— The Flying University (Warsaw, 1883, several versions until 1979)
— Black Mountain College (1933–57, founded by John Andrew Rice)
— Berlin Free University (founded 1945)
— John Cage at the New School for Social Research (1956–60)
— Intermedia (Toronto, 1960s)
— Bauhaus Situationniste (Sweden, 1963)
— Joseph Beuys’ ‘Free International University of Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research’(founded 1974)
— Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Boulder, founded 1974 by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman)
— Ultimate Akademie (Cologne, founded 1988 by Al Hansen and Lisa Cieslik)
— Free University in Leningrad (1988-92, founded by brothers Goroshevskie, instructors
included Timur Novikov, Boris Jukhananov, Mitya Volchek)
— École Temporaire (1998–1999, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe)
— Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Sofia (founded 2000)
— Copenhagen Free University (founded 2001) [see more in this issue]
— School of Missing Studies (Belgrade, founded 2002)
— Future Academy (London, founded 2002 by Clementine Deliss)— University of Openness (London, founded 2002)
— Bespartshkola (Moscow, founded by Vlad Tupikin)
— Manoa Free University (founded 2003)
— Informal University in Foundation (Berlin, founded 2003)
— L’université Libre (Saint-Petersburg, founded 2005)
— Free University of Los Angeles
— L’université tangente
— La Universidad Nómada [see more in this issue]
— Göteborgs Autonoma Skolas
