The Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek is an artistic-teaching and scientific-teaching institution of higher education founded in 2018. It is an institution which sets trends and changes perspectives. It is open to different types of students, continuously encouraging the development of their interests.

The Academy is an institution of higher education which organises and runs university study programmes - undergraduate, graduate and specialist study programmes of visual arts, music, theatre, applied arts, media culture, cultural management, creative therapies, public relations and communication science. It stimulates and promotes scientific, educational and artistic work in several fields.

Since 2023, the development strategy of the Academy has included the guidelines for the improvement of arts and culture sustainability in terms of the following activities: teaching and learning, scientific and artistic research, business strategy, artistic and cultural practice as well as the active inclusion of the latest trends in the field of new technologies.

Our MISSION is to promote the values of higher education following in the European artistic and humanistic tradition by organising top artistic, scientific and educational programmes while simultaneously keeping and preserving cultural, artistic and regional characteristics and creating a stimulating environment for the personal affirmation of students, professors and all employees.

Our VISION is to become the leading regional institution of higher education in the fields of artistic practice and theory, cultural studies and creative industries by developing general and professional skills and competences of students that will enable them to take part in the labour market and prepare them for an active role in the development of a creative and tolerant society.