Type of organisation (legal status, main areas and type of activity)

Kashubian Folk High School (KFHS) runs its business within Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie (Kashubian and Pomeranian Association), a registered association of NGO-NPO type. The pedagogic supervision over KFHS is held by the regional Department of Education in Gdańsk (KFHS is registered in the group of non-public educational institutions).

1 full-time employed staff members at KFHS and 6 no full-time employed.

Evidence of experience of the organisation of the women’s employment issues and experience in international co-operation

Statutory aims of Kashubian Folk High School functioning involve educational and cultural activities for Kashubian and Pomerania regions development.
The main objectives are:

stimulating of the local democracy development and civic education;

arranging of the projects connected with European integration;

cultural education and cultivating of the modern regionalism;

environmental education and sharping of the balanced eco-development;

educational projects for rular communities – mainly at the level self-government.

Many of the projects are executed together with foreign partners – coming both from European Union (e.g. Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden) and the Central and Eastern Europe (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Hungary). As forms of our activity are similar to those carried out in Swedish folkhögskolor, Kashubian Folk High School often co-operates with such institutions..