LABA Firenze - Libera Accademia di Belle Arti

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LABA of Florence is an Academy of Fine Arts authorized by MUR (Ministry of University and Research). An Institute of high artistic education that has always focused on “innovative” paths, close to new technologies and involving the use of multimedia instruments. The Academic Courses, equivalent to the degree, are structured on 3 + 2 through the departments of Photography, Graphic Design & Multimedia, Visual Arts-Painting, Design, Fashion Design, Cinema and Audiovisual. LABA is a didactical network with offices in Italy and abroad. The institution in Florence has been active since 2001, with only fixed number courses (up to 20 students), enabling the almost 600 enrolled students the use of professional laboratories, equipped with multimedia and latest generation equipment, in the most optimal way.

Students come from all over the world and the Academy over the years has become a place of continuous cultural and ethnic exchanges, where people with different lifestyles and cultures, meet, discuss and verify their knowledge about art, creativity, beauty and harmony. LABA has always worked to create significant synergies, involving Foundations, Associations and Public Institutions such as Museums, Municipalities, Provinces, Regions; but it is mostly collaborating with international standard companies such as Peuterey, Alpitour, Dainese, Cartiere Fedrigoni, Alessi, De Longhi, Artemide that students complete the professional training course through the development of projects that concern both didactics and industrial production.

It is through the creation of ad hoc educational programs, the definition of appropriate formative subjects, the cooperation in research, that LABA and its partners made possible to have a continuous growth of the work developed and produced by the students, Laba itself constantly employs resources so to enlarge the company collaboration network. In recent years LABA has activated international synergies; giving even more strength to an education that is part of a system designed at European level, the European Credit Transfer System, useful to facilitate the student mobility, not only among Italian university faculties, but also within the European Community countries, with different possibilities such as a three-year training in Italy and the next two years in one of the EU member countries.The process of internationalization is also active in overseas countries, through the collaborations started a few years ago with the Stephen F. Austin State University and Angelina College (USA).