KulturKontakt Austria (KKA)

is a European competence and resource centre for education, culture and the arts, focusing geographically on Austria, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. KKA operates as an Austrian institution on behalf of and supported by the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. The core areas of activity of this non-profit organisation are cultural cooperation, arts sponsorship, cultural education in schools, and educational cooperation. Over 60 staff members implement KKA’s multifaceted programmes.
In its work, KKA is committed to the fundamental principles of educational and cultural policy formulated at European level, namely lifelong learning, diversity and inclusion. Based on these principles, KKA designs its activities and programmes with the objective of facilitating equal access to education, culture and the arts for all.

Sponsors/Clients

The principal funding body of KulturKontakt Austria is the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK). KulturKontakt Austria is also supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) in the context of Austrian Development Cooperation and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF).

Competences

KKA has more than twenty years of experience in cultural and educational cooperation with Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 

decades of competence in shaping cultural education in Austria’s schools, 

well-founded expertise in establishing cooperation between artists, cultural institutions and commercial organisations, 

in-depth knowledge of the current challenges to bemet by education and culture in the Austrian and European contexts, 

comprehensive know-how in dealing with processes of change in education and culture in transformation societies (management of change) and 

wide-ranging experience working in national and international networks (educational and cultural institutions, initiatives and experts).

Resources

KKA’s resources include high-quality and comprehensive programmes for a variety of target groups in education, culture and the arts, 

sustainable platforms for exchange in the area of cultural and educational policy between artists, persons working in the cultural field and education experts from Austria, the European Union and Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 

finely tuned packages of measures for the promotion, support and implementation of educational and cultural programmes in Austria and abroad ,

a comprehensive range of high-quality consultation services and information relating to cultural education and sponsorship and 

a network of »k-education« offices with locations in Eastern and South Eastern Europe for the planning and implementation of systemic education programmes.