On 28th June, after the official inauguration by the Rector of the Ramón LLull University (Barcelona) and the President of IAUTA, Prof. Vellas, took place the XXVIII International Conference of the IAUTA.

On 29th June, Prof. José Ramón Belda Medina has participated with the presentation “Using Technology to Motivate Senior Students in Second Language (L2) Learning” that included his study in English language training for Senior Students at the UPUA. This study is also included in a broader study developed by various researchers within the framework of a group of networks for education and educational innovation, promoted by the Deputy Vice-chancellor for Quality of the UA.

One more year, AEPUM promotes research in the field of University Programmes for Older Adults through the execution of the 5^TH EDITION OF THE “2018 ADORACIÓN HOLGADO SÁNCHEZ AWARD” IN RESEARCH OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES FOR OLDER ADULTS. The call for the submission of the works will be opened from 1^st of March 2018 to 15^th of September 2018.

This award was created in the Academic Year 2013-14, in order to honour the best works in research carried out on topics and formative and researching areas which are in agreement with the objectives and the interest developed in the Universities that make up AEPUM and develop University Programmes in Spain. The award is supposedly an acknowledgement granted by the Spanish Association of University Programmes for Older Adults to researchers who dedicate their efforts to search for innovative solutions in favour of the lifelong learning, as a way to enhance the education, the personal development and the quality of life of the older adults.   

In June 2017, the 16^th Assembly of AEPUMS agreed unanimously to change the name of the Spanish National Association of University Programmes for Older Adults Research Award created in 2013, to “ADORACIÓN HOLGADO SÁNCHEZ AWARD” IN RESEARCH OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES FOR OLDER ADULTS, as a heartfelt tribute to the first Secretary of AEPUM. She was a passionate driver of these programmes and she promotes the creation of the Spanish National Association of University Programmes for Older Adults.

Thus, we inform professors and researchers of the universities associated to AEPUM, that the 2018 call is opened, in accordance with the following TERMS OF THE 5^TH EDITION CALL OF THE 2018 AEPUM RESEARCH AWARD

The Experience Classroom of the University of Huelva, presents the Photovoice experience, a project of Participatory Photography that uses the image as a tool to help people from defined groups to identify with their group and to represent and strengthen their community. Photovoice represents a tool of social action and empowerment that uses photography as a language, and therefore, as a way of expressing the reality of the group involved. The objectives related to Photovoice have been focused particularly on disadvantaged social groups, although nowadays their communicative and educational possibilities have been extended to other groups with different specific needs as for example the older adult group.