About the Master

RE:ANIMA is a two-year European academic joint master in Animation, focused on animation creativity, storytelling, artistic research, and values of cultural diversity, artistic innovation, and academic excellence. Designed in 2019 by artists, animation professionals and scholars from Aalto University, LUCA School of Arts and Lusófona University, it is the first joint master programme in the field of Animation, and the first to be granted the Erasmus+ funds from the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Its international graduate programme amounts to 120 ECTS credits, and is delivered by a consortium of partner universities:

• Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa (Portugal), the consortium coordinator.
• Aalto University, Espoo (Finland). Consortium member from the first edition until June of 2026;
• IADT - Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology, Dublin (Ireland). Joining the consortium from the fifth cohort in the academic year 2026-2027;
• LUCA School of Arts, Genk (Belgium);

With a strong emphasis on European cooperation and mobility, students benefit from a truly international learning environment, studying across three institutions to engage in research, development, pre-production and production, exploring the full potential of animation across different media formats.

FROM 2019 AND BEYOND

Although the first cohort of students should have started their studies in September of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic there was an agreement between the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, the consortium and the students to postpone its start to September of 2021. Since then, RE:ANIMA became a master programme of reference in the field, convincingly demonstrated by having students’ animated master projects selected for prestigious international festivals, such as Annecy, Animafest Zagreb, Anima and MONSTRA.

Despite the successful collaboration between the 3 original partners, Aalto will end its role as a main partner in June 2026 due to changes in Finnish national regulations. With Aalto’s departure, IADT is joining RE:ANIMA from the academic year 2026-2027.

IADT’s large experience in animation education, along with their positive and longstanding partnership with LUCA and Lusófona in the FilmEU University Alliance made it the ideal choice for the future of RE:ANIMA and to the wider mission of FilmEU to “build an European University of Film and Media Arts for the future of Europe and its cultural and creative sectors”.

Since IADT’s onboarding, RE:ANIMA went through an adjustment of our curriculum based on feedback from students and a self-evaluation on the first four intakes. These curriculum adjustments bring greater clarity in the terminology and focus of tracks and subjects, smoother progression of the students’ projects between the semesters and incorporate IADT’s own expertise in animation education.