Welcome to the “Université Populaire du Canton de Genève” web site

This page is a summary of our web site in French

We are

The “Université Populaire du Canton de Genève” (also called UPCGe) is an association which offers adult evening classes. We give French courses (traditional French courses, literacy, written French and phonetics) foreign language courses and general knowlege courses. (see list below)

The courses take place from Monday to Thursday evenings.

A lesson lasts 1h30 once or twice a week.

The courses run from October to June.

All our teachers are volontary

To enrol you must first become a member of our association (annual fee: CHF 50.-) and then pay CHF 50.- administrative tax. So to join one course will cost you CHF 100.-, for two courses CHF 150.- etc.

It is possible to enrol after the school year has started if  places are still available.

 

Where to find us

The reception of the UPCGe is:  rue du Vuache 23, 1201 Genève.
(behind the Cornavin station, off the rue Volaire)

You can contact us at info@upcge.ch, phone:+41 22 3390500 or come to the reception. The members of our team speak French, English, Spanish or Portuguese.

 

September to June

Summer holiday

10th July to
10th August

Monday

14h00-19h30

Tuesday

14h00-19h30

Wednesday

14h00-19h30

Thursday

14h00-19h30

Friday

closed

 

List of courses
Click on the course you want and get details in French.

FRENCH

There are four different French courses :

OTHER LANGUAGES

Foreign language courses fall into two groups. In the first we offer a large range at different levels:

beginner, pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced.

We have a smaller offer in the following languages, but we hope to develop our offer

COMPUTER , MATHS AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE COURSES

Computer and maths

General knowledge courses