, with social, ecological and military instability as a result, the Ghent Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK) is an oasis in which humanity can continue to rediscover itself. Being a student at the Ghent Academy is the start of a far-reaching adventure. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, or KASK) is one of 13 faculties of the University College Ghent, the largest independent college in Flanders and its third-largest institution for higher education. The University College Ghent is a member of working relationships with Ghent University. In addition to visual and audiovisual arts, the University College Ghent also offers study programs in drama, interior design and cultural management. The KASK campuses, Bijloke and Kunsttoren, are at the epicenter of Ghent, the cultural capital of Flanders. This haven at the heart of the historic city is very welcoming to students.
Bulgaria
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ART, Sofia
The National Academy of Art is considered to be the most prestigious Bulgarian institution for training professional artists in the field of fine and applied arts, design, conservation and restoration of history and theory of art (in BA, MA and DA degrees). National Academy of Art was opened on 1 October 1896 by Decree signed by Prince Ferdinand. This Act made legitimate the oldest institution for higher education in Bulgaria. Priority of the present day policy of the academy is improvement and innovation of the contents of the curricula, study plans and material base and adopting new methods and technologies in the education and training. A special attention is paid in helping the creative and scientific projects by organizing competitions, the results of which are visible. They include completion of numerous creative tasks including cataloging and incorporating their documentation in the different disciplines, holding of scientific conferences, compiling and publishing of scientific books, reconstruction materials and technical base for experimental or creative aim and many others.
The National Academy of Art has two departments, of Fine Arts and of Applied Arts. The chairs in both departments are responsible for teaching and research, and for the development and implementation of the curricula in the following fields where students acquire professional university degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Arts. The subject of Fashion is a part of the Faculty of Applied Arts and was established in 1999.
At the present time the academy is educating around 900 students in different subjects in the sphere of visual arts, science of art and design, including 130 foreign students and more than 40 Bulgarian and foreign Doctors of Art.
Bulgaria
New Bulgarian University
The New Bulgarian University is a private university established 1991. It started with human sciences, and later on established theater, music, visual arts and design.
The Design and Architecture Department, established 1994, comprises BA and MA programs in fashion design, interior design and architecture. Some of our fashion design students have been awarded at international fashion competitions. Our alumni, work as either a free-lancer or are employed at apparel factories, fashion magazines, TV-channels both in Bulgaria and in Europe, even as far away as the USA.
Our 3rd and 4th year fashion design students are eager to face the challenge of designing for the Triumph Inspiration Award. It is an exciting but difficult task, and also an opportunity to get at least a glimpse at the wide world of fashion.
We are very thankful to the Bulgarian Branch of Triumph International for granting us this opportunity.
Assoc.Prof. Elena Todorova
Head of the Design and Architecture Department
New Bulgarian University
Chile
UDLA Design School
We will do deeply emphasis in the cultural observatory where the students will have to immerse from the first day. It becomes extremely necessary to form professional’s worships in historical and contingency topics. In another hand the creative expansion will take relevant place.
Chile
INACAP - Universidad Tecnológica de Chile
INACAP is a non-profit private Institution administered by a Board of Directors made up of representative of the CPC, CNPDS, SCT (Production and Commerce Confederation, Private National Corporation for Social Development and Technical Services Cooperative).
The close relationship with these areas , provides the institution with an accurate professional profile of the human resources required by the productive sectors of the country. With over 45 years of experience, INACAP is the largest Institution of Higher Education in Chile and it counts with 25 campuses distributed from Arica to Punta Arenas.
INACAP has more than 108.000 students enrolled in more than 150 programs of study in its Technical Center, Professional Institute and University, standing out of them Fashion Design Career. Our Fashion Design degree program at INACAP aims to shape and develop the competences of students capable of understanding the ever-changing rules of fashion. The program follows a cross-field and multicultural approach, matching technologies, culture design, fabrics and fashion industry.
Our students count with computer laboratories with MAC and PC plataforms, learning to use diverses graphic programs including LECTRA modeling system, for the development of digital competences. The students have the unique opportunity to colaborate with national fashion and design companies.
China
Dong Hua University
Donghua University (DHU) was founded in 1951 in the downtown area in Shanghai. DHU is one of the state-key universities directly under the Ministry of Education of China. DHU is a multi-disciplinary university with a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs across a vast field of disciplines
Donghua University art & design department started to recruite students in 1984. It was one of the earliest fashion schools that recruits students in mainland China in early 1980's. Dong Hua University has been trying to cooperate with several international schools recently. It has recently announced several big projects with art & design schools in US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherland, Australia, Japan, Korea, Finland and Hongkong. The projects include the education, training etc.
As early as 1954, DHU commenced to accept international students who were among the first group of overseas students enrolled by Chinese universities. To date, DHU has brought up a huge number of international students from over 100 countries. Almost all of undergraduate programs, postgraduate and research programs are open to international students. Besides, non-degree programs including Chinese language programs, Degree-Preparation program, advanced study programs, and a variety of short-term programs are available to international students.
The school has also attended the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes as the exclusive representative of Mainland China in 1995.
China
Tsinghua University
The predecessor of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University is the Central Academy of Arts & Design. With the approval of the State Council, the Central Academy of Arts & Design (CAAD) was established in 1956 to meet the country’s demand for art design professionals. As New China’s first academy of art design, CAAD had the country’s best fine art educators. Since the Forties, the CAAD remained the only independent academy of art and design in China. In November 1999 as China began restructuring its institutions of higher learning and therefore the CAAD merged with Tsinghua University and changed its name to the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. Within this change, the University opens up a new chapter to develop the art design discipline in a comprehensive university. The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University has cultivated a large number of art and design professionals, turning out 8,442 graduates with bachelor’s degrees, 1,085 with master’s degrees and 143 with PhD degrees. In addition, it has trained more than 10,000 people who did not receive academic degrees. Many graduates from the Academy are now holding senior positions in the country’s colleges and universities, research institutes and relevant enterprises.
China
Beijing Institute of FashionTechnology
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT) is China’s premiere educational facility associated with fashion, mainly specializing in art and technology. With defining characteristics, BIFT is a full-time higher education institution where art, technology, economics, management and other convergent disciplines can successfully interact. Founded in 1959, the institute was first affiliated with the Ministry of Textiles. Then it evolved into a supervisory institution under the City of Beijing in 1998.
In recent years, the institute’s motto has been “innovation paves the way for realistic and creative applications in education”, and this visionary administrative philosophy gives the institute its special academic flavor. BIFT, which accommodates 7000 students and 700 academic staff, combines art education and engineering education.
BIFT expends effort in training realistic, professional, and talented individuals with firm theoretical foundations, wide knowledge, strong practical and creative abilities, and sound physical and mental health. In the last three years, non-art majors have received 213 awards, including the Silver Prize of the National University Students Entrepreneur Competition; the Special Award of Beijing Challenge Cup University Extracurricular Works Competition as well as other prestigious awards. The art majors have earned 592 national and international competition awards, including the Gold and Silver Prizes of the Hanbo Cup International Young Designers’ Works Competition; the Gold Prize of UNESCO’s “Elegant China”Fshion Design Competition and many other important awards.
China
China Academy of Art
China Academy of Art is one of the top art schools in China. It has always been regarded as one of the top art schools in China. The University has more than 8000 students, around 1000 employees. The school has 10 departments of fashion and arts. In 2007, China Academy of Arts has been nominated again as China's major school, and the high intelligent talents station.
China
Raffles Design Institute Shanghai
Raffles Design Institute was founded with Donghua University (one of major schools in 211 project)and the Raffles Design Institute in Singapore. It was noted for its new creative teaching techniques in Asia Pacific.The school now is also a base of "Zhonghua Cup" --International Fashion Design Association. and member of IIDA, and other media associations. Raffles Design Institute has won a series of gold medals for Shanghai Education Expo in 2006 and 2007. After 16 years of developing, Raffles Design Institute has more then 3000 students, and several professional majors such as fashion design, fashion marketing, graphic design, MBA etc. Raffles has trained many professional talents in the area of fahion and arts.
China
Wuhan Textile University
Wuhan Textile University is one of the comprehensive institutions of higher learning incorporating science, engineering, liberal arts, economics, management and education, with special emphasis on engineering.
With the aim of cultivating textile specialists and serving Hubei's textile industry, Wuhan Textile University（WTU）was founded in 1958 in central China, Hubei's capital Wuhan, which is known as“the thoroughfare leading to nine provinces”with many universities and talents.
