Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management (English Programme)
More than 20 years of educational experience in the field of cultural management
The Master's Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona has a practical approach and a broad international perspective. Its academic programme provides students with the specific skills and competencies necessary to thrive in the field of cultural management.
Boost your career in the cultural sector
The Master's Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona is designed to equip students with the practical knowledge necessary to develop careers as cultural managers and managers in various organisations within the cultural and creative industries. Furthermore, it prepares students to take on leadership roles in a constantly evolving sector.
Over the course of the programme, students acquire the skills to create and manage their own cultural projects. Its content, structure and teaching methodologies focus on transferability and practical application, ensuring that students can translate what they have learned into a professional context.
Accredited Master’s
This Master's degree is an official postgraduate qualification which has been adapted to the European Higher Education Area regulations, with evaluation carried out by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya) and National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA). As an official degree, you will also have the chance to initiate a research project and develop it into a dissertation to kick-start your academic career.
Competencies
At the end of the master's degree programme, students who take this University Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management will be able to:
- Offer an informed discussion about the theory of culture in the 21st century and its social effects.
- Distinguish the characteristic features of local, national and international cultural policies.
- Analyse the cultural fabric of a society and formulate diagnoses that identify its needs and opportunities.
- Design, programme, manage and evaluate cultural projects.
- Create, manage and lead interdisciplinary teams.
- Manage and gather economic resources within the scope of projects, companies and cultural institutions.
- Propose marketing and communication strategies in the field of culture.
- Know and apply new technologies in the process of cultural management, production and dissemination.
- Strengthen the sense of social responsibility and ethical commitment.
Teaching Team
Each year our international faculty is made up of more than 60 lecturers and invited experts from various countries such as Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Turkey and the United States, among others. Their academic background and direct contact with professional practice allows them to offer students a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective of the reality of the sector.
Students
The Master's Degree in Cultural Management offers the unique experience of an intensive exchange between students from different countries and continents and from different cultures, languages and religions. For the degree, culture comes to life in exchange and through communication. Cultural exchange is not just an academic objective, but a daily reality for each and every student in the classroom and at our Barcelona Campus. This is proven by the more than 900 alums from over 80 different countries that we have trained as cultural managers over the last 20 years.
Professional visits and master classes
Throughout the academic year, we offer a range of study visits to institutions, businesses and cultural organisations in the city, where students can learn in situ and first-hand from the people running them.
As a complement to the academic programme, students also have the chance to attend masterclasses given by professionals from prestigious national and international cultural institutions, and to discuss with the speakers the realities of working in the institutions they manage.
Practices
Internships in companies, institutions or cultural entities are part of the syllabus of the Master's Degree in Cultural Management. The degree has an extensive network of more than 500 active agreements, with prominent institutions in the cultural sector.
Moreover, students on the Master's Degree in Cultural Management can access the ERASMUS+ programme, managed by the UIC Barcelona International Relations Service, and apply for financial support to undertake an internship abroad.
Training 100% face-to-face, with two specialization itineraries
The Master's Degree in Cultural Management from UIC Barcelona offers two specialisation pathways: Management of Visual Arts and Cultural Heritage and Management of Cultural and Creative Industries.
A truly international programme with students from more than 80 nationalities
This master's programme is designed especially for young graduates who want to train as cultural managers at a global level, as well as for working professionals with several years of experience who want to hone their skills and improve their management processes and methods.
More than 900 professionals already make up the Alumni community of the Master's Degree in Cultural Management
Access the UIC Barcelona Alumni Ambassadors programme and ask your questions to UIC Barcelona graduates.
Continue your training experience abroad
Continue your training experience abroad
The Master's Degree in Cultural Management from UIC Barcelona provides you with the opportunity to earn a double degree thanks to the agreement established with the Master's Degree in Science in Arts Administration from the University of Boston. A programme through which you can broaden your knowledge and professional horizons by benefiting from the network of contacts and opportunities offered by a top American university.
Participate in an international academic exchange
At UIC Barcelona, we encourage the exchange and transfer of knowledge as fundamental pillars of a comprehensive education. Thanks to our network of international agreements, we offer our students the chance to carry out academic and research exchanges at prestigious institutions across America, Asia and Europe.
Extension of studies in Hong Kong
If you are interested in exploring the dynamic Asian cultural landscape, you can choose to do a study extension in Hong Kong. The UIC Barcelona Master's Degree in Cultural Management, in collaboration with the prestigious Chinese University of Hong Kong, offers you a unique immersion in one of the world's most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities, where tradition and modernity meet, making it the ideal environment for studying cultural management in a global context.
