CIRRUS is a Nordic-Baltic network of Art and Design higher education. There are 22 excellent art and design schools from the Nordics and the Baltics in the circle of this cooperation. The central activities of the partner institutions are art and design, including innovative activities, technical development and artistic practices.

Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Finland

Art Academy of Latvia

Latvia

Design School Kolding

Denmark

Estonian Academy of Arts

Estonia

Iceland University of the Arts

Iceland

Konstfack

Sweden

Royal Danish Academy

Denmark

Kristiania University College – Westerdals Department of Communication and Design

Norway

LAB University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design and Fine Arts

Finland

Linnaeus University

Sweden

Lund University – School of Industrial Design

Sweden

Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Faculty of Architecture and Design

Norway

Oslo National Academy of Arts

Norway

Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Norway

OlsoMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Norway

Pallas University of Applied Sciences

Estonia

Umeå Institute of Design

Sweden

University of Lapland

Finland

University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design

Norway

University of Gothenburg, HDK - Academy of Design & Crafts

Sweden

Vilnius Academy of Arts

Lithuania

The Swedish School of Textiles University of Borås

Sweden

2026 Meeting

Erasmus+ BIP Designing Memory: Objects for Difficult Histories

N+ intensive course: Spatial Adventures: Design for Transitions

The Ceramic Symposium Design & Wood-Firing III,  3 ECTS, Estonia

Poster Design Summer School 2026 in Lithuania, apply by May 17, 2026

Future meetings of CIRRUS

CIRRUS Network Opens Call for New Members, 2027.

CIRRUS Product Design Teachers Meeting will take place on 15–17 April 2026 in Tartu, Estonia

Logo Design / City Branding for a Port-city

Deep Time and Geobiological Design | Exploring Stone hosted by Vilnius Academy of Arts in Nida, Lithuania

CIRRUS Leadership Meeting. March 25 – 27 (28), 2026. Reykjavik, Iceland

CALL for project applications to Nordplus Higher Education Programme through CIRRUS network OPEN!

Viscom in the North – Network meeting October 29–31, 2025 took place in Oslo

FIRE & FORM. EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE

Workshop: Tableware and Utensil Design with Pierre Foulonneau

Postdoctoral position in Design, Linnaeus University

CIRRUS Network Meeting: Making… Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University

“DESIGN & WOOD FIRING II”

CIRRUS Nordplus Higher Education funding 2025/26 results

CIRRUS board elections. Period: 2025-2028. Deadline to apply: September 4, 2025 at 12.00 CEST

CIRRUS network opens a call for new members. Apply due 4 September, 2025

CIRRUS Poster Design Summer School in Lahti, Finland, apply by 8.5.

Artistic Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, Lund University, LTH hiring

Future meetings of CIRRUS

Creating Systemic Change

CIRRUS Leadership meeting in Tallinn, EKA. April 2-4, 2025

“Dreaming of the Endless Sea with Ingrid Van der Wacht”, apply due Jan 6, 2025

CALL for CIRRUS projects for Nordplus Higher Education Programme 2025

VR Typography: Words for Peace – Equality. Nordic-Baltic Network of Art and Design Higher Education.

Jop opening: HDK

CIRRUS network meeting Design and Artistic Research. Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation.

Nordplus Intensive course, summer 2024 in Estonia – Low-tech Footwear Techniques Inspired by Heritage

CIRRUS/Nordplus intensive course: DESIGN & WOOD FIRING (Ceramics Workshop)

CIRRUS network meeting 2024. November 6 – 8, Copenhagen

CIRRUS board met in Copenhagen to plan the autumn CIRRUS meeting

Call for new partners in CIRRUS: deadline August 30, 2024

CIRRUS network received 123 410 EUR from Nordplus for 2024/2025

Inspire the Change

CIRRUS Leadership Meeting 2024

EKA is hosting CIRRUS network graphic designers seminar “What is Research?”

Design for Happiness

CIRRUS annual network meeting Helsinki, Aalto Arts! For teachers, leaders, coordinators: September 27-29, 2023

CIRRUS/Nordplus intensive summer course in Tallinn, Estonia – Wearable 3D Printed Footwear.

Innovation in Healthcare: CIRRUS/Nordplus 5-day workshop in Tallinn: September 18 – 22, 2023

Nordic Creactivist Mycorrhiza

CIRRUS/Nordplus intensive summer course in Tallinn, Estonia – Wearable 3D Printed Footwear.

