EDUCATION | LANGUAGES | LEISURE The adult education centre in Solothurn is your learning partner. We offer a diverse and wide-ranging programme in general education, languages and leisure. In our more than 500 courses, we make more than 3500 people a year capable and smart in a friendly and professional way. People come to us because they enjoy learning, knowledge and skills. If you understand yourself and the world a little better, move more confidently in society and can make new contacts.

Founded in the mid-1970s, ECAP Solothurn is one of the oldest regional offices of ECAP. The courses offered are primarily aimed at migrants. They are based on the latest methodological and didactic findings and are constantly being expanded. It is low-threshold and adapted to the group-specific concerns (e.g. women, illiterate and unemployed) and realities of the participants. An up-to-date overview of ECAP Solothurn's can be found in our course programme . ECAP Solothurn's current range of courses covers four areas: German courses • Courses on various levels: alphabetisation and levels A1 up to B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for the languages CEFR • Daily, evening and Saturday courses • Professional and job-related German courses (for companies and institutions) Labour market measures (in cooperation with the AWA) • Stabe-Stebe Courses (professional assessment / job application techniques) • Information day for foreign-language unemployed persons Vocational training • CNC operators (turning and milling) and CNC programmers Special courses • Elternkurse in den Gemeinden: German courses in various municipalities of the canton of Solothurn for participants with caring responsibilities (incl. childcare service) We are also an accredited examination center for fide test. Here you can find more information .

ECAP is a non-commercial and non-profit adult education institute in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, there are nine regional branches throughout Switzerland. With its courses, the intercultural organisation enables the education of migrants and employees in general, including those with little formal education. With more than 50,000 participants per year, ECAP is the second largest adult education institute in Switzerland – and the number one school for German and integration courses. ECAP operates 24 training centres in Switzerland, which are managed by 9 regional centers in Aarau, Basel, Bern, Lamone, Lausanne, Lucerne, Solothurn, Winterthur and Zurich.