Presentation
Academic year 2023-2024: 15th edition
The University Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona is the only official Cultural Management programme in Spain taught entirely in English. Its eminently hands-on, international approach provides participants the tools necessary for working in the cultural sector.
This programme has welcomed students from six continents. The course content explores the processes required to offer cultural services and products from the perspective of entrepreneurship and leadership.
You will be taught by professionals from prominent national and international companies and projects. This will help make you a versatile, multidisciplinary professional capable of working in the realm of cultural policy, institutions and projects.
In addition to classes, the programme also includes visits to cultural facilities and institutions, as well as lectures and workshops led by national and international experts.
Objectives
The UIC Barcelona gives you the tools you need to become a cultural manager.
The objectives of the master's degree programme include:
- To offer a reflection on the theory of culture in the 21st century and its social effects.
- To provide instruction about the characteristic features of local, national and international cultural policies.
- To teach students how to analyse a society's cultural fabric and prepare a diagnosis of needs and opportunities.
- To ensure students can apply management tools to the subjects of financing, financial management, human resources, marketing, communication, scheduling and production in relation to cultural events.
- To encourage the acquisition of personal entrepreneurial skills.
- To provide instruction about the specific management requirements of each cultural area.
- To teach students how to evaluate cultural projects and programmes.
- To introduce students to professional practice.
- To encourage a sense of social responsibility and ethical commitment.
Who It Is Aimed At. Incoming Student Profile
This master's programme is designed particularly for:
- Recent young university graduates who want to receive training as cultural managers.
- Active professionals with several years of experience who want to improve their training in management and management processes and methods.
Students
Competencies. Outgoing Profile
The programme is designed to gradually equip students to handle the specific skills and competencies required in cultural management, including:
- Analysing a society's cultural fabric and preparing a diagnosis of needs and opportunities.
- Designing, scheduling, managing and assessing cultural projects.
- Creating, managing and leading interdisciplinary human teams.
- Attracting and managing economic resources in relation to cultural projects, companies and institutions.
- Designing marketing and communication strategies in the area of culture.
- Being familiar with and applying new technologies in the process of cultural management, production and dissemination.
- Encouraging a sense of social responsibility and ethical commitment.
Academic accreditation
Máster Universitario en Gestión Cultural por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.
Course directors and coordinators
Director
Christoph Pasour
crpasour@uic.es
Degree in Art History and Media Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and also Edinburgh University (UK). TV Producer. He has authored articles for newspapers and magazines on media art and cinematography. He was the project manager and curator at the Museum for Cinematography in Potsdam, Germany; commissioning Editor in the film department of the 3sat cultural television channel (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). He has also been involved in script development (fiction / non-fiction) for production companies in Berlin and Hamburg. He has been a producer/author on documentaries since 2005 for production companies in Berlin, Hamburg and Barcelona for broadcasters such as ARTE, 3sat, ARD, ZDF, RAI, YLE, TV3. He currently is the director of the University Master's Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona.
Coordination
Claudia Balboa Salas
cbalboa@uic.es
Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of the Basque Country and University Master's Degree in Cultural Management from the UIC Barcelona. She has worked as a cultural manager at the Cervantes Institute in Beijing and collaborated with various companies and institutions in the design of cultural projects and exhibitions. She also participated in the conceptualisation of the infrastructure development plan for Langyuan Station in Beijing, to transform this industrial area of Pekin into a space for Culture and Creative Industries the country. After her experience in China she returned in October 2018 to Spain, as director of the Rioja Wine Cultural Centre, a historic building linked to wine tourism. As interim civil servant of the City Council she developed the Master Plan and cultural, social and training programme for the reopening of the facility. In 2020 Claudia established herself as independent cultural consultant and she collaborated with the Langyuan New Times Culture in the definition of the cultural development plan and a new urban space for the Music and Performing Arts in Wuzhen. She also provides services to mono office architecture studio production of artistic projects, such as “I Want to be the Future: The Anatomy of Technological Seduction,” developed together with the Chinese artist Cao Fei, for the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Alserkal Avenue in Dubai. She currently coordinates the Postgraduate Studies in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona.
