The Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (IS PAN), is a leading Polish academic institution engaged in interdisciplinary education and research on arts, music, theatre, and film in historical and theoretical perspectives. As a research institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, IS PAN has a long history of international collaboration and the development of the research projects with the EU and non-EU institutions – universities, research institutes, museums, libraries, and archives. Since 1998, IS PAN is member of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (www.riha-institutes.org). In July 2025, IS PAN has been awarded Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2021-2027. Folllowing our international cooperation strategy, we prioritise long-term partnerships with academic institutions, based on compatibility of research interests, attention to high quality and inclusiveness of academic culture, and mutual support in strengthening the links between research, education, and innovation.
Director's Representatives for International Cooperation:
dr hab. Ewa Partyga, prof. IS PAN ewa.partyga@ispan.pl; +48 22 50 48 227; ul. Długa 26, 00-238 Warszawa, room 7A
mgr Emilia Switat; emilia.switat@ispan.pl; +48 22 50 48 223; ul. Długa 26, 00-238 Warszawa; room 6A
- International projects
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Current projects:
Artistic Exchanges in the Global Cold War: Eastern Bloc-Northern Africa, 1940s- 1980s (2025-2027, Arts and Humanities Research Council project), PI: dr Katarzyna Falęcka, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University; Polish PI: dr hab. Przemysław Strożek (IS PAN); partner institution: Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (dr Laryssa Chomiak)
Polish and Lithuanian Music in Global Perspective: Migration, Diasporic Identities and Homeland, Polish-Lithuanian project (2025-2027, DAINA 3, National Science Centre), Polish PI: dr hab. Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska, prof. IS PAN, Lithuanian PI: Prof. Dr. Rūta Stanevičiūtė-Kelmickienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius)
Early Music in Central Europe: Collaborated Research, Migrating Sources, Transregional Connections, International Visegrad Fund project (2023-2026), in collaboration with Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities (Budapest), Polish team: dr Irina Chachulska, dr Dominika Grabiec, dr Paweł Figurski
Musical and Liturgical Traditions in Medieval Poland and Hungary, in collaboration with HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest (2024-2026), Polish PI: dr Dominika Grabiec
Liturgica Poloniae: Catalogue of Polish Liturgical Manuscripts, NPRH project (2022-2027), PI: dr Paweł Figurski, international team members: prof. Teresa Webber (Trinity College, University of Cambridge), dr Erik Niblaeus (University of Cambridge)
- ERASMUS+
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In July 2025, the European Commission awarded Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) for 2021-2027 to the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Documents for download:
ERASMUS CHARTER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (ECHE) 2021-2027 - English version
KARTA ERASMUSA DLA SZKOLNICTWA WYŻSZEGO 2021-2027- Polish version
ISPAN's ERASMUS POLICY STATEMENT 2025-2027 - PDFCurrently, we are preparing our Inter-Institutional Agreements. If you are interested in Erasmus+ mobility programme, please write to emilia.switat@ispan.pl or ewa.partyga@ispan.pl.
- Visiting scholars and students
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Long-term research visitors 2024/2025:
- Jordan Lian - PhD candidate in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge - Fulbright research project 2024/2025
Short-term research visitors 2024/2025:
- dr Antonio Calvia, Università degli studi di Pavia (Italy), September 2024
- prof. David Burn, KU Leuven (Belgium), October 2024
- prof. Antonio Chemotti, KU Leuven (Belgium), January 2025
- dr Paul Newton-Jackson, KU Leuven (Belgium), March 2025
- Júlia Brümmer de Souza, Universidade da Região de Joinville - Univille (Brasil), April 2025
- prof. Calvin M. Bower, University of Notre Dame (USA), May 2025
- dr Hein Sauer, University of Zurich (Switzerland), June 2025
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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The MSCA funded research project in the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences:
Exchange and Creativity in Bavarian Missals, c. 900-1200, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (the 2024 PF call), researcher: dr Arthur Westwell, supervisor: dr hab. Paweł Gancarczyk prof. IS PAN
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences is willing to host new postdoctoral research projects on arts, music, theatre, or film in historical or theoretical perspectives. The 2025 call for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is open until 10 September:
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2025If you are interested in the opportunities offered by Institute of Art as a host organization in this programme, please email ewa.partyga@ispan.pl.