Formally named Wuhan Institute of Textile Engineering WIST, it was one of the eight colleges directly under the administration of the former Ministry of Textile Industry. In 1998 when its administration was transferred to Hubei Province, it was renamed as Wuhan University of Science and Engineering (WUSE) in 1999. WTU is now under the co-building of the Province and the Ministry of Education. It is the only college in Central and Southwest China that features studies in textile and apparel. In 2010, it was renamed as Wuhan Textile University (WTU) by Ministry of Education.
WTU now possesses an outstanding reputation and potential in its scientific research. There are 2 national key research bases of the Ministry of Education (key laboratory, project center) and 12 provincial key research bases.
China
Xi’an Polytechnic University
Xi’an Polytechnic University enjoys a long history which can be traced back to 1912 when it was the Weaving Division of the Beijing Higher Industrial School. Today XPU has become a comprehensive university of engineering and science, specializing in textile, apparel and art design, along with other subjects such as economics, management, humanity, and law.
XPU is always open to international friends. Fundamental friendship and long-standing cooperation with almost 40 universities and organizations abroad have been established for decades. More than 150 students are currently studying or have finished their dual degree study at XPU and partner universities in the U.S.A. and Great Britain. Frequent official exchange visits strengthen the understanding and communication between XPU and our partner universities and organizations. Each year we have several guest professors from Germany, the U.S.A., Australia and other countries to do short-term teaching, deliver lectures or conduct research programs. XPU has successfully held several international conferences, such as the first and second International Wool Conferences, The Sixth China International Warp Knitting Design Awards. This extensive network with overseas partner universities and organizations and the multi-cultural atmosphere for friends of all nations contributes to our vision to become a global university. Globalization is incorporated in every aspect of the university giving our staffs and students a truly international dimension.
China
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Guangzhou Fine Arts Institute is the only arts academic institute in southern east China. It was founded in Wuchang, Hubei Province, and then moved to Guangzhou in 1958. In 1981 the school has been authorized to the Master's degree authority, and it's one of the earliest schools of Master's Degree authorition. Guangzhou Fine Arts Institute began to recruit students from Hongkong and Macau since 1987. In 2005, the school has been authorized by the governement for the authority of training program of MFA.
China
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Located at the mountainous municipal city Chongqing and with a history of over 64 years, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute is one of the five most prominent art academies in China and the only one located in the south-west of China.
The institute enjoys great prestige both domestically and internationally. These excellent art works have become the milestones in contemporary Chinese art. At present, exchange relations with more and more foreign art institutes, delegations and artists are established, dispatching students to study abroad and receiving foreign students to study in our institute, which result in promoting international art exchanges and development. These outstanding artists make huge contribution to the development of Fine Arts in China.
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute is the first-choice location for many foreign students to continue their education. And all the facilities, gym, football playground, tennis court, network center, student center are available; including Chongqing Museum, the only one which is set up in university.
China
Sichuan University
Sichuan University is one of China’s key universities under the direct supervision of Ministry of Education. Located in West China, it is identified as a key high-level comprehensive research university. The CPC Committee Secretary of the University is Professor Yang Quanming, and the President is Professor Xie Heping.
Sichuan University is located in downtown Chengdu, a famous historic and cultural city known as “the land of abundance”. It is the earliest higher education institute in southwest China. It was not only one of the first western-style universities, but also one of the first universities to offer postgraduate programs in China.
Sichuan University has actively promoted both national and regional development of economy and society, and its capacity to contribute to the society is becoming stronger. The University is one of the 6 national technology transferring centers and one of China’s 10 pilot universities in intellectual property rights protection.
France
Istituto Marangoni
Paris, the birth place of Fashion. Every year over two thousand students from all over the world meet at Istituto Marangoni to pursue a common dream: fashion. Young talents can find competence, professionalism and long standing experience, in order to become leading professionals in their sector.
Three campuses that offer fashion courses in Milan, Paris and London, 92 different countries of origin for about 2,400 total students...
This diversity is part of that creative, fundamental and indispensable melting-pot for the formation of new talents with a cosmopolitan approach.
Germany
ESMOD Munich
Design your very own favourite clothes and invent your personal look!
ESMOD represents the first step in this direction. More than just five capital letters, ESMOD is the right way to make your own ideas a reality after three years and even wear them yourself. ESMOD has been among the leading private fashion schools in the world for 170 years. It was even honoured as the best fashion school in Munich at the Galeria Kaufhof Award 2009.
With 21 schools in 14 different countries, many years of fashion expertise and an international network, it gives students an excellent basis for a career in the fashion industry. ESMOD is home to two German cities, Munich and Berlin.
But it is also represented around the globe – in France, Indonesia, Brazil, Korea, Norway, Tunisia and Japan.
A course of studies at the design school takes three years, with a major in style or modelling.
Greece
AKTO
AKTO is the leading private educational institution in Greece, in the area of design and fine arts. With more than 2,000 students and 14,000 graduates it is internationally recognized as one of the most important corporations of contemporary art education and applied arts, in South-Eastern Europe.
With its programmes of study been validated by Middlesex University, a strong connection with the employment market, its experienced teaching staff and the use of contemporary technology, students at AKTO aim at the prominence of its graduates, as creative and useful professionals.
In a well organized and contemporary environment of systematic learning, AKTO also attends to the personal development and ethos of its students, the formation of complete personalities, who will contribute to society as responsible citizens, and, with confidence, will develop a successful career in the international market.
The Fashion Design programme is validated by Middlesex University to a Bachelor (Honours) degree level. The programme aims at developing the creativity and aesthetic ability of students, the understanding of media, methods and procedures of design, their acquaintance with research, systematic follow-up and application of the international fashion trends, the development of collaborations and the communication with and guidance of people from the fashion sector, in context with a high level of professionalism.
www.akto.gr
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (former name known as Hong Kong Polytechnic) was formally established on 1 August 1972, taking over the campus and staff of the Hong Kong Technical College. Its mandate was to provide application-oriented education to meet the community’s need for professional manpower resources.
The motto of the school is “To learn and to apply, for the benefit of mankind”. For more than seven decades, PolyU and its predecessors have nurtured about 300,000 graduates. Many of them have become leaders in their industries and professions, making significant contributions to the social and economics development of Hong Kong.
PolyU students also excel in research and innovations. The school receives international recognition for the high quality of its invention. They have won more than 160 awards, including 50 Gold Awards in international invention expos held in Belgium, China, Germany, Korea, Switzerland and the United Kingdom since 2001.
Over the years, PolyU has risen higher in international rankings. It was ranked among the top 30 institutions in the QS Asian University Rankings 2011, and among the top 150 institution globally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010.
Hungary
KREA
KREA Contemporary Art School provides high quality professional middle- and high level education approved and recognized by the State. This private school was founded to offer the young generation of Hungarian artists a way into the Hungarian art life, as well as provide a professionally high-standard, contemporary, innovational and design-centered education. The contemporary minded artist education and the professional specialist's education stand in the center of our educational philosophy. With their creative designs, our students understand and implement the important role of contemporary fine- and applied art in the world. The artistic and professional level of education at this school teaches and demands a lot from the students so that they become confident creative professionals with unique designer approaches.
Hungary
ModArt
We offer an in-depth education with workshops, lectures, case studies and meetings with working people from the field. Our fashion school teaches designers a versatile, wide range of skills and produces knowledgeable students, who are able to understand and control the process of clothes manufacturing right the way through to sale. Our students can do this creatively in many different sectors, such as luxury goods, womenswear, menswear and childrens clothing as well as lingerie and accessories. The 3-year course includes all of these. Our school trains and creates designers, but it also gives them an introduction to clothes manufacturing knowledge. The designer is not a dressmaker, but needs to know the basic clothes making techniques and has to be able to communicate with those who are responsible for physically producing the collection. The students must also be able to make patterns and technical drawings. They are regularly visited by representatives in the fashion industry and therefore gain valuable insights to the world of fashion.
Hungary
Modell Divatiskola
There are two different faculties in our school: light industry (clothing- and textile industry) and human (applied art). We have 800-1000 students every year in the two buildings of the school. The theoretical education is in the main building which was renovated 2 years ago, while the practical-professional and the artistic teaching is carried out in a 5-floor training workshop in a very modern and up-to-date environment. When they are not in the workshops they are able to experience practical teaching in different companies and private enterprises. We provide our students with sewing and modeling workshops equipped with modern basic and special machines as well as equipment and décor. The students also attend textile, drawing-, modeling- and designing workshops and have access to a computer science room for graphic design. The students also have access to a technical section with a high-tech computer manufacture preparing system which cuts to size and can produce ready-to-wear clothing.