Teachers
Wendy Ramírez Simon
Society and Culture in the 21st century
Dr Wendy R. Simon holds a degree in Political Science by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a PhD in Contemporary Philosophy and Classical Studies by the Universitat de Barcelona. She is an associate professor at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya among others. She is also Executive Director of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’s Journal of Catalan Intellectual History (JOCIH) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Anuari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC). She is a member of the Institute of Law and Technology (IDT-UAB). Her lines of research include the democratic theory, Modern political philosophy and the crisis of contemporary democracies.
Miguel López-Remiro Forcada
Society and Culture in the 21st Century
He is a graduate in Economy and he holds a PHD in Philosophy from the University of Navarra. He has an MBA from IESE and he is the first Spanish graduate from the Getty Leadership Institute in the Claremont University, Los Angeles. Visiting Scholar and lecturer at University of California, San Diego. Collaborator of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Founding Director of the Museum of Navarra. He is the editor, with worldwide rights, of the anthology of texts by Mark Rothko, Yale University Press and Flammarion. Lecturer in the area of Arts at the University of Navarra. Lecturer at ISEM business school where he is a researcher on creativity and Management. In parallel he pursues a career as consultant of independent art, economist of culture, artististic entrepreneur and curator of institutions and collections of high prestige.
Remei Agulles Simó
Society and Culture in the 21st Century
Remei Agulles Simó is an assistant lecturer (PhD) at the Faculty of Humanities (UIC Barcelona) and collaborates on research projects at the Institute of Advanced Family Studies (IESF) at the same university. She holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Navarra and a PhD from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. She has published articles on service companies, family businesses and care within the home environment. She is a member of the research group SARX on Anthropology of Corporeality (GRC) and previously worked as a researcher for the Entrepreneurship Department at the IESE Business School (2006-2013). Her current fields of interest are care in the home, the human being as an independent being and corporality.
Diane Dood
Cultural Institutions and Policies
Diane Dodd is President of IGCAT (International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism) and co-founder of the European Region of Gastronomy Award that has grown into a World Region of Gastronomy Platform. She is also Regional Adviser for the global network IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies). She has been an independent evaluator for the Cultural Routes programme of the Council of Europe and editor of a number of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management publications for the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). She provided expert advice to Plovdiv and Valletta in the preparation for their respective bids to be European Capital of Culture. Diane has worked in the cultural policy and management field for over 20 years and maintains relations with a number of important Global and European Institutions including UNWTO, UNESCO, European Commission, OEI, Commonwealth, Asia-Europe Foundation and many others. She obtained her PhD from the University of Girona in 2010.
Danuta Glondys
Cultural Institutions and Policies
Dr. Danuta Glondys is an independent consultant and an academic teacher. Since 2010 she has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) and since 2021 a consultant of the European Committee of Regions, International Cities of Refuge Network and the City of Gdańsk assisting in implementation of the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award for courage and excellence in the promotion of freedom, solidarity and equality. Between 2001-2016 she was the Director of the Villa Decius Association in Kraków and in the period of 1993-1999 the Head of Culture Department of the Municipality of Kraków, where she created new municipal policy in the field of culture and the programme Krakow 2000 – European City of Culture. From 1999 until 2001 she was the Regional Director of USAID local government development programme. Until 2008, she was also the Chair of the Polish National Committee of the European Cultural Foundation. Between 2013-2018, she was a Member of the Programme Council of Genshagen Foundation, Germany and in the period from 2014-2017, a Member of the Board of International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), Norway. Appointed three times by the European Parliament, she was a member of an international EC jury , responsible for selecting and monitoring the European Capitals of Culture (2009 – 2018). An author of numerous publications and articles dealing with cultural management and intercultural communication as well as an editor and a co-editor of 16 publications dedicated to contemporary global challenges. A passionate and often times solo traveller, she has visited over 35 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Mohammed Hassan Elrazzaz Elrazza
Tools for Managing Culture. Funding for Culture. Cultural Project
Mr Elrazzaz holds a BA degree in Commerce / Economics (Cairo University), a diploma in Cultural Studies (University of Granada) and a Master’s in Arts & Cultural Management (UIC Barcelona). His career combines 10 years of expertise in the financial sector with 12 years of hands-on experience in the cultural field as the founder and mastermind of an active cultural community. He received the ifa-Stuttgart scholarship in the Mediterranean category in 2011. Since 2013, he has worked at the Secretary of the Union for the Mediterranean (UIM) as Coordinator of Regional Integration. His book ‘The Mediterranean: A Shared Heritage’ was published by EMUNI in 2017.
