VII Conference of the State Association of University Programs for the Elderly People (AEPUM) and University and Society Forum

Universidad de la que depende el PUM: University of La Laguna

 

VII Conference of the State Association of University Programs for the Elderly People (AEPUM) and University and Society Forum "Education, Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations" 

Start date and end date: From March 1st to 2nd, 2012

 

Registrations until February 9th 2012 by filling the following form.

 

Place of development: La Laguna (Tenerife)

 

The European Commission has declared 2012 as "European Year on Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations". On that occasion, several activities and events will be scheduled in each member country, both at national, regional and local levels, which will serve to demonstrate that the EU is suffering a very important process of demographic change, because its inhabitants are people who live longer and healthier lives. 

 

Actually, life expectancy has increased in eight years and demographic projections predict an increase of five years in the next forty years. If this is combined with low birth rates, the balance between young people and older adults will change in a very important way in a more or less immediate future. Eurostat demographic projections show a decline of 6,8% in the number of people at working age for the year 2030, therefore, two people of working age will be needed to support a retired person. 

 

Hence that European societies are facing a series of important challenges with obvious repercussions at local, regional and national level. Therefore, the European Year on Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations celebration should serve to check and create such challenges in very different areas, such as economic, labor, health and social services, urban planning, the service sector, among others. 

 

One of the areas that helps demonstrably to promote the different aspects of personal and group activity is, without doubt, education, and more specifically, High Education. In Spain we have educational experiences developed in the generally so-called Universities for Older Adults, presents almost in all public and private Spanish universities, and gathered under the State Association of University Programs for the Elderly People (AEPUM).

 

It is, therefore, that this University and Society Forum could serve to make a balance of the contribution of such experiences in local, regional and national actions context, which tend to promote the active ageing and solidarity between generations. 

 

 

15:30: Participants welcome
16:00: Words of welcome by Academic Authorities
16:15: Workshop “Education, Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations: contributions and challenges of the research and practical experiences at the UpM". 
17:00: Formation of working groups
17:15: First round of discussion: UpM contribution to active ageing
18:00: Coffee
18:20: Second round of discussion: are we promoting solidarity between generations at university? what about in society?
19:10: Third round of discussion: the relationships between university-society, can we improve them to promote active ageing and solidarity between generations?
20:00: Elaboration of conclusions
20:30: Dinner

 

 

Expected number of participants/beneficiaries and/or groups to which this initiative is aimed: 60

 José Arnay Puerta  jarnay@ull.es

Pabellón de Gobierno, C/ Molinos de Agua s/n. · 38200 · La Laguna · Spain

Phone number: (+34) 922 31 91 55