Hungary
MOME
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) offers complete traditional applied art education as well as designer, architect and visual communication planner education. MOME’S educational activity focuses on encouraging students to consciously assert their creative talent. Our goal is to form conscious creative personalities who are capable of giving high-quality solutions to problems in their professional field. In addition to our artist education, we offer art teacher faculty in order to raise the average level of visual culture. Our artistic manager faculty helps establish a relationship between certain sectors of the economy and the artistic activity.
India
Pearl Academy of Fashion
Promoted by the House of Pearl Fashions Ltd., in 1993, Pearl Academy of Fashion (PAF), has emerged as India’s most prestigious provider of education & training for the fashion, design, textile, communication, retail and fashion business management.
The Academy is spread over three campuses in India, i.e., at New Delhi, Jaipur and Chennai and holds great pride in its faculty members, students and alumni. It is ranked number one in ‘Competence of faculty’ by a Mint - HT survey- 2009 and best in ‘Pedagogic Procedures and Processes’ in 2010, apart from various other national/ international honours. At Pearl Academy of Fashion, students as well as faculty members keep receiving awards of distinction on regular basis.
PAF has established extensive international tie-ups with educational organizations of repute across the globe for student/ faculty exchange, training and consultancy services and international conferences, etc.
The academy is committed to excellence innovation and customer satisfaction and development through self and shared efforts.
Full name of College:- Pearl Academy of Fashion
Branches of this College participating for TIA 2011:- Delhi, Chennai.
Website Link: http://www.pearlacademy.com/
India
National Institute of Fashion Technology
National Institute of Fashion Technology was set up in 1986 under the aegis of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. It has emerged as the premier Institute of Design, Management and Technology, developing professionals for taking up leadership positions in fashion business in the emerging global scenario. NIFT has been granted statutory status under the act of Parliament of India in 2006, empowering the Institute to award degrees and other academic distinctions. The Institute is a pioneer in envisioning and evolving fashion business education in the country through a network of twelve professionally managed domestic centres at New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Raebareli, Bhopal, Kannur, Patna and Shillong. NIFT has further spread its wings globally with the opening of an international centre at Mauritius. NIFT has set academic standards and excelled in thought leadership by providing a pool of creative genius and technically competent professionals. The Institute provides a common platform for fashion education, research and training. WWW.NIFT.AC.IN
Ireland
GRIFFITH COLLEGE, DUBLIN
The Griffith College Fashion Design course embraces our students’ creativity. We focus on the development of our students’ original ideas through innovation, experimentation, and friendly, approachable tutors. We help them to explore a personal direction in design, from idea generation, design development and pattern cutting, through to garment construction and contemporary production techniques. Our students graduate fully prepared to a professional standard, ensuring a smooth transition from academic training to a career within the fashion industry.
Our Fashion Design course has a nationally renowned reputation, with our students’ work appearing in Image, Social & Personal and Tatler magazines, national newspapers, on the Xposé TV show, in the finals of the Nokia Young Fashion Designers competition and at the World Expo in Shanghai.
Our students are introduced to cutting edge Fashion Design technology and learn about the newest developments in Fashion marketing, production, buying, and forecasting – making them able to be flexible, creative contributors to the ever-changing world of the Fashion Industry.
Jane Leavey
Course Director
Fashion Design
Griffith College Dublin
Dublin 8
IRELAND
Ireland
The Limerick School of Art and Design
The Limerick School of Art and Design is the largest Art and Design centre outside Dublin with students from all over Ireland. LSAD has an award winning reputation in ceramics, Fashion, visual communications, painting , sculpture , combined media and teacher education.The programmes are offered at Honours Degree and we also run research postgraduate programmes up to masters and PhD. A significant factor in our success is our student orientated philosophy. Incoming students share a common first year that is predominantly diagnostic.
The award winning Fashion Dept at The Limerick School of Art and Design is established over 30 years . It has produced highly successful designers who now work in all areas of the Fashion business, designing, Merchandising, costume, stylists. Their placements bring them all over the world. The ethos of our Fashion course is that the students are both creators and makers of Fashion .Our Gerber technology and Shima knitting machines also support their technical training .
We are very excited to be the first Irish college to participate in The Triumph International Awards. We always welcome industrial liason projects as it is an essential part of their education. And what a great opportunity to be competing against colleges from all over the word. It is indeed a unique brief and project .
Anne Melinn
Head of Fashion
Limerick School of Art and Design
Limerick
IRELAND
www.lit.ie/default.aspx
Israel
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design was founded in 1970, with the goal of serving Israeli industry in all that relates to academic qualifications and R&D services for modern industries.
Shenkar is an institute of higher education and, like all the public universities in Israel, is supervised and financed by the Israeli Council for Higher Education. Shenkar offers degree courses in all the subjects studied. Tuition fees are in line with the fees charged by Israeli universities.
Shenkar's uniqueness as an academic institution lies in the close ties between the two faculties: the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Design. While both the faculties maintain their own special character, they operate joint projects, designed to expose the students to various disciplines.
The goal of the Faculty of Engineering is to provide a generation of engineers and managers who will influence the goals and processes of Israeli industry and business. The faculty aspires to be a center for the promotion of research and works closely with industry. This is done through the college's academic staff, which has at its disposal the Shenkar laboratories, workshops and centers all equipped with state-of-the-art equipment.
The Faculty of Design has set as its goal the promotion of design and its contribution to society, commerce and industry. The faculty serves as a center for the academic study of design, with the most up-to-date, relevant and forward-looking courses, while cooperating with external elements from the world of design and industry.
Shenkar is the first academic institution to operate a wireless campus. This allows dozens of students who have laptop computers to communicate with other users and to access both the college's network and the Internet.
Shenkar has achieved an international reputation and is recognized as one of the best institutions of its kind in the world. Graduates of the College are able to continue on to further studies at universities in Israel and abroad.
Shenkar graduates hold key roles in commerce, industry and the defense establishment, as well as in R&D and the civil service. Among the graduates of the Faculty of Design are designers many of whom have earned an international reputation.
Studies at Shenkar are conducted in Hebrew. Overseas students are able to study at Shenkar if they meet the academic criteria and have a good working knowledge of the Hebrew language.
Italy
Nuova Accademia Di Belle Arti Milano
NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano, is the largest and most innovative private Academy in Italy, recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. NABA undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in visual arts, communication and design are legally recognized in Europe and the world over. In late 2009, NABA became part of Laureate International Universities, a global network of more than 54 accredited institutions offering undergraduate and graduate degrees to over 650,000 students around the world.
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Italy
DOMUS ACADEMY
In the 80’s DOMUS ACADEMY imposed itself as the first postgraduate school of Design in the world: a place of advanced training and a research laboratory on processes of industrial creativity, on scenarios of aesthetics and consumption, on space-time relations, on utility and private service.
The school boasts 10 Master courses: Master in Product Design, Master in I-Design, Master in Car Design, Master in Business Design, Master in Interior and Living Design, Master in Urban Vision and Architectural Design, Master in Fashion Design, Master in Accessories Design, Master in Fashion Management, Master in Service Design. The great majority of them is validated by the University of Wales.
DOMUS ACADEMY attracts students from all over the world: in 2009 they came from 44 different countries. All the activity of Domus Academy is designed as a laboratory for research and exploration of future scenarios. The presence of multidisciplinary teams, students from all over the world and the vocation to research, typical of Italian design, is the most important elements, which characterizes the work and study environment of the school.
In 1994 DOMUS ACADEMY got the Compasso d’Oro.
In 2009, for the third time, Business Week selected Domus Academy among the 30 best schools of design in the world.
Italy
ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN
For forty years, Istituto Europeo di Design has been operating in the fields of Education and Research in the disciplines of Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication.
Today it is an international network that is constantly on the go, with seats in Milano (1966), Roma (1973), Torino (1989), Madrid (1994), Barcelona (2002), São Paulo in Brazil (2005), Venice (2007) and Cagliari (2009); IED organises three year post high school diploma courses, refresher courses, permanent catalogue courses, advanced courses and post-graduate Masters degree courses.
IED Moda Lab, IED Design, IED Arti Visive and IED Comunicazione are all truly real Schools of the “IED System”, that answer the needs of the working world, through education pathways targeted to the specific needs of the reference industries and that are flanked by a common design project culture.
Ever since 1966 IED has developed innovative and diversified teaching methodology, concentrated on the synergy between technology and experimentation, creativity, strategies and integrated communication, market issues and a new form of professionalism. The scope of Istituto Europeo di Design is in fact, to offer young professionals working in the fields of Fashion, Design and Communication, the most efficacious tools necessary to answer the constantly evolving demands of the production world.
Partnerships with foremost enterprises are a fundamental issue in the Istituto Europeo di Design’s education strategy, which characterises the entire education pathway of both courses and special end of the academic year events.
