The course incorporates with The Octopus Programme that is a guided research-based educational programme that encourages artistic research and production-based collaborations across academies and art institutions; students and professionals; diverse presentation modes; and processes of research and documentation in different geographies. 

The course includes peer to peer educational secessions, online and class discussions, research field-trips and workgroups both in Tunis and Vienna, collaborative production-based workshops, and lectures. This semester the course also includes guest lecturers and curated presentations of the students/artists in both cities. This webpage is documenting the project: https://theoctopusprogramme.uni-ak.ac.at/  The language of the course is English. 

The first chapter of the programme is designed as a one-semester course “Spectral Encounters” that will take place both at the University of Applied Arts (the Angewandte) in Vienna and B7L9, Kamel Lazaar Foundation in Tunis as a pilot application. The course also incorporates guest lecturers and curated presentations of the students/artists. The course was designed to include peer to peer educational sessions, online and class discussions, research field-trips, and workgroups both in Tunis and Vienna, collaborative production-based workshops, and lectures. Due to the Coronavirus crisis, the course continues via Zoom sessions and peer to peer meetings. Furthermore, with ThinkTank 2020 Section of the Programme's website, which consists of  Idea-Logs, Intersections, Texts, and References/Links pages, accompanies the course.

The winning applicants and the students of the course are Julia Stern (DAE/TEX), Sophia Widmann (DEX/KKP) from University of Applied Arts Vienna and Marwa Manai and Younes Ben Slimane from Tunis.