Founded in 1988 the Magyar Nepfoiskolai Tarsasag is a non-profit making national adult learning umbrella organisation of high priority recognised by the Adult Education Act of 101/2001. Magyar Nepfoiskolai Tarsasag operates through 16 regional folk high school centres and has a membership of 146 organisations. The activities of folk high schools in Hungary are diverse ranging from local history, arts and crafts through specialised training for the unemployed including youth, Roma and agricultural workers, community development, active citizenship training, EU studies and basic skills training for functional illiterate adults to computer skills and foreign language teaching.