The Southern Helsinki Adult Education Centre offers a variety of learning opportunities mainly for adult learners in the Helsinki area. Annually we have appr. 2000 students who attend courses on topics ranging from beekeeping to music to foreign languages.

We teach the following foreign languages: Swedish, Estonian, Russian, Spanish, Italian, French, English, Latin, Arabic and Finnish for foreigners.

The Centre is operated by The Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation (Kvs Foundation/Säätiö) which is a politically and religiously non-affiliated organisation established in 1874. It is an independent think tank on everyday learning. Our core expertise is in the fields of learning, innovations and communication.

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In the school year 2020-2021, three teachers teaching three languages took part in this project:

English - levels B1 and B2

Teacher: Marja Juhola

French -  level B1

Teacher: Rodolphe Le Clech

Italian - level A2

Teacher: Kimmo Kontturi

The total no of students in these courses was 42.

Read Marja Juhola's personal blog post about the project here.

In the school year 2021-2022, two teachers teaching two languages took part in this project:

English - level B1

Teacher: Marja Juhola

French -  level A1/A2

Teacher: Heidi Hiltunen

The total no of students in these courses was 25.