Welcome

docARTES is a doctoral programme for practice-based research in musical arts, designed for musician-researchers (performers, composers, etc.).

More than just stimulating and facilitating artist-researchers, docARTES provides a two-year doctoral curriculum, consisting of research and training. It allows doctoral students to develop their artistic qualities, broaden their academic knowledge and expand their methodological skills. This curriculum is supplemented by individual research supervision. docARTES also aims to create a topnotch discipline-specific research environment.

The docARTES programme is run at Orpheus Institute in Ghent, together with Flemish and Dutch partner institutes since January 2004. There are currently about 29 promovendi with very diverse backgrounds involved in practice-based research projects.

Since September 2008 the docARTES partners organise an international, English-spoken doctoral programme, still called docARTES. As founding member of the documa alliance, docARTES broadens its international scope by running its doctoral curriculum in close collaboration with the other partners. Accordingly, doctoral students will benefit from the international research environment resulting from this documa alliance.