Civil Engineer (University of Porto, Portugal) and Ph.D. (University of Florida, USA). Professor Alfredo Soeiro was Pro-Rector of University of Porto founder of EUCEN, RECLA and AUPEC, vice president of EUCEN and SEFI, president of IACEE, AUPEC and of SEFI. He is member of Steering Committee of NAP – EDEN, of Board and Secretary General of AECEF and of IACEE Council. Received medal of 800th Anniversary of U. Sorbonne, International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education title, EDEN Fellow and Senior awards, IACEE Fellow and Global Engineering Education Award. Coordinated six and participated in several European financed projects related with education like DAETE, TALOE, TA-SE and CALOHEE.

Lifelong Learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. Education is the process of facilitating learning. Schools at all levels have been contributing to LLL procedures. Most universities and other schools have been developing activities beyond educating young students and researching towards providing training and education for all. Universities and other education institutions have been addressing the use of materials online in digital format. One movement is recently the MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) that create free access to courses in most areas of knowledge are an effective tool to reach LLL for all.