The goal is to focus on new teaching, once again in presence and in complete safety
24 February 2021 - The professor. Raffaele Calabrò, Rector ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma from 1 September 2017, he is the new Vice President of Crui, Conference of Italian university rectors. He joins the President, Ferruccio Resta, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, and the general secretary Francesco Adornato.
Elected in the past weeks in the Junta as representative of non-state universities, with the new appointment as Vice President, Professor calabrò he will be called upon to deal with the most topical issues of the Italian university world, from internationalization processes to the third mission and the relationship with the world of work.
calabrò, born in Lucera in the province of Foggia on 19 February 1947, graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Naples Federico II in 1971, is a specialist in cardiology. He was a university professor at the “Federico II” and “Luigi Vanvitelli” of Naples, full professor since 2005. Councilor for Health from 1995 to 1997 and president of the Council of the Campania Region from 1997 to 2000, he was Senator and Deputy of the Republic in the 2008-2013 and 2013-2017 legislatures before becoming Rector of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in 2017.
“Today there is a world that suffers the most and it is that of young people – said the Rector calabrò - This is why the university has to face a great challenge, that of responding to the expectations of the new generations. Young people are experiencing discomfort due to the reduction in the possibilities of being together, studying and growing in relationships with each other. At the same time, a great opportunity is approaching, that of the Recovery plan which will help us get out of this pandemic if we know how to invest in human capital and in the training of girls and boys".
"In this scenario - goes on calabrò - the University must be at the forefront, renewing itself and seeking the most innovative solutions in scientific research, increasingly technological, and in teaching. We must focus on a new teaching, once again in presence and in complete safety, based on the comparison between teachers and students and between the students themselves. Everything that technology has taught us so far must be used to the fullest, in a mixed teaching that knows how to take advantage of the remote experience. I believe that if the university world is able to seize this great opportunity – concludes – we will be able to find a better community after this difficult moment”.