In line with its international vocation, the Istituto Europeo di Design welcomes students from different countries and cultures in all of its Seats. Every year, around 1800 foreign students enrol in its courses, mainly coming from East Asia, Central and South America and Europe.
Throughout its history the IED has trained students from 92 different countries. Thanks to its territorial growth, IED plays more and more the role of Culture and European Design Projects Ambassador participating in numerous countries in cultural, economic and environmental issues.
Japan
Bunka Fashion College
Bunka Fashion College was established in 1919 as the "Women's and Children's Dressmaking School" with the aim of spreading dress-making skills throughout Japan. In 1923, Bunka was recognized as the first educational foundation of Western-style clothing in Japan and it has since been a leader in Japanese fashion education. It has always maintained a close relationship with industry. Bunka produces a large number of internationally renowned designers as a result of its original curriculum which is closely related to all aspects of industry.
In 2009, the chairman of the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI) was selected from Bunka Fashion College. IFFTI consists of 34 member schools from 17 countries, such as the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and Central St. Martins College and Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Bunka is the only IFFTI member in Japan and since the chairman of IFFTI was selected from Bunka Fashion College it indicates that Bunka is highly regarded worldwide.
Bunka Fashion College's educational aim is to foster the originality and beauty of Japanese people and the character of each individual. It also seeks to assist students acquire skills and a sound knowledge that translates on the international stage and assists them to develop personal qualities that create genuine international relationships.
Netherlands
Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
The Willem de Kooning Academy provides a high level of education for artists, designers and teachers in visual arts and design.
Visual creativity based on concept! That is what is important at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. This academy guarantees a practical-oriented arts education on international level. The focus lies on personal ideas, stimulated through idea development. Situation in the centre of Rotterdam, the offer a state-of-the-art equipped workplaces and a wireless network to stimulate a learning environment.
Netherlands
ArtEZ Academy of Visual Arts Arnhem
The Fashion Department has a long and successful history. In 1953 the legendary Elly Lamaker set up the Department of Fashion Design and Fashion Illustration at the Arnhem Academy of Art. The students have continued the success ever since.
The Fashion Department had constantly grown since then. More then one hundred students, both Dutch and foreign, are currently taught by a qualified team of at least twenty teachers. They run one of the best fashion courses in Europe, their students regularly scoop the most coveted prices and their achievements receive a great deal of media attention.
Following their finals, a high proportion of former students have succeeded in making a name for themselves in many areas of the fashion world, both at home and abroad. For example Victor & Rolf.
Netherlands
Art school Utrecht, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design
The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design is the largest of the Art School Utrecht. It´s the place to be for visual arts and design talents. The claims for admission and demands during the study are very high. Only top talent is admitted to the faculty of visual arts and design. And that is not without reason. The faculty gives room to talent. Students set the perfect foundation for an autonomic artist profession or another artistic profession, with more than average changes on the labour market.
The Art School Utrecht does everything to prepare their students for the reality of the labour world. The Triumph Design Award is therefore the perfect example of how the students can prepare for an active practice of the profession.
Poland
Higher School of Arts and Design in Łódź
The only non-public graduate school of design, film, photography and cultural studies in the region of Łódź and in Poland, having the status of an institution of higher education in arts, offers B.A., M.A. and postgraduate studies at three faculties: the Faculty of Design, the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Film and Photography. The Faculty of Design teaches the design of textiles, clothes, jewellery, shoes and bags, as well as commercial, packaging and industrial design. The syllabus of the Faculty of Architecture encompasses the design of architectural space of domestic, commercial, cultural, public, sacral and special purpose interiors. The school is one of three film schools in Poland, and the only non-public one, whose graduates obtain the Master of Arts degree, having completed studies in a selected specialty: cinematography, directing, film and TV editing or photography. The school runs the Academic Gallery, which plays the role of a scientific information centre, educating the future designers and artists in the field of implementation of exhibition and publishing activities, as well as media relations.
Prizes and awards received by students and graduates in prestigious fashion, jewellery, graphic art and architecture competitions and at film festivals, as well as graduates’ employment in prominent design offices and agencies confirm the effectiveness of the adopted curriculum.
Poland
Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow is the oldest Polish institution of higher education in arts. It was founded in 1818 and originally functioned as the School of Drawing and Painting at the Department of Literature of the Jagiellonian University (founded in 1364). Having become an independent unit in 1873, it was renamed the School of Fine Arts and the position of its director was taken over by a distinguished Polish historical painter Jan Matejko (1838-1893), the present patron of the Academy, who significantly contributed to the formation of Krakow's artistic circles and educated many prominent graduates. After his death, an important role was played by the first rector, Julian Fałat, an outstanding landscape painter. Fałat became renowned as the reformer of the school, which then obtained the status of an institution of higher education and the name of the Academy of Fine Arts. In the period when the European art was predominated by Modernism, the Faculty of Painting had the most distinguished Polish artists as teachers; among them were Leon Wyczółkowski, Teodor Axentowicz, Stanisław Wyspiański, Jacek Malczewski, Jan Stanisławski and Józef Mehoffer, and later, after 1905, Józef Pankiewicz, Ferdynand Ruszczyc and Wojciech Weiss. At that time, the Academy became the main centre of Polish artistic life. After Poland regained independence (1918), the Paris Committee (later known as the Branch of the Krakow Academy in Paris) was organized and significantly contributed to the development and promotion of Polish art. Moreover, attempts were made to create separate faculties at the Academy. After World War II, Krakow was home to two institutions of higher education in arts. After their merger in 1950, the Academy of Visual Arts was established (since 1979, the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts). The school has continued to develop in terms of its structure, teaching staff, fields of study and methods of instruction. It has remained faithful to its splendid tradition and, at the same time, open to challenges and needs of the contemporary times. The Academy of Fine Arts teaches painters, sculptors, graphic artists, interior, industrial and fashion designers, as well as stage designers and art conservators of high standing; it effectively co-creates Polish culture and promotes it all over the world, wherever its numerous graduates or teachers and their works go.
Poland
University of Arts in Poznań
The University of Arts in Poznań came into existence in July 2010 as a result of renaming of the existing Academy of Fine Arts. It is the biggest Polish institution of higher education in arts; it has six faculties, the largest of which is the Faculty of Architecture and Design.
The Faculty of Architecture and Design specializes in interior architecture, design and furniture design; for almost a decade, it has also offered such fields of study as Stage Design with the specialty of Fashion Design, as well as Architecture and Urbanism.
The structure of the Faculty is a system of distinctive Design Studios, whose syllabi are developed on the basis of knowledge and own professional experiences of practising, active designers. The Studios are highly diversified, and students are free to choose those that propose a syllabus which is of most interest to them, also on the basis of cooperation with different companies, among others, Hansgrohe Polska, Balma SA, Noti, Mikomax, Vox Industrie, Porcelana Chodzież SA, Sanitec Koło SA and many others.
The results of students’ work are shown at prestigious exhibitions; in 2009, the Faculty was the first institution of higher education from Poland to be invited to appear at Salone Satellite during the Milan Furniture Fair. For many years, the University has also developed cooperation with the Poznań International Fair, which hosts annual big exhibitions of students’ accomplishments and M.A. diploma works.
Portugal
MODATEX
MODATEX - Vocational Training Centre of the Textile, Apparel, Clothing Manufacturing and Wool Industries- is created in 2011 by a protocol established between the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP), the International Textile and Clothing Industries of Portugal (ATP), the National Association of Apparel and Clothing Industries (ANIVEC / APIV) and National Association of Manufacturers of Wool (ANIL).
The Center with national coverage is based in Porto, delegations in Lisbon and Covilhã, poles in Vila das Aves and Barcelos.
The activity of MODATEX covers: Training, Provision of Services (training and technical consulting for companies in the sector); New Opportunities Centre, Technical Testing Laboratory, National and International Projects.
The Center offers training in the areas of Fashion and Textile Design, Computer Science Applied to Design, Management and Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Tailoring, Patterning and Clothing Manufacturing, Spining, Textile and Knitting, Refining Textile (dyeing, printing and finishing), Quality, Maintenance, Commercial and Logistics, Softskills - cross training and behavior. It also provides Short and Summer Courses, Workshops and Seminars.
Creativity, competence and proximity are the factors that differentiate training and consulting services of MODATEX.
MODATEX aspires to be the center of excellence in the training and creation of value for the fashion cluster and be recognized internationally.
Romania
The National School of Fine Arts
National University of Arts from Bucharest – Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design – Fashion Design Department, founded in 1868, has among its remarkable alumni the genius Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, well-known as the most important figure in modern art/sculpture.
