University of Arts Targu Mures

The University of Arts Targu-Mureş is an accredited higher education state institution, as established by law (Annex no. 1.-1.1.). The University of Arts Targu-Mureş is engaged in education, scientific research and artistic creation, based on the regulations and established benchmarks of University Charter, in accordance with the national legislation (The Romanian Constitution, National Education Act no.1/2011 and other national laws and regulations in the fields of education and culture) and the principles of the European Higher Education Area.

The University of Arts Targu-Mures is currently preparing actors, puppeteers, directors, choreographers, impresarios, playwrights, theatre critics, designers, music teachers in Romanian and Hungarian. The University is also an institution that holds a theatre and a puppet theatre, which organise professional artistic performances in every season. The mission assumed by the University of Arts Targu-Mures focuses on the following:

• Organising graduate studies, master and doctoral training, ensuring the improvement of creators and specialists in theatre arts, music, decorative arts at the best quality requirements of a knowledge-based society and culture;
• Promoting creative activities for teachers and students in theatre arts, musical and dramatic arts, as well as scientific research in accordance with the requirements of national and international values;
• Ensuring multicultural, multilingual and interfaith interference to carry out teaching, learning, creation and research in Romanian and Hungarian languages, based on equality.

Priority objectives pursued by the University of Arts Targu-Mures now and in the near future are aimed at:

• Strengthening the position of the University of Arts Targu-Mureş in the scheme of artistic education in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe, so as to function as a centre for authentic art education, artistic creation and research of artistic phenomena.
• Enhancing the quality of the offered artistic and scientific educational services. To this end, we continue to develop strategies to raise the quality of education, promoting a policy that encourages personal excellence, professional development, attachment and loyalty to the institution. To the same purpose, we continue to support the arts and scientific research
• through a number of personnel actions, financing and logistical supply to the required standards.
• Expanding the supply of university study by obtaining licenses for new programmes in theatre, visual arts and music. The University also aims at widening the offers in master studies at postgraduate level. We would also like to broaden the scope of the doctoral studies by creating conditions for increasing the number of professors with the right of coordinating doctoral thesis.
• In the context of diversification the areas of studies in fine arts, decorative arts and design, we wish to establish the Faculty of Visual Arts, Decorative Arts and Design.

University of Arts from Targu-Mureș has gained a well deserved prestige in Romania and abroad because of a common effort and also because of assuming and carring into effect some European and universal principles, among which one can find the respect for the values of humanism, the belief in the equality of chances, the partnership between the teaching staff and students in the entire educational process, promoting multiculturalism, ideas of truth, good and beauty.

The focus of our entire academic community is the performance (regarding the didactic activity, the scientific research and artistic creation) and, in this sense, we are all prepared to overtake those moments of ‘testing’, either of financial nature, political nature or any other nature, through the competence and dignity that our teachers, researchers and students give proof of, but also through transforming the difficulties in challenges.

The fundamental paradigm of our university is that of centralising our objects (as well as our mentalities) on generating knowledge, the only relevant way we can twin tradition with innovatory efforts, freedom of ideas and progress. Arts, together with pedagogy and media communication are those grounds upon which an intelectual environment and a ‚chaste’ which, paradoxical, opens out to the others has been built, taking into account that all our achievements are dedicated to the world’s senses. To the spectator of today and tomorrow.