My two years of experience on the ResearchGate website, with editorial offices of scientific publishing houses and with human resources managers at universities and institutes in Western Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Canada, convinced me that in the world space of scientific research and higher education there really exists, to put it mildly, skeptical the attitude of management towards the ability of scientists at the age after sixty years to formulate large and complex scientific tasks and creatively solve them. Moreover, the labor and pension legislation of most of the countries of the 20G , the governmental policies of these countries, promote the establishment and existence of such an order. This causes great harm to the development of modern civilization. A large number of effective and creative workers are artificially driven out of the active scientific and educational space. Their new scientific ideas remain without due attention of scientific, state and public institutions for only one reason: a formal attitude toward the age of the bearer of these ideas. The creation of the International Fund for the Support of Scientific Research and Teaching for scientists who have reached retirement age can significantly weaken the effect of this negative trend, I think. Therefore, I propose to initiate the creation of such a Fund.
I do agree with your point. Firing a person (with 65), with mandatory retirement, you cannot force some to relax. It does not have to be international, but also local. You can move to other places (if you like), or stay with your research group Firing one person, you’re firing an entire research group and the expertise is lost. I suggest the Senior Professorship (of course self-initiated, not mandatory) as the answer for usual mandatory retirement. It is already working at some places.The University is paying only the difference between the pension and the normal salary.
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