Romania
“Ion Mincu” University of Arhitecture and Urbanism
“Ion Mincu” University of Arhitecture and Urbanism from Bucharest - Faculty of Interior Arhitecture – Product Design Department was founded in 1864. Since 1953, the university bears Ion Mincu’s name, a proeminent architect, engineer, professor and politician in Romania, president of the Romanian Architects Association.
Romania
“Lucian Blaga” University from Sibiu
“Lucian Blaga” University from Sibiu – Faculty of Socio-Human Studies - Fashion Design Department was founded in 1786, as a Theological-Pedagogical School, marking the beginning of Higher Education in Sibiu. It features 11 faculties, all under the name of a distinguished writer and philosopher, Lucian Blaga, the greatest creative Romanian personality of the 20 th century, who was fascinated with the morphology of the miracle.
Romania
University of Art and Design
University of Art and Design from Cluj Napoca – Decorative Arts and Design Section - Fashion Design Department was founded in 1926, by famous Romanian sculptor George Medrea and it is divided in two important parts: Fine Arts and Decorative Arts and Design.
Russia
Moscow State Textile University of A.N.Kosygin
Decorative Art Faculty - a well-known Russian school of style and fashion.
This faculty was founded in 1930. The education given to students, allows them to express themselves both in art of a creative fashion and in the industry of industrial production, graphic design and advertising. The effective technique of teaching is developed, the huge material-art base is saved up, the unique museum of art fabrics, gobelins, embroideries, laces, a national and secular suit of Russia, countries of Western Europe and the East is created. High qualified professionals in the field of design and style work at the faculty.
Singapore
Raffles Design Institute
An enterprising mind is a creative one. A creative mind seeks meaningful differentiation. Raffles is founded on the basis of offering meaningful and compelling value for everyone involved.
Studying at Raffles College of Higher Education makes a difference, especially for the enterprising ones. Not only do we believe in enabling raw talent to blossom, we also want to nurture our students into respectable professionals with practical skills via our industrial internship programme. Through active collaboration with reputable organisations in the industry, we offer our students a unique learning experience that takes them from the classroom to the real world. During their internships, students are provided with opportunities to hone their skills and put what they have learnt to practical use with our industry partners.
In addition, seminars and workshops are also conducted and actively supported by our industry partners, giving students insights into industry demands. This is the enterprising Raffles we offer you.
Singapore
LASALLE - College of Arts
Founded in 1984 by De La Salle educator, Brother Joseph McNally, LASALLE College of the Arts is a specialist tertiary institution leading contemporary arts education in fine art, design, media and performing arts in the Asia Pacific.
Contemporary in focus and innovative in approach, LASALLE has been nurturing some of Singapore’s leading creative practitioners. Our hero graduates and accomplished faculty staff include established artists at the Venice Biennale, acclaimed designers recognized by the British D&AD and red dot, respected curators, writers, musicians, dance and theatre pioneers, and countless practitioners from the creative industries in Singapore and beyond.
LASALLE offers the most comprehensive range of 26 diploma and degree awards in design, fine arts, film, media arts, fashion, dance, music, theatre, art history, art therapy and arts management in the region. As an accredited institution of The Open University, the United Kingdom’s largest university, the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by LASALLE are benchmarked against the best universities in the UK, making them internationally recognized and equivalent to UK MA, BA(Hons) and DipHE qualifications.
Singapore
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) was founded in 1938 with an inaugural batch of 14 Fine Art students. NAFA has since been widely recognised as Singapore’s pre-eminent tertiary institution for artistic studies.
Between 1999 and 2009, 11 of NAFA alumni were awarded Cultural Medallions, the prestigious national accolade for artistic achievements conferred by the President of the Republic of Singapore. In addition, 10 of our promising alumni are winners of the Young Artist Award.
Since Apr 1999, NAFA receives polytechnic-level funding for its Diploma courses from Singapore’s Ministry of Education. (http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/post-secondary/). In 2005, it moved into three purpose-built campuses along Bencoolen Street and in the same year, NAFA received the People Developer Certification, revalidated in 31 Jan 2010 to 31 Jan 2013, in recognition of its relentless effort to upgrade its staff.
Singapore
Temasek Polytechnic – School of Design
At the Temasek Polytechnic School of Design, students thrive and learn in an exciting environment which encourages creativity and versatility of expression. Here, they are exposed to the rapid changes in trends, thinking and concepts of the design world. As the only design institution in Singapore that offers the fullest, most comprehensive range of design disciplines, the cross-disciplinary and synergistic nature of design work can be explored here to the fullest.
The School of Design is well-recognised in the local and international arena as an award-winning institution. Our students have won many prestigious international and local competitions. In addition, our accomplished external examiners from reputable overseas institutions have consistently attested to the very high quality of our courses. Our graduates have been accorded advanced standing by the very best degree-granting design institutions for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Australia, UK, USA, Europe and other parts of the world.
Spain
Centro Superior de Moda de Madrid
CSDMM is a private centre, attached to the Madrid Polytechnic University. It covers theory, technology and practice in great depth, and centres itself in three main areas: Design, Applied Social Sciences and Technology.
Spain
Escola Superior de Disseny ESDi
ESDI started as a private school in 1989 and joined the Ramon Lull University in Barcelona in 1991. It was the first time that this university has considered the design as a subject matter.
Spain
Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Valencia
EASD is a public school in Valencia that offers a qualified education within the scope of different design and creation concepts. It started 150 years ago and teaches Design Products, Graphic and Fashion. Many of today’s professional Valencia Designers have been formed in their classes.
Spain
CEADE Leonardo Academy
The Leonardo Academy, fully integrated in CEADE, is furnished with the most modern technologies and relies on the necessary infrastructure and technological equipment to offer a quality higher educational training on Design and Communication in Andalusia.
Located by the Monastery of La Cartuja and sharing its urban setting, the Academy contributes to the development and growth of this science park: a place where both the business and science spheres can coexist with university learning and higher education.
The CEADE Leonardo Academy offers higher education on Design, complemented with Communication studies, with the purpose of creating highly competent professional who are given not only theoretical and empiric knowledge, but also technical skills and competences on the control of new technologies applied on creative work.
For this reason, the Academy offers an open multidisciplinary learning environment, based on the use of new technologies, which allows, through the adequate methodology, for the guarantee of an efficient academic learning process.
The Academy offers the following un-official own and private qualifications, corresponding to a 3 year higher educational system:
- Graphic Design and Multimedia Technology
- Fashion Design and Management
- Interior Design and Architectural Digital Representation
- Audiovisual Direction and Production
- Public Relations and Protocol
- Commercial Management and Marketing
Sri Lanka
Academy of Design
Academy of Design, better known as AOD, is Sri Lanka's most internationally relevant design campus and offers world renowned Northumbria University design degrees. Strengthening Sri Lanka's growing reputation as an ethical design hub, AOD has created a new breed of fashion entrepreneurs, ethical award winners and designers who're educated with global fashion standards and who care for planet earth through ethical and ecologically sound design. Today, AOD fashion graduates are shaping the future of our fashion as Sri Lanka's most globally fronted young designers.
Sweden
The Swedish School of Textiles
At the Swedish School of Textiles the creativity of art is combined with the ingenuity of technology. The degree programmes cover the entire fields of textiles, from design through manufacturing, management and technology to handloom weaving. The Swedish School of Textiles is the only one of its kind in Sweden and one among a few institutions of higher education in the world that has, within its facilities, a full-scale textile-manufacturing environment. The school has workshops and laboratories for teaching, research and developmental work.
The School educates selected students for a broad profession within Fashion Design. Education starts from a bachelor’s degree, focused from the very first day to produce higly competitive fashion Designers for a global fashion market.
The Master Programme in Textile- and Fashion Design aims to further develop and deepen students' artistic, technical, theoretical and reflective skills and abilities as textile/fashion designers. The programme offers in-depth practice-based studies and starts with the application project and ends with degree work.
The Swedish School of Textiles is a part of the Universtity of Borås. Borås, and its surrounding region, is, and has been for a long time, the centre for manufacturing of clothing and textiles in Sweden and the school maintains an extensive network of contacts with compaines in the region. This gives studnets a unique opprtuniy to meet pople from the industry and from valuable relations.
Switzerland
Swiss Textile College
Studying at Swiss Textile College means developing an eye for market requirements. We can offer this because we maintain close links to companies in the textile and clothing industry, as well as to major retailers in the international market. In numerous practically orientated workshops, students have the opportunity of familiarising themselves with the daily business within the glittering world of fashion.
During the last few years, the Swiss Textile College has made major efforts to ensure its infrastructure is 100% state-of-the-art. Studying at the Swiss Textile College is learning how to use the appropriate technology for each specific case. Without exception, lecturers employed at the Swiss Textile College have broad industry experience. This work is fully reflected in their teaching and the students derive full benefits from it.
