About the school

You find Skeppsholmens folk high school on the island of Skeppsholmen, right in the centre of Stockholm. Some of the courses are connected to maritime activities, as the school itself with its vicinity to the beautiful archipelago of Stockholm and the seafaring of the Baltic Sea.

The school is politically and religiously independent and led by a board. Skeppsholmens folk high school is a free school form for adult education and offers three different kind of full-time courses: one general course on upper secondary level and two special courses – a musicc ourse and a boat-building course. There are also courses for immigrants and shorter courses in photography and writing.

The general course has different profiles, like art, design/media and psycology. Depending on earlier merits, the general course can be chosen for one, two or three years and give qualifications for higher studies.

The two-year music course covers a wide range of music styles from different eras and cultures. It provides a creative environment for unexpected meetings and experiments.

The boat-building course lasts two years and here one learns the basic skills of traditional boat building. When completing the second year, the students will have built a Nordic wooden boat and they finish the whole course with a maiden voyage in our archipelago.

The activities of Skeppsholmens folk high school are all based on humanistic and democratic values and a holistic view of knowledge. Learning is seen as a process. Skeppsholmens folk high school is a meeting cultural place!

Language: All courses are in Swedish.

Contact Erasmus: Theodora Damianou, Anette Clefberg 
erasmus@skeppsholmensfolkhogskola.se