- IS PAN's academic staff mobility
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Long-term research visits abroad 2024/2025:
- dr Emilia Olechnowicz, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, January-June 2025 (Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship)
- dr hab. Przemysław Strożek, University of California Los Angeles, December 2024-February 2025 (Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship)
- dr hab. Przemysław Strożek, Japan, October-November 2024 (Japan Foundation Fellowship)
- dr Nicolò Ferrari, KU Leuven, Royal Library of Belgium, September-December 2024
- dr Anna Matuszewska, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, 3-months in the academic year 2024/2025 (Miniatura Grant, National Science Centre)
Short-term research visits abroad 2024/2025:
University of Oxford (Magdalen, All Souls, and Wadham Colleges), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Institute für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, KU Leuven, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, University of Loyola, Chicago University, BKGE in Oldenburg (Kunstschutz project), Archivio Storico della Biennale di Venezia, Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Dance Studies Association - University of Buenos Aires, UNICAMP - State University of Campinas (Brasil), Jon Fosse Archive - National Library of Norway, University of Westminster, University of Huelva, University of Johannesburg
- Cooperation with foreign scholarly institutions
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- Chorwacja: Chorwacka Akademia Nauk i Sztuk (Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti), Zagrzeb, Sekcja Historii Muzyki Chorwackiej (Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe)
- Czechy: Czeska Akademia Nauk (Akademie věd České republiky, Praga, Instytut Historii Sztuki (Ústav dějin umění AV ČR)
- Estonia: Estońska Akademia Nauk (Eesti Kunstiakademia), Tallin
- Francja: Narodowy Instytut Sztuki (Institut national d'histoire de l'art), Paryż
- Izrael: Instytut Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Hebrajskiego (Department of Art History, Hebrew University), Jerozolima
- Litwa: Instytut Historii Sztuki Akademii Sztuk Pięknych (Dailėtyros institutas, Vilniaus dailės akademija) Wilno
- Łotwa: Instytut Literatury, Folkloru i Sztuki Uniwersytetu Łotewskiego (Litreraturas, folkloras un makslas instituts Latvijas Universitate), Ryga
- Niemcy: Instytut Historii i Kultury Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej (Geistewissenchaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas), Lipsk; Instytut Herdera (Herder-Institut), Marburg
- Słowacja: Słowacka Akademia Nauk – Instytut Muzykologii (Slovenska Akadémie Vied - Ústav hudobnej vedy).
- Słowacja: Uniwersytet Komeńskiego w Bratysławie – Instytut Muzykologii (Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave - Ústav hudobnej vedy)
- Słowenia: Instytut Historii Sztuki Franceta Steleta Słoweńskiej Akademii Nauk i Sztuk (Znanstvenoraziskovalni Center Slovenske Akademije Znanosti i Umetnosti, Umetnostnozgodovinski Institut Franceta Steleta), Ljublana
- Słowenia: Słoweńska Akademia Nauk i Sztuk – Instytut Muzykologii (Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti - Muzikološki Inštitut)
- Stany Zjednoczone: Uniwersytet Harvarda (Harvard University)
- Szwajcaria: Szwajcarski Instytut Sztuki (Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft), Zurich
- Szwecja: Międzynarodowe Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej (International Art Moderna Museet), Sztokholm
- Ukraina: Instytut Teorii i Historii Architektury i Planowania Miast (Derżawnyj naukowo-doslidnyj institut teorii, historii architektury i mistobudowannja), Kijów; Muzeum Okręgowe w Winnicy
- Węgry: Instytut Historii sztuki Węgierskiej Akademii Nauk (Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Muveszettorteneti Kutato Intezet), Budapeszt
- Wielka Brytania: British Academy, Londyn; Birkbeck College, Londyn; The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust, Londyn