Students majoring on Design see themselves as developers of clothing and fashion. They will be provided with in-depth training in the techniques of fashion design. The main elements of the course focus on the development of marketable clothing ranges, on the provision of insight into fashion trends, the creation of innovative concepts and the product- and market-orientated realisation of these.
Taiwan
LING TONG UNIVERSITY, Department of Fashion Design
1. This department adheres to three principles: professional, technology, and international. Be aggressive using new software & hardware equipments in order to influence international fashion trends. To cultivate talented people with profound abilities in fashion product design, planning, production, management and marketing.
2. To establish a graduate program in Fashion Design in the 2007 academic year, carry on cultivating relationships with professional people with the abilities of R&D (Research and Development) and leadership in fashion industry.
3. The future project is to establish an academic research center both in fashion, culture and design. To combine the resources both from domestic and foreign manufactures, both on campus and off campus. Increasing the integrating plan, carrying on project research and promoting research and development of new techniques.
http://www.ltu.edu.tw/~fd/english.htm
Taiwan
SHU-TE UNIVERSITY, Fashion Design Department
Founded in 1998, the Department of Fashion Design is the first academic department in Taiwan to integrate different fields such as hairstyling, make-up design, textile design, apparel design and stylish commodity design. Hence, it can be considered as the first domestic academic department concentrating on artistry modeling. The department’s instruction objectives are to focus on artistic, scientific and technological fashion design applications and to foster professional designers in order to respond to the internationalization of Taiwan’s fashion industry. The department was recognized by the Ministry of Education as one of the nation’s top academic departments, which has inspired us to play a leading role in the fashion higher education field.
Taiwan
Tainan University of Technology
Since 1960's Taiwan has already become a mature industrial society. In order to meet the urgent needs of the clothing design market and management professionals, Tainan University had established the five-year junior program of Clothing Design in 1964. The ultimate goal of setting up this Department is to cultivate clothing design and management professionals who have both capability of applying theories and possessing adequate training.
In the recent decade, the needs of clothing design and management market trend tend to be more multifaceted; therefore our Department has been always searching for breakouts by actively cooperating with clothing enterprises and has already obtained a great reputation in this fashion design field. In 1998, with the permission of Minster of Education, we have established a two-year senior college and four-year university programs.
www.tut.edu.tw/webmaster/wwwfad/english.htm
Taiwan
Fu-Jen University, Department of Textiles and Clothing
The Department of Textiles and Clothing at Fu Jen University, unique in the country, was founded in 1970. In 1994 it was incorporated into the newly established College of Human Ecology, also the first of its kind in Chinese history. In response to the needs of our Taiwan textiles and clothing industry, and in close cooperation with it, the Department operates three Sections each of which develops young professionals who, upon their graduation, may optimistically look forward to a wide range of career opportunities. The three Sections are (1) Textile Design (2) Fashion Design (3) Textile and Fashion Marketing.
Each Section offers its own specialized curriculum with much opportunity for interaction and teamwork with students from other Sections, to simulate the actual way that the industry operates. Studying and practicing in such an interactive environment allows students to develop an integrated understanding of industrial processes and the ability to engage in cooperative approaches to problems and projects, both of which are indispensable for a success career in this multi-faceted industry.
Taiwan
Shih Chien University
The University was founded in Taipei in March 1958. The Department of Fashion Design at Shih Chien University was established in 1961, the first domestic higher education institute of fashion design in Taiwan. Up to the present, the department has accumulated forty year teaching experiences. The department major objective is to cultivate talents for fashion-related industries. The department provides integrated fashion design curriculum, which develops and fosters many talents with independent thinking of fashion design through the interactivity between the teachers and students within the school.
Thailand
Chulalongkorn University
A Brief History of Chulalongkorn University Chulalongkorn University, Thailand's first institution of higher learning, officially came into being in March, 1917. The groundwork and preparation for it in terms of planning and development, however, took place more than a century ago. The worldwide economic, social and political changes in the late nineteenth century contributed to Siam's decision to adapt herself in order to avoid being colonized by the Western powers (“Siam” became “Thailand” in the year 1939). Thus King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) has royal policy to strengthen and improve government so that the country could successfully resist the tide of colonialism. One of the major parts of the policy, which would later prove to be deep-rooted and highly effective, was to improve the Siamese educational system so as to produce capable personnel to work in both the public and private sectors. As a result, a school was founded in 1871 at the Royal Pages Barrack within the Grand Palace compound.
Thailand
Silapakorn University
Silpakorn University is a well-known public university in Thailand. The university was founded in Bangkok in 1943 by Italian-born art professor Corrado Feroci, who took the Thai name Silpa Bhirasri when he became a Thai citizen.
It is the leading Thai university in the fine arts and archaeology, and now includes many other faculties as well. It has about 20,000 students.
Thailand
Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (SSRU)
Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (SSRU) is located at 1 U-Thong Nok Road, Dusit sub-District, Dusit District, Bangkok 10300. King Rama V. graciously named the place, which was once a part of the Dusit Palace, “Suan Sunandha”. Later, the Ministry of Public Instruction (presently the Ministry of Education) received the land for the establishment of Suan Sunandha Vitthayalai School on 17 May 1937. In 1958, the school was upgraded to Suan Sunandha Teachers College. In 1992, HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej graciously named it “Rajabhat Institute Suan Sunandha”, and on 15 June 2004 “Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University. At present, SSRU offers undergraduate programs, graduate programs, and doctoral degree programs to full and part-time students. SSRU has more than 80 fields of study for our students. In 2002 the university impressively obtained the highest numbers of applicants : 50000 and the top five popular subjects are Communication Arts, Business Administration, Tourism Industry, Public Administration and Computer Science.
Thailand
Kasem Bundit University
Kasem Bundit University has taken its place among Thailand’s top private universities. Since its establishment in 1987, the University continues to be an innovative leader in education, preparing graduates to serve the increasing demand of highly-qualified
professionals.
The University offers a broad portfolio of academic programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels enriched by prominent academic
staff with extensive experience and exceptional academic background.
The institution takes entire commitment to its philosophy “Value Virtue and Worthiness” which has grown as one of the national
trendsetters with a major contribution to both social and economic development.
Thailand
Bunka Fashion Academy
After the Second World War, Bunka promptly developed into an institution that responded to a rapidly changing society. As Japan's growing ready-to-wear market and industry evolved into amodern apparel industry, the College shifted its focus from tailoring to commercial-oriented fashion professionals.
Thailand
Srinakarinvirot Prasarnmitr University
Srinakharinwirot University was developed from two institutions: The Advanced Teacher Training School, founded in 1949 and the College of Education, founded in 1953. In 1974, it was named Srinakharinwirot University.
Thailand
Kasetsart University
Kasetsart University devote itself to the task of accumulating and developing intellectual knowledge. It thrives for the growth in academic wisdom including ethical and moral excellence. In addition, it has the responsibility to play a leading role in keeping our Thai heritage alive and to ensure that it continues to grow and to enrich the civilization of the notion.
Thailand
Bangkok University
BU International is excited about the growth and expansion of its enrollment and the enrichment and enhancement of its program. With each of its six major subjects developed into academic departments with renowned faculty from Thailand and abroad, Computer Graphics and Multimedia, International Tourism Management, Entrepreneurship, Communication Arts, and Business English Studies provide cutting-edge skills and insights to multinational students from more than fifty countries.
Thailand
Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep (RMUTK)
Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep (RMUTK) aims to produce graduates who are academically knowledgeable, professionally qualified, well-prepared to enter the work force and adept at keeping pace with the evolution of technology. Graduates will demonstrate strong discipline, exhibit high morals, follow professional ethics and assume social responsibility.
Vision
RMUTK is outstanding in professional education. It aims to develop students’ critical thinking along with practical skills. RUMTK offers an environment where healthy bodies and happy minds dwell in harmony.
www.rmutk.ac.th
Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT)
Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT), long established, and possessing high recognition for its educational quality for over 30 years under the name Rajamangala Institute of Technology (RIT) with its campuses found nationwide which consists of nine Rajamangala Universities of Technology, its original main campus (RMUTT) sits on an area of 750-rai on Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok Road, Tambon Klong Hok, Thanyaburi District, Pathum Thani province was one university called Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT).
RMUTT still maintains its original focus on quality teaching and instruction in science and technology and aims for high recognition from industry and organizations for its qualified graduates who are prepared and possess the needed knowledge and practical skills.
RMUTT has 10 Faculties and one college which are responsible for offering four levels of educational programs in various disciplines: diploma programs in vocational education, Bachelor’s Degree, Master's Degree and Doctor's Degree Programs.
