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OPEN CALL
Proposals for research and PhD projects
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp launch their call for research and PhD projects starting in September 2027.
The application procedure consists of several steps. Below you’ll find the first deadlines for submitting your proposal for each type of application and school.
One- or two-year research projects
→ Conservatoire: 21 September 2026
→ Academy: 3 November 2026
Four-year PhD projects
→ Academy: 3 November 2026
→ Conservatoire: 10 November 2026
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15 okt 2026
Our research group coordinator Karin de Fleyt obtained the title of Doctor in the Arts and was appointed as artistic director designate, together with Michiel Delanghe for HERMESensemble.
Karin's research, ‘Perspectives on time in the music by Karlheinz Stockhausen: the experience of a performer’, was conducted at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, University of Antwerp, with the support of CORPoREAL. You can read about her PhD project here: Stockhausen (EN)
Together with Stijn Saveniers and Maya Verlaak, Karin made a new version of STOP, with open score notation and a new instrument group; live electronics. Read about it here.
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