Christoph Pasour
Cultural Marketing. Audiovisual Industry Management. Cultural Project. Academic tutor work experience.
Mr Pasour is a TV Producer. He holds a degree in Art History and Media Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and also Edinburgh University (UK). He has authored articles for newspapers and magazines on media art and cinematography. He was the project manager and curator at the Museum for Cinematography in Potsdam, Germany; commissioning Editor in the film department of the 3sat cultural television channel (Germany/Austria/Switzerland). He has also been involved in script development (fiction/non-fiction) for production companies in Berlin and Hamburg. He has been a producer/author on documentaries since 2005 for production companies in Berlin, Hamburg and Barcelona for broadcasters such as ARTE, 3sat, ARD, ZDF, RAI, YLE, TV3. He currently is the director of the University Master's Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona.
Senem Tüzen
Audiovisual Industry Management
Senem Tüzen, born in Ankara and citizen of Spain, wrote and directed the Turkish mother-daughter drama Motherland (Ana Yurdu), her first feature film, which premiered at the 2015 Venice Critics' Week. The film has won 18 national awards, Best Screenplay at the 2015 Asia-Pacific Awards, two FIPRESCI awards (Warsaw and Istanbul) and was among the ten films proposed by FIPRESCI for the 2016 European Film Awards. She co-directed the narrative documentary Eat Your Catfish (2021), which premiered in competition at IDFA and won Best Documentary at the Istanbul Film Festival. She was also one of six international finalists for the 2022 Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Previously, she has contributed to various film and television projects, including Al Jazeera and Turkish state television productions, as a producer, editor and director of photography. She also worked as a script doctor for the Turkish series "Another Self" (2022 - 2023) on Netflix. Currently, she is a lecturer in the 'Master’s Degree in Film Directing' at ESCAC.
Sandy Fitzgerald
Funding for Culture
Sandy has over forty-years´ experience in the cultural sector, including: Executive Director of City Arts Centre, Dublin (1973 to 2001), board member of the Royal Hospital National Cultural Centre (1985 – 1990), later to become the Irish Museum of Modern Art; board member of the Dublin Film Festival (1988 - 1993); Executive Committee Member of Trans Europe Halles, the European network of Independent Cultural Centres (1997-2002). Currently Sandy is a co-director of Olivearte Cultural Agency delivering training, consultancy and project management across Europe.
Marc Simón Altaba
Legal Aspects of Museums, Foundations and Cultural Institutions
Cum laude excellent international PhD in Intellectual Property Law. XII Extraordinary Award of the PhD dept. at UPF Law Dept (2020). Advanced Master in Legal Sciences (Pompeu Fabra University). Bachelor in Law (Pompeu Fabra University). Predoctoral fellow by AGAUR, DAAD and Max Planck Institute of Munich, Germany. With publications in international and Spanish magazines specialized in Intellectual Property, like the International Review of Intellectual and Competition Law, or Pe. Magazine of Intellectual Property. Author of book chapters ("The right to transform and new technologies" in the book "Commercial Law and Technology" by Aranzadi Editorial; "Transformation of pieces of intellectual property and trademark law" for the book "Industrial Property Yearbook" by Tirant editorial) and of the monography "The musical creation and copyright" by the international editorial Juruá, among others. In the teaching field, previous to his incorporation to UIC, he has been an associate professor in UPF, the University of Barcelona, UNIR and ESIC. He has professional experience as a lawyer in intellectual and industrial copyright, and competition law.
Amilcar Vargas
Legal Aspects of Museums, Foundations and Cultural Institutions
Amilcar Vargas holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona and is responsible for World Heritage at Casa Batlló. His main task is the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, raising awareness of the Outstanding Universal Value and pursuing the potential opportunities of Casa Batlló's inscription on the UNESCO List. He is an international expert in World Heritage Management. His international experience includes academic stays in Canada, Germany and Mexico, conference presentations in 13 countries and several publications. He is a member of international professional associations such as ICOMOS and ICOM, among others.
Inés Martínez Ribas
Cultural Communication and Information. Cultural Project
Writer, reporter and sociologist. She studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the University of East London (UEL) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She graduated in Political Sciences and Sociology (UAB and UEL) and Sciences of Information (UAB) and she studied a Master in Journalism El País (UAM). She has worked as editor in newspapers such as El País, La Vanguardia and El Periódico; she was the press and protocol manager in institutions like ‘La Caixa’ Foundation and The Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), and she has written many articles. She works as a communications consultant. ‘Caribdis. En mar de nadie’’ (Ed. Distrito 93, 2020), her first novel, was finalist in the III August Dupin Contest Black Novel 2020.
