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24 The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław is a multi-faculty higher education public institution with registered seat in Wrocław: plac Polski 3/4. The Academy is acting on the basis of the decision taken by the Minister of Culture and Art on the 30th of March 1946. The current name of the Academy is in use since the 29th of August 1996 ( Official Journal from 1996, no 100, item 462 ). The Academy is subordinated to the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and fulfils the legal regulations of the Higher Education Law (Official Journal from 2018, item 1668). Wrocław Academy is accredited by the Polish Accreditation Committee (PKA)  – the only statutory body in Poland re- sponsible for assessment of quality of education provided by higher education institutions. The Academy was founded in 1946 as a State College of Fine Arts. Destroyed during the Second World War, it was rebuilt with a substantial help from a painter, Prof. Eugeniusz Geppert, whose name has been added to the name of the Academy in the course of the years. The following decades brought changes in the structure as well as the dynamic development of our institution, which in 1996 was granted the status of the Academy. Today the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław plays a major role in the cultural life of Wrocław and Poland, and its extensive international relations extend its impact beyond the Polish borders. In the academic year 2021/22 the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław received Sub- stantial Equivalency by NASAD – the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, an accrediting organization Legal basis of the Academy General presentation GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE ACADEMY