EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION FOR SENIORS AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Abstract

Places that were and are scenario of our lives, are an intrinsic partof our identity, individual and collective. Both Cultural Heritage andNatural Heritage are constitutive elements of our way of life. The SeniorUniversity, the university program for older adults of the Universityof A Coruña, develops educational initiatives with an internationaldimension that promote knowledge of their own identity, but froma European and international perspective, through unique projectsand initiatives that have the active participation of the students. Thisarticle will describe several experiences that, under the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union, promote knowledge of CulturalHeritage among older adults in an international context.