Alfonso Gironza Marqués
Creation of Cultural Companies
Alfonso Gironza holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering-UPC (1999). He has a Master's Degree in Company Quality Management from the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya-UPC (2005) and an Executive Master's Degree in Business Administration EMBA-IESE Barcelona (2010). Since 2005, he has been a management consultant for industrial services enterprises. From 2003 to 2009, he worked as an internal consultant at IBM Global Services and, from 2000 to 2003, as a project manager at Deutsche Bank.
Rafael Valenzuela Garcia
Leadership, Culture and New Technologies
Social psychologist, Master’s Degree in Leisure Management and PhD in Cultural Management; member of the research group in Social, Environmental and Organisational Psychology. He investigates the use of time and motivation in leisure (playing music practice, physical-sports activity, citizen engagement). Based on the theory of self-determination, he analyses intrinsic and autonomous motivations, satisfaction of psychological needs (competence, autonomy and relationship), well-being, flow and quality of life. University teacher since 2006 in bachelor’s degree programmes in Psychology, with focus on social psychology and research; and in business schools, with focus on leadership, talent and performance in organisations.
Clara Laguillo Abbad
Leadership, Culture and New Technologies
(Barcelona, 1984) PhD in Philosophy, specialised in Aesthetics, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2018. Her field of research revolves around temporal discomforts in the context of digitisation and the investigation and experimentation of ways of temporalising dissidents.
She is a co-coordinator and teacher of CursO at EINA. Since 2019 she has coordinated the Master’s Degree in Digital Art Curatorship (ESDi-URL) where she also teaches. She also teaches at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology (CITM-UPC), and this year she is joining the team of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona. Over the last two years she has contributed to the website of the Technological Circle of Catalonia (Actualiza’t – FOCUS section), while co-coordinating the quarterly research programme of collective curators, (creating) Situations that takes place at the Centre d’Arts Santa Monica.
She has taught at the UAB (Philosophy, Nanotechnology), at EINA (MURAD), at the University of Barcelona (Fine Arts), in Blanquerna (Ramon Llull University) and at the University of La Plata (Argentina). For over 15 years she has been interested in what it means to curate, especially in digital context formats. She has participated in numerous processes of curating and mediation (CaixaForum), documentation (Joan Miró Foundation), classification (personal archives of artists such as Mercè Boronat and Manolo Laguillo), content programming (Lluïsos Teatre), montage (Foto Colectania Foundation) and cataloguing (Military Museum of Menorca).
Of her wide experience, the cofounding of the Nomade platform in 2012 is a highlight. Art and thought (2012-2015).
Interpersonal care is a main priority of her professional work.
Esther Belvis
Leadership, Culture and New Technologies
Esther majored in Pedagogy by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and she obtained her PhD in Theater and Performing Arts by the University of Warwick (UK). Nowadays, Esther is the director and cofounder of The Social Vim Collective, a creative study that develops projects with social impact for the cultural, educatie, environmental and humanitarian sector, for organizations like Telefónica Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Un or ‘La Caixa’ Foundation, among others.
Jordi Padró
Cultural Heritage Management
Holder of an undergraduate degree in Geography and History from the University of Barcelona. Consultant in the fields of heritage, museology and cultural tourism. Founder and director of Stoa, a consultancy firm specialising in heritage, museology and cultural tourism. Lecturer in a number of courses, university postgraduate degrees and seminars on cultural and tourism management and local development. Institutional advisor on cultural and tourism policies, museum programming and production, territorial projects aimed at promoting and educating about cultural and natural resources.
Manel Miró
Cultural Heritage Management
Graduated in 1985 in Prehistory, Old History and Archaeology from the University of Barcelona. FreelanceI archaeologist from 1989 to 1992. Specialized in 1990 in patrimonial management by the School of Heritage of Barcelona. Since 1998, he is the main consulting àrtner of the Area of Interpretation and Museographic Projects in Stoa. He has directed more than a hundred projects in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Peru. Lecturer and professor in more than 15 Spanish and Latin American universities. He has published articles about interpreting heritage and museology in different university magazines and he’s the author of the cultural heritage blog ‘Raining Stones’.
