This book explores and presents the experiences and possibilities of the institutional lifelong education program of the University of Valencia, called Nau Gran. The study demonstrates with theoretical arguments and well-founded empirical data, that this program contributes decisively to the welfare of citizens and that this in turn brings many notable non-monetary social benefits to our society. The author conducts a brief panoramic and international review of the emergence of the concept of lifelong learning from the last century to the present, with attention to the case study of the Nau Gran Program. She frames the local case she analyzes in a much broader international and global context, in which its emergence and development can be better explained.... [Leer más...]