REVIEWING OF YOUR APPLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS:
MEET OUR ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE & LEARN ABOUT THE PROCESS:
First Phase assessors:
Marika Vandekraats (chair of the admissions committee) and Gabriëlle Schleijpen (artistic director/head of program).
First phase: a broad pre-selection based on "read + watch only". Reviewing will be based on all components of the application that you have digitally submitted. Incomplete applications and applications not in the English Language will not be reviewed.
Second Phase
Interview A assessors (2025):
Bethany Crawford, Dr. Sebastian De Line, Vinita Gatne, Dr. David Maroto, Harun Morisson, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Isabelle Sully.
Interview A: this entails an in-depth (online) interview with one of the above mentioned assessors, whereby, next to a hopefully interesting dialogue around your artistic research interests, attention will be paid to your English Language skills. Feel free to bring your own questions/concerns on board!
Interview B assessors (2025):
Nash Caldera, Iliada Charalambous, Raphael Daibert, Leon Filter, Aziza Harmel, Sonia Kazovsky, Raffia Li, Dina A. Mohamed.
Interview B: you will be invited to engage in an in-depth (online) conversation with another assessor. The conversation will depart from your application and look into potential synergies with the DAI curriculum. Whereby, if desired, some attention can be paid to the joy as well as the challenges of living and studying together within the Roaming Academy (emphasis on roaming). Feel free to bring your own questions/concerns on board!
Interview C:
In exceptional cases when, for whatever reason, the outcome of the Admissions Trajectory can not be fixed after two interviews, you may be invited to a third and final interview.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE INTERVIEWS:
We see the various stages as the hopeful beginning of a fruitful and potentially longterm dialogue between DAI + the wider DAI community, and you, prospective member of our student body.
We will not only have questions for you to respond to, we also heartily extend you the invitation to bring up your own questions (as far as they have not been answered by our website) about the DAI's ways of studying and living together.
COMMUNICATION ABOUT THE OUTCOMES:
After the first phase it may take some time before we can inform you via e-mail if you have been selected or not have been selected for the second phase (the interviews) of the Admissions process.
Applications from candidates eligible to apply for the ArtEZ and Holland Scholarships will be processed with top priority so that the decision will be taken well before the deadline of May 1, 2025.
Candidates will first be invited for only one interview. After the first interview it may take a few days before we can inform you via e-mail if you are selected or not selected for the second and final interview.
It may take between three days and three weeks after the second interview before we can inform you via e-mail if you are invited to enroll in the 2025-2027 academic study trajectory (depending on the number of applications that have to be processed !).
Every year there is a small group of applicants whom we can anyway only accept for the year thereafter, due to the number of positive evaluations. Currently this would mean that you will be invited to enroll for 2026-2028 ( beginning Fall 2026).
Should there be a cancellation within the cohort for 2025-2027 we will immediately inform the first person on this wait list and offer them the placement starting Fall 2025.
ADDITIONAL SESSION WITH OUR FUNDING COUNSELLOR :
After having been accepted, but still prior to your official enrollment you will be invited to a combined interview/coaching session with our funding counsellor Laura Alexander. Please prepare yourself by reading our section on Finance. Ahead of the conversation you will receive an e-mail with some questions to prepare the counsellor for this meeting. This is the moment to share your financial plan for the upcoming two years and/or to share specific personal questions that deal with DAI's modus operandi in relation to accessibility, health issues or any other personal matters. The conversation may offer a good moment for yourself to decide if it is realistic to enrol in September 2025. Some people may need another year to arrange their funding and other practical matters.
!!! ONLY AFTER YOUR OFFICIAL ENROLMENT WE CAN GUARANTEE YOUR PLACEMENT !!!
If we are all on the same page and positive about you joining us for the academic years 2025-2026 you must confirm your placement a soon as possible.
THE ROLE OF THE ARTEZ UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS:
Please note that the artistic-academic decision to accept someone into our program rests entirely with the DAI's Admissions Committee, but each of DAI's requests for official admittance/enrollment will be checked by the ArtEZ Student Affairs Department and validated by the Central Exam Committee of ArtEZ University of the Arts.
ArtEZ University of the Arts (not DAI !!) will ask you to send in copies of your official documents such as a copy of your passport and your BA (or higher) certificate. A diploma evaluation will be part of the formalities conducted by ArtEZ .
Please re-read our Admissions Requirements page to learn more about admission without BA.
Very important to note as well: the awarding of the ArtEZ and NL scholarships is also centrally organised by ArtEZ University of the Arts in the service of all its educational programs (so not only DAI). Thus, both scholarships come with a highly competitive selection process and we strongly recommend you to think of a (financial) PLAN B in case you are not among the small group of lucky awardees.