Ainhoa González Graupera
Visual Arts Management
Holder of an undergraduate degree in Art History and a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Barcelona. She has taken courses as part of a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism and earned an Advanced Studies Degree. From 2004 to 2016, she worked at MACBA as an assistant curator. She has also worked for companies specialising in the transport of works of art and exhibition assembly and collaborated with galleries and artists.
Antonia María Perelló
Management and Curation of Artistic and Cultural Heritage Exhibitions
She has a PhD in History of Art from the University of Barcelona and currently works as a conservator and collections manager at the MACBA. She used to be an exhibitions conservator for Barcelona City Council and taught on the master's degree in Cultural Heritage Management and Museology at the University of Barcelona. From 2007 to 2017, she lectured on Visual Arts Management as part of the master's degree in Arts and Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona, where she is currently responsible for the subject “Curation Management and Exhibitions”. She has given classes and talks at a range of universities in Spain and abroad, taken part in round table discussions and formed part of artistic juries and academic tribunals. She has curated exhibitions at the MACBA and has held her own touring exhibitions. Her exhibition Doneu-vos la mà i pugeu a l’infern (Shake hands and climb into hell), and the accompanying book, won her the ACCA Research Prize in 2017. She has written books and research articles and regularly contributes to specialised committees on markets and heritage at public Catalan institutions.
Valerie Miles
Publishing Industry Management
Valerie Miles, writer, editor and translator, was born in the United States and currently lives in Barcelona. She co-founded British magazine Granta’s Spanish-language project in 2003 whilst managing the publishing house Emecé, part of Grupo Planeta, in Spain. She also established the New York Review of Books’ (NYRB) contemporary classics series in Spanish during her time as associate director of Alfaguara. She has written pieces for The New Yorker, The New York Times, El País, La Nación, The Paris Review and Granta, among other publications. She is currently a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States for her translation of Crematorio by Rafael Chirbes, soon to be published by New Directions, for whom she has also translated works by Enrique Vila-Matas. Her co-translation and extended edition of Juan Eduardo Cirlot's Diccionario de símbolos (A Dictionary of Symbols) will be published by the New York Review of Books in 2020. Her translation of Esto también pasará (This too shall pass) by Milena Busquets was selected as a finalist for the Impac Prize in 2016, as well as receiving the PEN Translation Prize. Her most recent publication from Yale University Press is a study of Nobakov by Azar Nafisi, which gave rise to the author’s best-seller, Reading Lolita in Tehran. Valerie curated the exhibition Bolaño Archive. 1977-2003 at the CCCB in Barcelona, the fruits of extensive research into the writer’s private archives. She is currently involved in the publication and translation of Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares' monumental memoirs, for the NYRB. Her first book, A Thousand Forests in One Acorn presents a collection of conversations with some of the twentieth century’s most important writers. It was first published in English and later translated into Spanish under the title Mil bosques en una bellota. She a member of Malba Writers Residence’s honorary committee in Buenos Aires, alongside John M. Coetzee, Soledad Costantini, Christian Lund and Jorge Monteleone, and she was named one of the “most influential professionals in publishing” by the El Libro Foundation in Argentina.
José María Sanchis
Performing Arts Management
Jose Maria Sanchis Perales was born in Valencia. He holds a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona, is specialised in international relations and spent three years preparing for the annual national examinations at the Diplomatic Corps. He has been working in the cultural sector since 1998, first at the CCCB in Barcelona and from 1999 at L’Auditori in Barcelona in the technical department. From 2003, he was head of production for Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and worked on productions for Sonar Festival, Primavera Sound and Peralada Festival, among others. He lectures on the master’s degree in Management and Musical Production at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, as well as teaching Performing Arts Management at UIC Barcelona. He also regularly collaborates with different educational institutions such as the IESE Business School, Blanquerna, Pompeu Fabra University, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Deusto.
Armando Rotondi
Performing Arts Management
Armando Rotondi is an academic, writer, theatre practitioner and cultural manager from Italy. He is Full Professor and Leader of the MA Creative Performance Practice at the IAB – Institute of the Arts Barcelona (validated by Liverpool John Moores University). After a BA at the Federico II University of Naples and a 2-year MA at the Sapienza University of Rome, he achieved his PhD at the University of Strathclyde in 2012. He also gained 3 university professorship habilitations. Armando is author of several academic publications: more than 10 authored and edited books; more than 50 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals; more than 50 papers at international conferences, including 4 papers as a keynote speaker and on many chairs of expert panels. He is a founding member of INIT – International Network of Italian Theatre and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance. In addition, he is a member of many editorial boards and boards of trustees. Armando is also active in the field of European and international research project and grants. He was Project Co-Manager of the Creative Europe “Make a Move” project on art incubators for independent and non-institutionalised theatre in Europe at the IAB and is currently co-organiser of the EASTAP Conference 2024.
