THIRD NATIONAL MEETING OF UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES FOR OLDER ADULTS- Salamanca

City: Salamanca

Date: 05/02/1999

Organizer: Pontifical University of Salamanca

Attendants

1. University of Alcalá

2. Autonomous University of Madrid

3. University of Cádiz

4. University Carlos III of Madrid

5. University of Córdoba

6. University of Extremadura

7. University of Girona

8. University of Granada

9. University of Huelva

10. University of Jaén

11. University of Málaga

12. University Miguel Hernández of Elche (Alicante)

13. University of the Basque Country

14. University of Las Palmas

15. Pontifical University of Salamanca

16. University Rovira y Virgili (Tarragona)

17. Universidad de San Pablo. CEU. Madrid

18. University of Salamanca

19. University of Seville

20. University of Valladolid

21. University of Experience of Valencia

Content

1. To strengthen the promising future of the University Programmes for Older Adults we need to find new funding methods that allow to consolidate active programmes and ensure its sustainability. It is considered appropriate to diversify the funding methods, because that will help to sustain and make these programmes independent. 

2. Highlight the great involvement of seniors, former students of different universities, with proposals that respond to the question "And then, what?".

Among the proposals we emphasize:* Boosting the learning autonomy of seniors. * Integrate seniors in other university activities apart from class, such as, for example, research. * Encourage the partnership that means that students can give back to society what they have received in these programmes.

3. Regarding the cultural and scientific duty of university towards society, we believe that the university campus must broaden its scope from urban space. This means, to somehow facilitate the experience classrooms and University Programmes for Older Adults' mobility to the rural area, with didactic and pedagogical proposals that allow to overcome the obstacles of living in some areas, because the right to lifelong learning is just as, if not more, essential as in urban areas (principle of equal opportunities).

4. The need to keep analyzing and discussing the multiple matters generated by the University Programmes for Older Adults makes essential to hold these National Meetings that are very profitable and benefit all.

5. We accept the proposal of the University of Seville to become the host of the Fourth Meeting.