Turkey
MARMARA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF FINE ARTS
From 1923 to 1959, the college was called the Higher Education School of Economics and Commerce. Marmara University was formally established in 1982, when it was consolidated with several schools of higher education from different fields offering undergraduate-level study in medicine, dentistry, law, and fine arts. More added faculties of arts and sciences, education, and a school of foreign languages were included to provide a full complement of university courses.
By July 20, 1982 the university encompassed 83 faculty members including 20 professors, 31 associate professors along with 197 lecturers, assistants and 280 instructors. Marmara University during 1982-1983 academic year had 9 faculties, 1 vocational school and 1 institute. Today, the university consists of 14 faculties, 9 vocational schools of higher education and 11 graduate institutes. The number of associate bachelor’s and bachelor degree programs is 136.
Turkey
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts is a Turkish state university dedicated to the higher education of fine arts. It is located in the Fındıklı neighborhood of İstanbul, Turkey. It was founded on January 1, 1882 as the "School of Fine Arts" ("Mekteb-i Sanayi-i Nefise-i Şâhâne" or simply "Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi") by the renowned Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey, who was also an art historian, archeologist and museum curator. The institution, being the first of its kind in Turkey, took up education in fine arts and architecture on March 2, 1883 with 8 instructors and 20 students. In 1914, the school became co-educational. The school was converted in 1928 to an academy, the first academy in Turkey, and its name was changed to "Academy of Fine Arts" (Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi). In 1969, it was renamed as "Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts" (İstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi). On July 20, 1982, its status was changed, and the academy became a university named "Mimar Sinan University" (Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi) after the great Ottoman architect Sinan. Finally, in December 2003, the administration of the university changed its name to "Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts".
Specialties
Fine Arts, Architecture, Design, Social Studies
Turkey
OKAN UNIVERSITY
One of the newest and most dynamic universities of Turkey, Okan University was officially founded by Okan Culture, Education and
Sports Foundation in 1999. As of 2009-2010 academic year, Okan University has a total of 88 departments in its 5 faculties, one academy, and one junior college.
Turkey
CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY
The Faculty of Agriculture, founded in 1969 by Ankara University, and the Faculty of Medicine, founded in 1972 by Atatürk University, were combined to form Çukurova University in 1973.
Çukurova University has ten faculties, three colleges, seven vocational colleges, three institutes and twenty six research and application centers. The university campus is located 10 kilometers away from Adana city center, by the Seyhan Dam Lake.
The university, with its 1903 teaching staff, offers courses to over 40,000 undergraduate, post graduate and doctorate students.
Turkey
Haliç University
Haliç University is a foundation university, which was founded in 1998 by our-Children Leukemia Foundation, which obtained much love and respect both in Turkey and all over the world as a result of the remarkable works it has carried out successfully for 25 years.
Haliç University offers 21 academic departments in its five faculties, with three schools: School of Nursing, School of Physical Education and Sport and School of Health Sciences and Conservatory.
Turkey
DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY
Dokuz Eylül University was founded on 20 July 1982. Seventeen previously founded institutions of Ege University and other various higher education institutes were affiliated to the University in the same year. The number of its academic units reached 41 until 1992. Presently DEU owns10 faculties, 5 schools, 5 vocational schools, 5 graduate schools and 5 institutes.
Faculties: Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business, Economics and Administrative Sciences, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law, Medicine, Theology.
Schools: Maritime Business and Management, Nursing, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, State Conservatory, Foreign Languages
Vocational Schools: Judicial Practices, Health Services, İzmir Multidisciplinary, and Torbalı Vocational schools.
Graduate Schools: Atatürk Principles and History of Turkish Revolution, Health Sciences, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Education
Institutes: Fine Arts, Hemodialysis and Transplantation, Marine Sciences and Technology, Oncology, Theology.
United Kingdom
LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION
London College of Fashion's rich heritage and responsiveness to changes in design practice have positioned it as a leading global provider of fashion education, research and consultancy.
The College's work is centred on the development of ideas: its staff and students use fashion alongside historical and cultural practice to challenge social, political and ethical agendas. This, combined with its forward-thinking business and management portfolio and its relationship with the global fashion and lifestyle industries, is the underpinning of its mission to "Fashion the Future".
The BA (Hons) Fashion Contour course, based in Central London W1 & Shoreditch, focuses on the design, pattern cutting and making of bra’s, lingerie, swimwear and structured bodywear, and is designed and delivered with employment in the Industry in mind.
Students will gain the relevant professional, communication and business skills, by undertaking live projects set by Industry, involving presentations to and from companies. The course also operates an optional placement year between the second and final year, which as well as giving the students the opportunity to make contacts and gain experience within the industry, also gives them an additional qualification. Students are encouraged to be innovative, thus enabling them to make a radical and visionary contribution to this sector of the fashion industry.
Deborah Minshall
Course Leader
BA (Hons) Fashion Contour
London College of Fashion
London
UK
United Kingdom
De Monfort University
De Montfort University is one of the leading modern UK universities for Art and Design. Students win prestigious national and international awards, gain excellent placements and go on to exciting careers in top creative companies.
The Contour Fashion honours degree at De Montfort University specialises in lingerie, underwear, corsetry and swimwear. This Intimate Apparel course is underlined with technical excellence. It was established in 1947 for the Leicester corset industry, and recently celebrated its 60th anniversary.
A high percentage of Contour Fashion graduates achieve relevant and significant employment in the lingerie and swimwear fields. Many graduates find their first job as designers, garment technologists and buyers for top brand names while a number of graduates work abroad for international lingerie and fashion companies, or run their own businesses.
The Fashion and Contour Design honours degree combines two exciting and dynamic specialisms. It is primarily an outerwear course with a contour structural underpinning with resulting applications in: performance and fashion sportswear, beach/cruisewear, plus evening wear and bridal wear design.
Students from both courses have highly developed and technically excellent skill bases from design concept, through idea generation and design development to pattern making, cutting, grading, and manufacture.
Gillian Proctor
Faculty Leader – Contour Fashion
De Montfort University
Leicester
UK
Vietnam
University of Architecture of Ho Chi Minh (HCMUARC)
The University of Architecture of Ho Chi Minh City was established in 1976. Its function is to train architects, urban planners, industrial fine artists and civil engineers. With its complement of 165 staff and over 4,700 students, the University offers four-year Bachelor of Architecture program and four-year Bachelor of Science program in Industrial Fine Art. Masters program and Doctoral research in Architecture, Planning and Urban Management are also available. In spite of being the new and fresh department in the university, students from Industrial Design Department have achieved various national and international design awards. The Vice Dean of the Industrial Design Department, Ms. Nguyen Thi Viet Ha believes that to achieve success in the Fashion Industry, students have to be in touch with trends but at the same time be creative enough to change and influence prevailing taste; and therefore, the Triumph Inspiration Award is a great chance for students to reinforce their skills and talents.
Address: 196 Pasteur St., Dist. 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Tel: (84) 08 – 3823 2571
Website: http://www.hcmuarc.edu.vn/
Vietnam
University of Fine Art (HCMUFA)
Hồ Chí Minh City University of Fine Art was originally established in 1954 as the Sài Gòn National College of Fine Art (Trường Quốc gia Cao đẳng Mỹ thuật Sài Gòn). After reunification in 1975 it was merged with the Gia Định National School of Decorative Arts (Trường Quốc gia Trang trí Mỹ thuật Gia Định, successor to the Gia Định School of Drawing set up in 1913 by the French colonial government) to become the Hồ Chí Minh City College of Fine Art (Trường Cao đẳng Mỹ thuật Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh). The institution was awarded university status in 1981. Recognized for its quality work and innovation in the field of both traditional and distance education, the University offers three-year College Certificate in Fine Art program, four-year Bachelor of Fine Art Education program, five-year Bachelor of Fine Art program and two-year full-time or three-year part-time Master of Fine Art program. Each year the University enrolls 450 new students in all disciplines. The university has trained many of Vietnam’s leading artists and each year it participates in many cultural exchanges with sister institutions overseas.
Address: 5 Phan Dang Luu St., Binh Thanh Dist., Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tel: (84) 08 – 38433454
Email: info@hcmufa.edu.vn
Website: http://www.hcmufa.edu.vn
Vietnam
Raffles Design Institute Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Established in 2006, Raffles International College (Part of Raffles Education Corporation) is the leading design and business educational provider in Hanoi and Asia Pacific with 3 universities and 20 colleges
A quality design institute of Raffles Education Corporation with the Singapore Quality Class (Private Education Provider) award and Case Trust for Education certification. Raffles Design Institute Vietnam is located along the education belt in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. It is Indochina's first comprehensive Institute for creative design education offering a full range of design programs at the tertiary level. The new 6-storey training centre houses state-of-art facilities like a Macintosh computer laboratory, broadband Internet access and modern classrooms. All programs are taught by our most dedicated team of international lecturers with extensive industry and lecturing experience in the field of design. This ensures that the quality of the programs offered in RDTC is the same as all the other Raffles Design Institutes school in Asia Pacific.
