of Ballroom and Latin American dancers when the city hosts the Assen Dance Festival which includes the Dutch Open Championships. This is an open event for dancers from all countries. Cycling Assen is also the capital of the "cycling province" of the Netherlands, Drenthe. There are many high quality cycle paths in the city and surroundings and it is host to regular cycling events such as the Drentse fietsvierdaagse and the Jeugdtour. In 2009 the prologue and opening stage of the Vuelta a España took place in Assen. The city has twice hosted the International Six Days Enduro. Association football Asser Christelijke Voetbalvereniging was founded in 1939 and is one of the most successful amateur clubs in Dutch football. Education The city of Assen is home to the Dutch secondary vocational education (MBO) of Drenthe College. Some of the programmes offered by this vocational school are "Car technician", "First Car Engineer" and "First motorcycle technician", all due to the strong connections between DC and the TT Circuit Assen. About 8,000 students work across the three faculties in the city of Assen, as well as few others in Meppel and Emmen. Assen also hosts one faculty of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, more specifically the Hanze Institute of Technology. About 100 university students are located here, some from the Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and some from the Master Course of Smart Systems Engineering. The difference between the two institutions is that the former is only given in Dutch and is more "work in the field" orientated. Meanwhile, the latter is an international university of AS that provides Bachelors's and Masters's studies in English (see education in the Netherlands). International relations Assen is twinned with: Poznań, Poland Notable people born in Assen Johannes Alberti (1698 in Assen – 1762) a Dutch theologian Hendrik Jan Smidt (1831 in Assen – 1917 ) Governor-General of Suriname 1885 to 1888 Tettje Clay-Jolles (1881 in Assen – 1972) one of the first female Dutch physicists Jo van de Kieft (1884 – 1970 in Assen) a Dutch politician and businessman Jan Donner (1891 in Assen – 1981) a Dutch politician Johannes Linthorst Homan (1903 in Assen – 1986) a Dutch politician and diplomat Anne de Vries (1904 in Kloosterveen – 1964) a Dutch teacher and author Henk Feldmeijer (1910 in Assen – 1945) a Dutch National Socialist politician Jacob Staal (1913 in Assen -