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Welcome to Vasa Arbis!. The Swedish Adult Education Centre of Vaasa. Vasa Arbis is a place for happiness and competence where there is also room for being creative and making contacts. Vasa Arbis is maintained by the municipality of Vaasa and follows the law of Liberal Adult Education.
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Welcome to Vasa Arbis! The Swedish Adult Education Centre of Vaasa
Vasa Arbis is a place for happiness and competence where there is also room for being creative and making contacts.
Vasa Arbis is maintained by the municipality of Vaasa and follows the law of Liberal Adult Education. The institute’s main objective is to support life long learning among the citizens – a learning that strengthens the personality of the individual.
The selection of courses is planned so as to give current knowledge and skills in a changing world. Language – Music – Society - Health and wellbeing - Arts and handcraft - Elementary art education
FACTS ABOUT VASA ARBIS Founded in 1907 Statistics for the schoolyear of 2009-2010: - 3 873 participants in courses - 267 courses - 8645 hours of teaching - 55 hours of lectures and events
LANGUAGE • - Finnish - Russian • - Swedish - Spanish • - English - Italian • - German - Japanese • - French - Icelandic • - Sign language FinTandem • The national certificate of language proficiency • Language travels
MUSIC - Chorus - Music groups - Individual lectures for children and adults
SOCIETY - Special courses: - Nature, garden, animals - Navigation - Computer skills (advanced and senior)
HEALTH AND WELLBEING - Food & dinks - Exercise & movement - Dance - Other health courses
ARTS AND HANDCRAFTS - Art - Photograpy & movie - Handcrafts - Pottery & porcelain - Elementary art education for children
More information on: www.vaasa.fi/arbis Vasa Arbis, Kyrkoesplanaden 15, 65100 Vaasa, Finland tfn (06) 325 3501