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Jury meeting where the 4th "ADORACIÓN HOLGADO SÁNCHEZ" RESEARCH AWARD OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES FOR OLDER ADULTS 2017 has been awarded, held on Thursday 19th of October 2017 at 17:00, in the ROMERO DE LEMA Conference room, 6th floor of the Pontifical University of Salamanca, located on nº5 Compañía Street, Salamanca, 37002.

Members of the Jury:
•       President: Antonio Rodríguez Martínez, University of Santiago de Compostela.
•       Secretary: José Manuel Muñoz Rodríguez, University of Salamanca.
•       Spokesperson: José Manuel Sánchez Caro, former Rector at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (1989-1998).
•       Spokesperson: Florentino Blázquez Entonado, University of Extremadura.
•       Spokesperson: Concepción Bru Ronda, University of Alicante.

RESULTS OF THE "ADORACIÓN HOLGADO SÁNCHEZ" RESEARCH AWARD OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES FOR OLDER ADULTS 2017”,

unanimously, the Jury grants the AWARD to the project entitled:

MUSICALLY EDUCATIONAL LEISURE IN UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES FOR OLDER ADULTS IN SPAIN. PRESENCE AND TYPOLOGY IN AEPUM'S UNIVERSITIES, submitted by MERCEDES ALBAINA HERNÁNDEZ. University of Deusto.

The Jury agrees to grant the award to said project in accordance with the criteria of: its presentation, clarity, originality, relevance, employed methodology, novelty and applicability to university programmes for older adults.

Salamanca, October 19th 2017

The University of Valencia's university programme for older adults, La Nau Gran, celebrated on Monday, November 13th the graduation ceremony at the Auditorium, upon the completion of studies for the class of 2014-2017.

Participating in the ceremony were the University of Valencia's Vice-chancellor, Esteban Morcillo; the Vice-president and Minister of Equality and Inclusive Politics of the Generalitat, Mónica Oltra; the Politics of Training and Educational Quality Deputy Vice-chancellor, Ramón López Martín; and the Director of the University Extension Service, Amparo Pérez Carbonell.

The speakers at the event included two choruses: "Les veus de la memòria", made up of people affected by Alzheimer's disease, and the La Nau Gran choir. Furthermore, fellow student Francisco Javier Llorens Seller, who just completed the History pathway, delivered a very moving speech about his academic career.