Claudia Balboa Salas
External Work Placement Coordinator
Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of the Basque Country (2014) and University Master's Degree in Cultural Management from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2015). She has worked as a cultural manager at the Cervantes Institute in Beijing and collaborated with various companies and institutions in the design of cultural projects and exhibitions. She also participated in the conceptualisation of the infrastructure development plan for Langyuan Station in Beijing, to transform this industrial area of Pekin into a space for Culture and Creative Industries in the country. After her experience in China she returned in October 2018 to Spain, as director of the Rioja Wine Cultural Centre, a historic building linked to wine tourism. As interim civil servant of the City Council she developed the Master Plan and cultural, social and training programme for the reopening of the facility. In 2020 Claudia established herself as independent cultural consultant and she collaborated with the Langyuan New Times Culture in the definition of the cultural development plan and a new urban space for the Music and Performing Arts in Wuzhen. She also provides services to mono office architecture studio production of artistic projects, such as “I Want to be the Future: The Anatomy of Technological Seduction,” developed together with the Chinese artist Cao Fei, for the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Alserkal Avenue in Dubai. She currently coordinates the Postgraduate Studies in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona.
Internship
Work placements are one of the pillars of the University Master’s Degree in Cultural Management’s curriculum, because they facilitate the students’ integration into a cultural company or institution, enable them to apply their knowledge and help them develop the professional competences a cultural manager requires. Curricular work placements are compulsory and are worth 12 ECTS. They are preferably done on-site.
The internship is based on an agreement between the University and the companies. See below for a few examples of the companies which partner with the Master’s in Arts and Cultural Management programme in UIC Barcelona:
Objectives
- Learn how an entity or company that offers cultural products or services works.
- Learn the overall process of executing a cultural product or cultural service.
- Become part of a work team and learn the work dynamics of the company or institution.
- Manage one aspect or part of the project or service according to previously set objectives.
- Develop initiative and responsibility in professional practice.
- Analyse and reflect on the work experience, make a critical assessment of the work carried out.
The academic tutor and the degree programme’s work placement coordinator will ensure that each student’s work plan is related to the objectives and competences the students should acquire.
Regulations
Professional opportunities
UIC Barcelona's commitment is to provide students with the best possible academic preparation. This includes placing appropriate instruments at the student’s disposal that will facilitate their work placement.
University Master's Degree in Cultural Management graduates acquire the skills necessary to work in the following fields:
- Management of cultural services or projects in the public sphere (on a local, provincial, regional or state level) or for public-private bodies: public authorities, museums, theatres, cultural centres, multicultural facilities, etc.
- Management of private companies that offer cultural services or products: film production companies; companies that design online cultural content; companies that manage heritage promotion projects; art galleries; foundations; companies that promote cultural tourism; theatre, film and dance festival production companies; companies or NGOs engaged in international cultural cooperation, etc.
Admission calls
Application Process Deadlines for 2024-2025
Second call (CLOSED):
- Deadline to submit documents: February 26, 2024
- Interviews with shortlisted candidates: March 4 to 7, 2024
- Results communication: March 8, 2024
- Deadline to reserve place: March 22, 2024
Third call (CLOSED):
- Deadline to submit documents: 2ns April, 2024
- Interviews with shortlisted candidates: April 8 to 11, 2024
- Results communication: April 12, 2024
- Deadline to reserve place: April 26, 2024
Fourth call (CLOSED):
- Online information sessions: May 8, 6:30 p.m.
- Deadline to submit documents: May 21, 2024
- Interviews with shortlisted candidates: May 27 to 30, 2024
- Results communication: May 31, 2024
- Deadline to reserve place: June 14, 2024
The Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management (English programme) 2024-2025 is full. If you wish to apply for admissions for the program in Spanish, please apply here.
