The VI Ibero-American Congress of University Programmes for Older Adults (CIPUAM) has as reference a framework for national and international cooperation among researchers’ groups and universities with university programmes for older adults (Open University for Old Age)

The AEPUM takes part in this Congress as the organisation’s advisor entity, and it will provide as well an intervention related to the situation of the University Programmes for Older Adults in Spain. Likewise, it will participate in the RIPUAM assembly (International Net of University Programmes for Older Adults). Dr. Mª Pilar García de La Torre, appointed member of the AEPUM management board and representative of the University of A Coruña, will be in charge of developing these assignments in the VI Ibero-American Congress of University Programmes for Older Adults (CIPUAM).

The Congress takes place from the 14^th to the 17^th July 2015.

Place of development: Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa

Today, 18th November 2014, Dr. Cristina Civera Mollá, Director of the NAU GRAN Programme of the University of Valencia and member of the AEPUM Management Board, has passed away.

From AEPUM we are appalled at this unexpected and devastating news.

May she rest in peace.

The funeral will take place tomorrow 18^th November at 12:00 h in the funeral parlour of Massanassa in Valencia.

Observal 2015 will boost the processes of professional qualification as well as the acknowledgment of traineeships and the competences acquired from experience on the basis of the analysis of the current context and moment, and generating the commitment of the agents involved in this task with the aim of achieving a modern and competitive society, with social and sustainable responsibility, and consistent with the goals of the «Europe 2020» strategy.

The jury, unanimously, delivers an EX AEQUO award to the projects submitted at the call with the input record numbers 1 and 6, and according to the scale criteria based on clarity, originality, relevance, methodology used, innovation, and applicability of the research works presented at the university programmes for older adults.

The official call for the Miguel Hernández Awards 2012 will be shortly published in BOE. However, for reasons beyond our control, it is being delayed more than we would have wished. Since we do not want to miss the opportunity of giving this call the widest dissemination possible before the academic year ends, we are enclosing an informative file as a preview so that you can promote it as much as you consider appropriate.

The University of the Balearic Islands arranges a new edition of the International Summer University for Older Adults, in its 7^th edition. It will take place from the 7^th to the 13^th of September in Majorca, with the title of “A journey through the water in Majorca”.

This is an encounter that every year gathers students from different European countries. The working language of the seminary is English. 

All the information will be available for consultation on the web http://summersenioruniversity.uib.eu/

The documentary “Coming back to class after 50”, which reviews the history and the present of the University Programmes for Older Adults, appears in the Cinco Días and El País newspapers.

• Access to the documentary in "El País"
• Access to the documentary in "Cinco Días"

Documentary Abstract

The pleasure of knowledge, the craving for learning, the need for interacting or recycling oneself professionally, a postponed desire… All of them are powerful reasons that push many people who have surpassed the 50 years old to come back to university or to enroll for the first time. In Spain there are currently more than 41.000 senior students in the different courses that the universities for older adults offer, taken in under the umbrella of the public ones, and also of some private ones, distributed around all the national territory.