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Profile Open Universiteit

The Open Universiteit in the Netherlands develops, provides and promotes, in collaboration with networks and alliances, innovative higher distance education of top quality. As the prime university for lifelong learning, it addresses the wide-ranging learning needs of people during the course of their lives, plus the need to achieve a considerable increase in the knowledge level of the community at large.

Open Universiteit in the Netherlands is an independent government-funded institute for distance learning at university level. The Dutch governments purpose in founding the Open Universiteit in the Netherlands was to make higher education accessible to everyone with the necessary aptitudes and interests, regardless of formal qualifications.

The Open Universiteit in the Netherlands seeks to be an institution that is strongly anchored in the Dutch higher educational system through its educational, research and innovative activities. Apart from that, it also operates successfully in the field of lifelong learning. It serves as a pioneer in open higher distance education and has a leading role in educational innovation, both in the Netherlands and abroad. In the market of lifelong learning, the Open Universiteit in the Netherlands wishes to establish firm footing.