ICMA projects selected in the annual research project competition and funded through the ICMA–UNAGE internal research grants:

ANIMAFANTASIA 2025 – International Student Animation Film Festival
(project director: Maria Modesta Lupașcu)

Applying Technical Solutions for Remote Ensemble Performance in Concert Production (Second Edition)
(project director: Dan Spînu)

Artificial Intelligence as a Partner in Visual Arts Research: Tools, Methods, and Practical Guidelines
(project director: Daniel Ungureanu)

Artistic Research in the Context of Emerging Eastern European Practices
(project director: Sarah Muscalu)

Balkan Interferences in Contemporary Music and Art: Contextualisations and Multidisciplinary Approaches
(project director: Ligia Fărcășel)

Choreographic Masterclass: The Martha Graham Technique
(project director: Lorette Enache)

Curatorship Beyond Exhibition Production
(project director: Cătălin Gheorghe)

How I (Ph) Did It: Research into Possible Ways of Preventing and Mitigating Dropout in the Doctoral School of Theatre, Iași
(project director: Călin Ciobotari)

Imperatives of Social Change
(project director: Andrei Timofte)

Invisible Pioneers: Reclaiming the Role of Women in the Romanian Avant-Garde – Case Studies
(project director: Oana Maria Nae)

Medea by Euripides: Ancient Tragedy in the Aesthetics of Contemporary Puppet Theatre – An Applied Research Project
(project director: Ciprian Huțanu)

Musicologia Mirabilis – International Musicology Conference
(project director: Diana Beatrice Andron)

MUSIC-INTER-CONNECT: Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Strategies in Theoretical Courses in Music Education
(project director: Mihaela Georgiana Balan)

Neuroplasticity in the Digital Age: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Creativity
(project director: Mirela Ștefănescu)

Persona by Ingmar Bergman: An Applied Research Project on the Actor’s Process
(project director: Octavian Jighirgiu)

STEM – Dance and Neuroscience
(project director: Sandra Elizabeth Mavhima)

SYNCRETIC – Tendencies and Experimentation: 35 Years of Higher Education in Contemporary Graphic Art in Iași (Fourth Edition)
(project director: Atena-Elena Simionescu)

The Infrastructural Turn in Exhibition History: Mechanisms of Reproduction and (De)politicisation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Romania
(project director: Cristian Nae)

Unstable Images
(project director: Andrei Cozlac)

Applying Technical Solutions for Remote Ensemble Performance in Concert Production: Extending the Network of Vocational Secondary Schools under the Aegis of UNAGE Iași
(project director: Dan Spînu)

ArtReal – Interdisciplinary Investigations between Performing Arts and Narrative Psychology
(project director: Ioana Petcu-Pădurean)

At the Margins of the Common World: Artistic Research on Public Art in Eastern Europe (1950–1990)
(project director: Dan Acostioaei)

Borders, Migration, Peripheries: Intersections in Contemporary Theoretical and Artistic Research
(project director: Oana Maria Nae)

Common Matters / Common Times
(project director: Cătălin Soreanu)

Constellational Modernism: A Contribution to the History of the Circulation of Ideas and Visual Motifs within Global Socialism
(project director: Cristian Nae)

In Situ
(project director: Lavinia German)

Learning Processes in Curatorial Exhibition Production
(project director: Cătălin Gheorghe)

Noetic Dimensions of Creativity and Augmentation through Neuroplasticity
(project director: Mirela Ștefănescu)

The Butler (after Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day): The Psychological Gesture in the Art of Puppet Theatre – An Applied Research Project in the Style of ‘European Bunraku’
(project director: Raluca Bujoreanu-Huțanu)

The Current Reception of Romanian Compositional Work: Festivalul Muzicii Românești (Romanian Music Festival, Twenty-Sixth Edition)
(project director: Florin Gheorghe Luchian)

UNAGE – Exploratory Research: Opportunities and Constraints Related to Artificial Intelligence
(project director: Florin Grigoraș)

V-CYBERCULT 2024 – AI Artistry Unleashed: Image Generation and Creative Synthesis in the Era of Advanced Neural Networks
(project director: Daniel Ungureanu)

ANIMAFANTASIA 2023 – International Student Animation Film Festival
(project director: Modesta Lupașcu)

Art and Technology in a Transhumanist Context
(project director: Cristian Nae)

Artistic Research on Public Art in Central and Eastern Europe: Technical Report on Decorations in North-Eastern Romania (1950–1990)
(project director: Dan Acostioaei)

Broken Fluidity – Catarina Carvalho
(project director: Lorette Enache)

Common Places
(project director: Cătălin Soreanu)

Composer and Professor Viorel Munteanu: A Travel Journal (Jurnal de drum)
(project director: Cristian Ungureanu)

Developing Specialised Technical Solutions for Distance Music Education: Creating a Network of Vocational Secondary Schools under the Aegis of UNAGE Iași (Second Edition)
(project director: Dan Spînu)

Educational Contexts of Curatorial Research
(project director: Cătălin Gheorghe)

Neuroscience and Creativity: Neural Connections in Artistic Creation
(project director: Mirela Ștefănescu)

Performance Conducting: Concept and Artistic Mastery
(project director: Bogdan Chiroșcă)

SYNCRETIC – 33 Years of Higher Education in Contemporary Graphic Art in Iași (Third Edition)
(project director: Atena-Elena Simionescu)

TexpoART International Textile Art Triennial (Sixth Edition) – New Realities
(project director: Ecaterina Marghidan)

Theoretical Research in Contemporary Design II
(project director: Oana Maria Nae)

Three Sisters by A. P. Chekhov: An Applied Research Project on the Dialogue between Theatrical Performance and Video Art
(project director: Octavian Jighirgiu)

Curatorial Research in the Age of Deglobalisation: A Critical Response to the Fluidity of Capital and the Politics of Risk
(project director: Cristina Moraru)

Developing Specialised Technical Solutions for Distance Music Education: Creating a Network of Vocational Secondary Schools under the Aegis of UNAGE Iași
(project director: Dan Spînu)

OPUS I–IV
(project director: Sandra Elizabeth Mavhima)

Practices of Critical Curatorial Research in Discursive and Educational Production
(project director: Cătălin Gheorghe)

PROJECTION – Artistic Research on the Relationship between Photographic Image, Screen, and Spectator
(project director: Matei Bejenaru)

Research into Visual Communication Strategies Specific to New Media
(project director: Cătălin Soreanu)

START OPERA – Don Pasquale, a Twenty-First-Century Perspective
(project director: Alexandru Radu Petrescu)

Style, Method, Choreographic Composition – Angelin Preljocaj
(project director: Lorette Enache)

The Exhibition as an Artistic Medium in the Former Socialist Bloc
(project director: Cristian Nae)

Theoretical Research in Contemporary Design: Socially Critical Connections between European Peripheries
(project director: Oana Maria Nae)

Valorising Romanian Compositional and Interpretative Work
(project director: Aurelia Simion)

Valorising, at National and International Level, Cultural Heritage Research and Restoration within the Conservation and Restoration Specialisation at UNAGE Iași
(project director: Bogdan Gavrilean)