People's University of Amsterdam

The People's University of Amsterdam (or Folk University) is a course centre for adults in Amsterdam. In 1784 the Dutch Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen was founded and 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 course locations in Amsterdam. Since 2016 the Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam works together with the Amsterdam Public Library (Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam).

The American Chautauqua Institution, 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 they are called Volkshogeschool. The Freie Deutsche Hochschule (Germany) was founded in Paris 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 founded the Ljudska Univerza Kocevje.

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