AEPUMA project
Project's name: (116/05) ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES FOR OLDER ADULTS.
Acronym: AEUPOAs
Duration: 2 years (2006 and 2007)
Coordinating Institution: University of Alicante – Permanent University
Notification of the Grant: Grant to carry out scientific research as well as technological development and innovation projects, called by the Resolution of the General Director of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, dated on 2nd June 2005 (BOE [Spanish State Official Gazette] of 17th June).
Partner Institutions:
- UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE
- PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA
- UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA
- UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS
- UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA
- AUTONOMA UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
- COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
- UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA
- PONTIFICIA COMILLAS UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
- UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
- UNIVERSITY OF LEON
- MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY OF ELCHE
- JAUME I UNIVERSITY OF CASTELLÓN
- UNIVERSITY OF LA LAGUNA
- UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA
- UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
- UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS
- UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA
- UNIVERSITY OF CASTILE-LA MANCHA
Project's description:
The proposal seeks to make an exhaustive analysis and evaluation of the specialized teaching programmes for older adults existing in the Spanish universities and that are imparted under the denomination of Older Adults University Studies.
Goals:
1. To check the educational levels of those students who request this training.
2. To evaluate the new education necessities of the older population in Spain.
3. To explain the current reality of the university education for older adults in Spain in the paragraphs of academic content, methodology and teaching, management, infrastructures, evaluation and results of the actions at the level of the students and of the social impact.
4. To analyse the existing models of university education for older adults.
5. To provide answers for the potential demand that older adults will make in future, and within the context of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and Lifelong Learning, which are defined in the declarations of La Sorbonne(1998) and Bologna(1999) and the Prague Communiqué (2001).
Concerning to the methodology, and taking as a starting point the complementariness of techniques, the following proposals are made: a quantitative analysis of the information of all programmes, which will be carried out through a survey questionnaire, obtained after a complex process of elaboration and validation. It would be completed with a qualitative analysis of documentary sources and with the information obtained from another compared sources, and from the semi-structured interviews that would be carried out with a random weighted group of students and professors from the different programmes of the Spanish territory.
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