Present and Future of Professors Emeriti at the University of Salerno

The University of Salerno has 36 emeriti professors, including 2 past Rectors and a member of the Italian Lincean Academy.It is also worthwhile that 10 of us are members of EAPE, the European Association of Professors Emeriti.Since 2022 a new Regulation has governed the conferral of the title; really, their state is left to the single Departments.Together with an institutional seniority, they must have contributed significantly to research and innovation in teaching or third mission activities.In the last years we decided to constitute an Association, despite the fact that official relations with the University of Salerno have been almost non-existing.However, we hope that the very recent election of the Rector could open a new deal: he considers professors emeriti a helpful resource in building a novel university, looking at the future with necessary curiosity and experimentation, but without canceling the memory of the past.