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Membership

The EADTU was established in January 1987. It has grown to be an association of 31 national members representing 25 European countries.

EADTU's membership is of diverse nature, but could be roughly divided into two categories: there are the autonomous degree granting universities, teaching solely at a distance on one hand. On the other hand there are organisations which are consortia, joint ventures or other groupings of institutions or departments of institutions.

Open and distance universities
Anadolu University	AU	TURKEY
FernUniversität in Hagen	FernUni	GERMANY
Hellenic Open University	HOU	GREECE
Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics	MESI	RUSSIA
Open Universiteit Nederland	OUNL	THE NETHERLANDS
Open University	OUUK	UNITED KINGDOM
Open University of Cyprus	OUC	CYPRUS
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia	UNED	SPAIN
Universidade Aberta	Uab	PORTUGAL
Università Telematica Internazionale UNINETTUNO	UTIU	ITALY
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya	UOC	SPAIN



Associations
Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza	AGH	POLAND
Consorzio NETTUNO		ITALY
Czech Association of the Distance Teaching Universities	CADUV	CZECH REPUBLIC
Danish Association of Open Universities	AU-DK/ DAOU	DENMARK
Distance Education Centre of Latvia		LATVIA
Estonian Information Technology Foundation	EITF	ESTONIA
Hungarian e-University Network		HUNGARY
Lithunian National Distance Education Association	NDEA	LITHUNIA
National Distance Education Centre	OSCAIL	IRELAND
Network for Distance Education Polish Technological Universities		POLAND
Polish Virtual University / Polski Uniwersytet Wirtualny	PUW	POLAND
Slovakian Association for Distance Higher Education		SLOVAKIA
Studiecentrum Open Hoger Onderwijs	StOHO	BELGIUM
Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education	NSHU	SWEDEN
the Open Learning Foundation	OLF	UNITED KINGDOM
the University of London (External system)		UNITED KINGDOM
Zentrum for Fernstudien Schweiz	FS	SWITSERLAND
Zentrum für Fernstudien Universität Linz	ZFUL	AUSTRIA



Associate members
Athabasca University	AU	CANADA
Open University of Israel		ISRAEL
Télé-Université	TELUQ	CANADA
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja	UTPL	ECUADOR

EADTU’s Organisational Chart (PDF)
The benefits of EADTU membership (PDF)
EADTU Membership fees (PDF)

Expansion of membership
During the years to come EADTU aims to extend the membership further in Central and Eastern Europe through the (national) contact points, by encouraging universities involved in ODL and e-learning to join in national associations, thus enabling them to become members of EADTU.

How to apply for membership » (PDF)