Relationship between the Business world and the University
Sortides profesionals
Direcció d'activitats culturals · Programació d'activitats o continguts culturals · Assessoria i consultoria cultural · Comunicació i màrqueting cultural · Tècnic de museus i institucions culturals · Responsable de galeries i espais expositius · Responsable d'institucions turístiques i del patrimoni cultural · Investigador i docent · Gestor de drets de propietat ·
Gestor de projectes de cooperació cultural en l'àmbit internacional.
Gestió · Màrqueting · Programació · Polítiques culturals · Integració social · Finançament i mecenatge · Educació · Consultoria · Producció · Projectes comunitaris · Recerca i estudis · Planificació · Audiències · Contractació · Negociació.
Prerequisites & admissions
Application for admissions
To enrol for this course, please fill in the form by clicking on this link:
Entrance Examinations
Specialised entrance exam, once all required documentation has been received and approved.
Required documentation
Information about the documents required for admission to the Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management may be found by clicking on the following link:
Admission criteria
While all candidates who meet the access route requirements will be considered, acceptance will be determined based on the following criteria:
- Personal academic transcript of the earned degree
- Professional and academic CV
- Admission test
- Personal interview
Reservation and enrolment
Access routes
Information about the access routes for the Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management may be found by clicking on the following link:
Grants & financial aid
Grants offered by UIC Barcelona for master's and postgraduate degrees
Other grants
Financial aid
The UIC Barcelona offers the possibility of payment in installments to study for the Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management as indicated below:
- 20% of the tuition fee within 15 days after obtaining admission
- 20% in the 10days following the moment in which registration has been formalized
- 20% before November 30
- 20% before January 31
- 20% before March 31
Faqs
Master's Degree
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What are ECTS credits?
ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits are the units used to quantify all the activities the students carry out during the learning process: theoretical and practical class hours, study hours, seminars, homework, work experience and projects, exam preparation and exams or other tests. Each ECTS credit is equal to 25 hours of work. -
What is an Official Master’s Degree?
An Official Master’s Degree is a postgraduate qualification that is valid throughout Spain and in all European Union countries that are part of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). To gain access, participants must hold an undergraduate degree, diploma or equivalent or bachelor’s degree awarded under the new higher education system.
The University Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona is an official postgraduate qualification that has been adapted to European Higher Education Area regulations and whose quality has been evaluated by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya) and the Spanish National Evaluation Agency for Quality and Accreditation (ANECA). -
What is the difference between the Master’s and postgraduate degrees in Cultural Management, Museum and Cultural Heritage Management and Cultural Industry Management?
The University Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona has a heavier course load and workload. As a result, it provides a more comprehensive overview of cultural management and also includes a Final Master’s Degree Project and work experience.
The postgraduate degrees, thanks to their reduced format, are a great option for people who work and study or who are taking other courses. They are intended for students with a bachelor's degree, undergraduate degree or diploma, who are currently working and who wish to further their knowledge of key aspects of cultural management. The subjects that make up the curricula of the various postgraduate degrees are also part of the Master’s Degree curriculum.
The University Master's Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona is an official postgraduate qualification adapted to the regulations of the European Higher Education Area. Postgraduate degrees are, throughout the EU, specific to the universities that teach them. -
Is work placement compulsory? Can I have my professional experience recognised?
Work experience is one of the pillars of the University Master’s Degree in Cultural Management’s curriculum, as it facilitates students’ integration into a company or cultural institution, enables them to apply the knowledge they acquire during the academic year and helps them develop the professional competences required of a cultural manager.
Work placement is compulsory. It is worth 12 credits and is equivalent to approximately 250 / 300 practical hours, which may be completed during the academic year or over the summer (before the end of November). In Spain, work placement is usually unpaid. -
Do I need to speak Spanish or Catalan to do work placement in Catalonia?
The official languages of Catalonia are Catalan and Spanish, though the vehicular language of public institutions is primarily Catalan. UIC Barcelona recommends that you have knowledge of and learn both languages. Students interested in doing work placement in Catalonia must acquire at least a B2 level of Spanish between October and January of the year they take the Master’s Degree. Otherwise, the coordinators of the University Master’s Degree in Cultural Management will be unable to guarantee you a work placement agreement in Catalonia.
UIC Barcelona, through the Institute for Multilingualism, offers both on-site and online Spanish and Catalan courses outside the Master’s Degree timetable. -
If I enrol in the Spanish edition of the Master’s Degree, can I still choose optional subjects from the Master’s Degree in English and vice versa?
Students may choose three optional subjects, regardless of whether they correspond to the Spanish or English edition. These subjects may not be chosen in the event they occur on the same date and time.
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