Lieksa Adult Education Centre

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Lieksa Adult Education Centre – Lieksan kansalaisopisto – provides a wide range of affordable educational courses for adults. The Centre also fulfills an important cultural and community role.

During an academic year, up to 1,000 people study at the Centre. Annually, the Centre offers approximately 100 different courses in arts, music, literature, local history, physical education, languages, health and wellbeing, and various practical skills such as handicrafts, computing, cooking, and many more.

You  can view our courses online at https://uusi.opistopalvelut.fi/lieksa or pick up a printed course booklet  at the City's Customer Service Point at Pielisentie 3, in the City Library, and on the supermarkets’ notice boards.

The Academic Year 2024-2025 starts on 9 September 2024.

Online registration for the courses starts on our course website on 23 August 2024 at 6 p.m.   

Registration by phone, available in Finnish and English, begins on 26 August 2024 and continues until the start of the courses. Phone registration is open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  at the number +358 40 104  4106. You can also register in person at our office (Kansalaisopiston toimisto) at Pielisentie 9–11 (Lieksa Cultural Centre building, known as Kulttuurikeskus) on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  It is also possible to register after the course has started if there are still available places. Students are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information in English about registration, payment, discounts etc., visit the course website under the section Kielivalinta/Languages → in English→ help OR click here: https://uusi.opistopalvelut.fi/lieksa/en/help/

STAFF AND CONTACT INFORMATION

The permanent employees of the Centre include a principal, an office secretary, and a planning teacher. Throughout the year, the Centre employs around 50 teachers in various subjects.

E-mail addresses for the permanent staff follow the format: firstname.surname@lieksa.fi.

**Mr Asko Saarelainen, Principal, Licentiate of Philosophy**

Tel. +358 40 1044 111

• Management of the Centre, grants of the Department of Cultural Services, exhibitions in Lieksa Cultural Centre
• Teaching: local history.

**Ms Ritva Malinen,  office secretary**
Tel. +358 40 1044 106

• Customer service and payments

**Ms Inna Turpeinen, Planning Teacher, Master of Arts**
 

Tel. +358 40 1044 108

• Planning of language, computor and physical education courses, development of language teaching

• Teaching: English, Russian and Finnish as second language

Office address: Kulttuurikeskus, Pielisentie 9-11, 2nd floor, 81700 Lieksa (open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.)

Postal address: Kansalaisopisto, PL 41, 81701 Lieksa

Employees email address: firstname.surname@lieksa.fi

Website of the Lieksa Adult Education Centre: www.lieksa.fi/kansalaisopisto

Facebook: www.facebook.com/lieksan.kansalaisopisto