Period for registration and grant application is open: 4th latin american congress

PERIOD FOR REGISTRATION AND GRANT APPLICATION IS OPEN: 4TH LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS OF UNIVERSITIES FOR OLDER ADULTS - CIUUMM 2011

 

 

June 27th to 30th 2011 – Alicante (Spain).

 

Dear friends,  

 

In the name of the Spanish National Association of University Programmes for Older Adults (AEPUM) and the International University Menéndez Pelayo as the organizing entities of the Congress, we would like to inform you that the period for registration and grant application is open for attending the 4th Latin American Congress of Universities for Older Adults , which will be held in Alicante, Spain, on June 27th to 30th 2011. This congress is to be seen in the frame of national and international cooperation among research groups and universities with university programmes for older adults and  educational experiences of seniors.

 

All the information about this matter can be found at the Technical Secretariat of the UIMP: http://www.uimp.es/blogs/valencia/actividades/ciuumm-2011/

 

CIUUMM 2011 joins in previous activities in order to stress at the beginning of the 21st century the need to go into depth within the analysis of specific teaching for older adults at universities, understanding this as a continuous and lifelong training, which is necessary for responding to the challenge of an ageing population, and for strengthening a society open for all ages, able to reduce poverty and to promote the inclusion of marginalized groups, social participation and an active citizenship.  

 

The Congress will incorporate diverse perspectives of universities and institutions responsible for educational and social policies which affect older adults’ training, as well as works and analysis of researchers within the fields and knowledge areas of Education, Gerontology, Sociology of Ageing and other subjects within Social Science, Humanities, Health, and New Technologies, who can contribute research, results and relevant proposals for the subject matter of the Congress. Other aspects to highlight about the event are its interdisciplinarity and transnationality with the multilateral component, which goes along with it.  

 

The Congress is structured in five conferences and three panels with plenary character for the joint participation of the audience. Within the frame of three of the plenary conferences and one of the panels of experts, there will be invited conference papers, which will be presented simultaneously by the researchers in different rooms. After each paper and presentation of a specific topic, there will be simultaneous other presentations and papers selected for their exhibition in the Congress.

 

Hoping that this will be of interest for you, we invite you to get to know all the information about the Congress, which is available on the web site:  http://www.aepumayores.org/ciuumm2011/en

There you will find also the offers for accommodation,  the rules for presenting and sending pieces of work (papers and posters), along with the period set by the Academic Secretariat of the CIUUMM 2011, for presenting them until the deadline, which is March 14th for papers and posters.

 

AEPUM - Asociación Estatal de Programas Universitarios para Mayores
E-mail: aepum@ua.es
Web site: http://www.aepumayores.org/

AEPUM - Asociación Estatal de Programas Universitarios para Mayores
Universidad Alicante - Aulario III Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig , S/N - 03690 – San Vicente del Raspeig - Alicante (España)
Telf: 965909454 y 965909793 - Fax: 965909812

E-mail: aepum@ua.es