The People's University of Amsterdam, also known as Volks Universiteit Amsterdam or Folk University, is a course centre for adults in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

. In 1784, the Dutch Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen was founded. Around 1900, there were about 20 so-called “Toynbee-associations”to English example adult education offered to the lowest social classes. Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam was founded in 1913 and has various study centres in Amsterdam. Since 2016, the Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam works together with the Amsterdam Public Library (

Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam The Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam (; OBA; English: Amsterdam Public Library) is an organisation of public libraries in Amsterdam, Diemen and Ouder-Amstel in the Netherlands. The first library opened in 1919 at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. ...

International Colleagues

The American

Chautauqua Institution The Chautauqua Institution ( ) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education center and summer resort for adults and youth located on in Chautauqua, New York, northwest of Jamestown in the Western Southern Tier of New York State. Established in 1874, the ...

, originally the Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly, was founded in 1874 "as an educational experiment in out-of-school, vacation learning. It was broadened almost immediately beyond courses for Sunday school teachers to include academic subjects, music, art, and physical education". In the Netherlands the Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam was founded in 1913 by the Maatschappij tot Nut van't Algemeen. Today the Dutch Association of Volksuniversiteiten (BNVU) has 75 Volksuniversities. In

Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to cultu ...

they are called ''Volkshogeschool''. The Freie Deutsche Hochschule (Germany) was founded in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

on November 19, 1935 as an exile institution. The teaching followed the ideological requirements of the popular front policy. The activities ended with the invasion of German troops in France in 1940. Since 1942 Scandinavia has the Folkuniversitetet and in 1959

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

founded the Ljudska Univerza Kocevje.Ljudska Univerza Kocevje in Kočevje, Slovenië
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References

External links

Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam
(official website)
Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam
(official website) {{authority control Universities in the Netherlands Schools in Amsterdam