Releasing the Potentials of Senior Scholars and Scientists Emerging Productivity in a New Era

Abstract

This book focuses on the renaissance and emerging productivity of senior researchers in a new ERA. It exposes mistaken ideas about older scholars and scientists, as well as presenting their research potential and how this can be released. The book also includes a series of career autobiographies of academics who continued working after mandatory retirement and who may serve as role models for future generations. This volume is partly based on a 2003 mini-symposium on the emeriti policy of Utrecht University, organized by Henk A. Becker, and partly on the activities of the European Research Institute on Health and Aging (ERGO), of which Johannes J.F. Schroots is the director. ERGO’s aim is to disseminate knowledge on and expertise in healthy aging to the member states of the European Union and other interested countries. The present book is the final product of Becker and Schroots’s efforts to advocate the necessity of an EU policy on senior researchers.