a collaborative project of:

Carnegie Mellon University
The Master of Arts Management Program
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Columbia College Chicago
The Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department
Chicago, Illinois

International Center for Culture Management
Salzburg, Austria

Sibelius Academy
Helsinki, Finland

Impresario, a project that will train future arts and cultural managers and allow them to share perspectives on problems facing the arts and culture worldwide, is an attempt to re-engineer cultural management education.

Society is using new technological tools to deliver education at a faster pace and in a more efficient way, and changes in the business environment have evidenced the necessity for an education that is, from the start, immersed in work-place reality. Cultural managers entering the field must be prepared to function locally, globally, and virtually. Impresario is not meant to substitute a traditional university with a virtual one. Instead, Impresario seeks to integrate and harmonize real academic and work exchange with virtual information, mobility and experience simulation that builds on the basic academic programs offered by the partners.

Impresario is designed to enhance and enrich the existing curriculum of the partner institutions and to offer new learning opportunities in a virtual environment through collaborative learning and teaching, exchange of students and faculty among member academic institutions, on-line courses, and access to an on-line resource center. Impresario also will serve as a platform for the transatlantic flow of ideas of students, teachers and professionals and serve as a model "think tank" for the exchange of information and cooperation on programs related to higher education. It will stimulate individual and group initiatives, create new synergies and increase life awareness on both sides of the ocean.

Impresario wants to be on the leading edge to train young people professionally in the field of cultural management.

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