Address: 117 Nguyen Van Troi Street, Ward 12, District Phu Nhuan, HCMC, Vietnam
Tel: (84) 08 – 2226 8333
Email: contact@raffles-international-college.edu.vn
Website: http://www.raffles-design.edu.vn
Vietnam
HCM City University of Technical Education
Over 50 years of development, the Hochiminh City University of Technical Education has been well-known for its curricular diversity. The Advanced Study program in Garment Technology and Fashion Design Department develops specialized expertise in the student's individual area of study. The curriculum is structured to provide the opportunity to explore and analyze new ideas, and study industry related principles of design and construction as well as to apply industry techniques. The students from this department have achieved many awards both nationally and internationally and built a positive image of the young and enthusiastic designers who are creative and capable of working within all levels of the fashion industry.
Address: 1 Võ Văn Ngân, Thu Duc District, HCMC, Vietnam
Email: p.cthssv@hcmute.edu.vn
Website: www.hcmute.edu.vn
Vietnam
Hong Bang University International
Established in 1997, Hong Bang University is a Private University which was built to answer the thirst of skillful human resource. Facilitated with well-developed campuses, the university aims to innovate the curriculum to guarantee practical application into reality. The Textile Technology and Fashion Design Department in Hong Bang University covers various fields of the fashion industry. The department offers a comprehensive design education at degree level for dedicated and ambitious individuals looking for a specialist career within the creative arena of the fashion design industry. The graduates work as fashion designers, stylists, freelancers and creative managers in industrial companies in all fields.
Address: 3 Hoang Viet St., Ward 4, Tan Binh District, HCMC, Vietnam
Tel: (08)8114336, (08)8119837
Email: dhhongbang@hbu.edu.vn
Vietnam
Vinatex Economic – Technical College
HCMC Vinatex Economic-Technical College was founded in 1978 with the aims to train College levels, Professional Intermediate levels, Vocational College levels and Vocational Intermediate levels of all sectors such as: Garment technology, Fashion design, Business administration, Accounting, Mechanical engineering technology, Information technology, Computer network administration, Leather shoes technology, Electronic engineering, Industrial and Civil electricity, Mechanical-Electronic technology, Computer fixing and fitting engineering, Computer graphics, Official Informatics and English.
Tel: (+84)04.8257700 - Fax: (+84)04.8262269
Email: vinatexhn@vinatex.com.vn
Vietnam
Van Lang University
Van Lang universities - higher education establishments have branches, not owned by the State - to ensure reliable supply and service standards for training and scientific research in the field of engineering Art - technology, economics, humanities and social-art applications to meet the human resources of high quality and transfer the research achievements for economic development - social, Ho Chi Minh City and the country.
Training and re-training, fostering knowledge, improving professional skills of the fields of economy, trade, finance, accounting, foreign languages, computer science and applied science to contribute ... up a team of intellectuals, technicians and economic management has high professional qualifications and good quality to meet effectively the development of economic, science industrialization and modernization of country's
Address: 45 Nguyen Khac Nhu St., 1 Dist., HCMC
Tel: (84.8) 38367933
Email: tttt@vanlanguni.edu.vn
Vietnam
Cultural Arts College
The school has always focused on professional training and pedagogical methods for teaching staff; diversify forms of training, improving the quality of teaching, development of infrastructure; interest of promoting the learning and training of students .
Currently, the University has five professional science (Music, Arts, Theater, Culture and Tourism), with 14 in-depth training
Along with the training, the school also organizes scientific research, living seminars, scientific workshops with many useful topics, as well as a Department of Culture and Information building located in Long An province, with a program in management culture in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Tran Van Khe where he teaches traditional music for elementary school students in the city of Ho Chi Minh ... Especially in the three years 2007 – 2009 the school has implemented organizational culture classes- communication behavior (life community of public administration activities; Business Culture ...) for many organizations, agencies, unions residential areas ... and contributes positively to the campaign to build a more urban and civilized lifestyle in the city of Ho Chi Minh.
Address: 5 Nam Quoc Cang St., 1 Dist., HCMC
Tel: (84.8) 39250991 / 39250991
Email: info@vhnthcm.edu.vn
Website: http://www.vhnthcm.edu.vn/
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry
Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry (HUI) is one of the biggest technical and vocational education providers in Vietnam. It has 5 campuses. Annually, HUI offers the multi-discipline, multi-professional and multi-level training services to tens of thousands of students nationwide. With its equally qualified teaching staff of over 1,200 and hundreds of guest lectures, HUI is committed to enhance the quality of its training services. The students are also offered the supplementary foreign language and IT courses and many others in terms of interaction, and industrial behavior helpful to them in a modern working environment. Thanks to its industry linkage, they get opportunities to have internships at local companies and especially at foreign – invested factories where they are able to observe the latest technical advances, practice labor skills, and integrate it into modern work places. The university also focuses on professional training courses according to the requirements of the industry or localities where the students can improve their professional knowledge, practical labor skills, and operate the modern machines at work.
Address: 12 Nguyen Van Bao St. Go Vap Dist., HCMC
Tel: (84.8) 3894 0390
Website: http://www.hui.edu.vn/
Vietnam
Ton Duc Thang University
Established in 1997, Ton Duc Thang University is continuously developing, moving from a small-scale university towards its current position of a wide-expertise university with strong prestige. At present, the university has, in total, 26500 students studying in 23 training fields such as Business Management, Finance and Accounting, Civil Engineering, Electricity and Electronics, Applied Mathematics and Informatics technology, Applied Sciences, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Art, Labor Safety Science, Social Science and Humanities, and Foreign Languages. The university provides learners with educational levels ranging from specialized high school to post graduate. Every year, Ton Duc Thang contributes to the development of the society with 2,500 well-educated graduates, among 60 percent who are BAs in the fields.
In order to improve its qualities as well as to diversify educational products, the university not only provides domestic educational products but is also looking for collaboration with many foreign organizations. Many cooperative programs are currently running progressively in some faculties such as Electricity and Electronics, International Business Management, Hospitality management class, Chinese class and Industrial Art Design. Such collaborations open wide opportunities for students to get financial support. More emphatically, they enable students to do collaborative learning in some foreign countries and to practice their working skills in an international environment
Ensuring the target to become a research university in the near future, a network of 25 laboratories and 5 workshops was established, enabling students to practice various subjects in many areas such as Civil Engineering, Electricity and Electronics, Applied Mathematics and Informatics technology, Applied Sciences, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Art. The university is also well- equipped with more than 700 PCs and other facilities concerning research and education.
The library, organized as an electric one, includes over 500 computers connected to the internet, creating a complete information network. It ensures full load of global information in all aspects for students to access and exploit, meeting their requirements for good conditions to study and widen their knowledge. New books and other specialized materials are added yearly in order to satisfy the needs and requirements of both students and teachers.
In 2008, three important projects concerning the construction of the new campuses have been launched .i.e. Tan Phong campus – district 7, Nha Trang campus – Khanh Hoa province and Bao Loc campus – Lam dong province. Tan Phong campus was completed in 2010, providing high standard training facilities to 30.000 students as well as accommodation to approximately 3,000 students.
Address: 98 Ngo Tat To St., Binh Thanh Dist., TP.Hồ Chí Minh.
Tel: (84 - 8) 38405794
Email: dhtonducthang@tdt.edu.vn
Website: http://www.tdt.edu.vn/
Vietnam
Dong Nai College Of Decorative Arts
College of Decorative Arts, previously known as Dong Nai, Bien Hoa vocational schools was established to exist and develop in more than 100 years (1903-present). For over 100 years the school has changed names many times from school to training-scale industries targeted education and training. The school has gone through three periods: the period of France - the regime in Saigon (1954-1975) and the period of the unification of country.
It was not until 1964 (sixty years later) that it turned from a new vocational high school to developing into a professional engineering school -Bien Hoa.
Construction and development Dong Nai college of Decorative Arts is a training center of applied arts and advanced south.
From 2003 to 2006 the level of training was strengthened Preparation of human resources programs and more facilities, helped to upgrade the school into the University of Applied Arts.
From 2006-2010 it has been upgraded to the State University School of Applied Arts.
Address: 368 - 30/4 St.,Bien Hoa, Dong Nai
Tel: (84-8) 061.3816 820
Website: www.dongnaiart.edu.vn