Call for CIRRUS Secretariat 2024 – 2027. Deadline August 23

Open posts, UiD

Creative workshop by Boris Belin in Vilnius on March 6-10, 2023

Open posts, EKA

Designers for Peace 3 / VR Typography: Words for Peace: Sustainability

Open posts: HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg

Express course in Lithuania: Bronze casting workshop – Bell casting

Register now: CIRRUS Leadership Meeting in AHO, Norway. March 29 – 30, 2023

A More Sustainable Life

VR Typography: Words for Peace Part 1: Democracy

Job opening: Professor in University of Bergen

CIRRUS Leadership meeting online on October 14, 2022

MATERIAL NARRATIVES in Vilnius

FULL! CIRRUS board invites our members to be part of an inspiration programme, apply now!

Bio-Integrated Design: Cirrus Intensive on the coastline of Saaremaa Island

INNOVATION and DIGITAL REALITY

FREEDOM (ceramics wood firing workshop)

CIRRUS intensive course

Open lecture on Zoom: professor and designer Eia Radosavljevic

Join the SDSI study courses as a walk-in participant

CIRRUS online meeting hosted by LMA, March 24-25, 2022

CIRRUS network meeting 2022, March 24 – 25

CIRRUS against Russian invasion to Ukraine

CIRRUS annual network meeting for Teachers, Leaders and Coordinators: September 27-20, 2023

PhD positions in AHO

Open posts: HDK-Valand

CIRRUS/Nordplus call for projects 2022

CIRRUS board elections. Period: 2022-2025. Deadline to apply: February 15, 2022

Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation Hiring a Head of Institute at Institute for Visual Design

CIRRUS network meeting: March 23 – 25, 2022

new CIRRUS express course at Art Academy of Latvia / Ritual 26 August – 4 September, 2021

CIRRUS express course by VDA

Umeå Institute of Design: new leadership

CIRRUS Summer School 2021

Innovation in Healthcare – 2021

AHO: open posts

Lahti Green Design Week

CIRRUS Talk 4: The SWITCH: Adapting design education to the virtual classroom

Open lecture: Marie Absolonova (CAMPER). March 31, 11-12 AM/EET

ERKI Fashion Show extended deadline

CIRRUS network meeting. March 17, 18, 2021. Hosted online by EKA & CIRRUS board

EXPRESS: Digital Weaving at University of Bergen

CIRRUS TALK vol 2. Online Admission

CIRRUS TALKS: CLOSED BORDERS. September 29

CIRRUS Leadership meeting May 27, 2020

POSTPONED: CIRRUS annual network meeting and Teachers seminar. March 18 – 20, 2020

CIRRUS express: Stories of our clothes (textile workshop)

Overprint II

Appearance of Things

Behaviour and Transformation /CIRRUS

The Disaster Artist

Conversation at Blönduós /CIRRUS

Urban Space Gaming workshop

FULL! The seats have been taken. Thank you for your interest in using CIRRUS for EKA Design Hackathon

CIRRUS 2018 Oslo Gallery

New CIRRUS express in Lithuania, March 12 – 16, 2018

6 seats open to an intensive course in Lapland, 5.2 – 9.2.2018

Visual Narrative: 20-24.11.2017, Vilnius Academy fo Arts

Express course: Printmaking on textile: process and methods

CIRRUS express in Vilnius, May 29 – June 3

Estonian Academy of Arts Summer Academy

CIRRUS express: LIKE A RUSTY NAIL ON A SHINY BLACK MERCEDES

Wood Firing. Anagama Summer course in HDK

Express course: The Text, the Body, the Book, March 20th –23 rd, 2017

Garage 48 Hardware & Arts 2017

Open Call: TEACHERS SEMINAR 2016/17

University of Lapland network meeting gallery, 24.-26.2.2016

CIRRUS meeting University of Lapland: February 24 – 26, 2016 rectors, coordinators, teachers

CIRRUS Teachers Seminar “Ways of Drawing”, Oslo, 22.01.2015

CIRRUS meeting 2015

CIRRUS Teachers seminar, AHO & KHIO, January

CIRRUS 2014 teachers, heads, coordinators meetings in Konstfack, Stockholm

CIRRUS meetings in Vilnius Academy of Arts, February 15 – 17, 2017