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This article begins by looking at the adult education situation in Finland. Adult education is available for both mature students and young people at over a thousand institutions, including universities, polytechnics, public and private vocational institutions, adult education centres and summer universities, adult upper secondary schools, study centres, sports institutes, music institutes and residential folk high schools. As well, a significant part of adult education takes place outside institutions, being provided by employers as work based learning or in service training, including labour market training. The adult education sector is comprised of general adult education (formal adult education) and liberal adult education (non formal adult education). The author concludes that the challenge ahead for adult educators in Finland is to make sure that the existing high levels of quality and quantity are maintained over the short and long term future.