How do I launch, generate, maintain, and manage a transdisciplinary research study or initiative that involves different parties, especially regarding issues that include sustainability (recycling, etc.)? How do I involve different stakeholders so that a project has extra, added value? How do I manage the creative process in order to come up with as many innovative ideas as possible? Your Bachelor's degree in Transformation Studies qualifies you to contribute, coordinate, and mediate complex projects designed to address current change processes.


You have space to pursue visionary ideas as well as apply your creativity, imagination, and your love of experimentation! You will learn more in-depth about current transformations (digitalization, sustainability, etc.) as well as design tools, artistic and scientific methodologies and work practices. In addition, you will draw on your creative, transformative power to envision new solutions designed to address society's challenges.

The University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Johannes Kepler University Linz have partnered to create the inter-university Art x Science School for Transformation and offer a unique Bachelor's degree program.

• Recognize and analyze the interrelated areas of global challenges as a prerequisite for identifying and addressing relevant issues and for developing and shaping transformation processes.
• In addition to in-depth expert knowledge and a broad contextual understanding of art and science, the program also focuses on honing creative, social, and communicative skills.
• To work together in interdisciplinary teams and intercultural working groups.
• To conceive, plan and implement projects at the interface of art, science and society, both individually and as part of a team.
• You work on developing your creativity so you can apply it to transformative processes and come up with new ideas. You also learn to think "out-of-the-box" and devise solutions to meet future challenges. 

Prerequisites

In order to be admitted to the Bachelor's degree program, you must fulfill the following requirements:

• Hold general higher education entrance qualifications (such as an Austrian "Matura" diploma)
• Language certificate proving a Level B2 of proficiency in English
• Successfully pass the admissions procedure at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 

Register to Enroll and the Admissions Procedure 

You will be registering to enroll - and completing the admissions process - by officially applying to the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The overall application procedure will be conducted in English. See the links below for detailed information about the application procedure: