Students, researchers and demonstrators come together during a protest against the financing reductions of the Trump administration on research, health and higher education at the University of California in Los Angeles on April 8.
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A French university that courts the United States The academics said they had already received nearly 300 requests from researchers looking for “refugee status” in the midst of the elimination of funding by President Trump for several scientific programs.
Last month, the Aix-Marseilleille University, one of the oldest and largest universities in the country, announced that it accepted applications for its Safe place for the scientific programWho, according to him, offers “a safe and stimulating environment to scientists wishing to continue their research in complete freedom”.
This week, Aix-Marseille said he received 298 requests, and 242 of them were eligible and currently reviewed. Among the eligible candidates, 135 are American, 45 have dual nationality, 17 are French and 45 come from other countries, the university said.
“I am happy that this request for the creation of scientific refugee status found both the media and political traction”. University president Éric Berton said in a declaration.
The University of Public Research said that there is a uniform split between male and female candidates, with history of various prestigious American institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, NASA, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale and Stanford. About 20 Americans will be accepted in the program to start in June.
“We, at Aix-Marseille University, are convinced that mobilization to meet the challenges that scientific research is confronted must be collective in France and Europe,” said Berton.
The Trump administration has prioritized aggressive expenditure reductions and the federal reduction of the workforce, leading to a battle for the best and most brilliant in America.
Already, For exampleUniversities and medical research facilities should lose billions of federal funds within the framework of the National Institutes of Health. And declines on federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs compromised research from climate change has Biomedical research.
Aix-Marseille is not the only European institution hoping to capitalize on the leak of the brains of America.
Last month, the French centralistupelec announced a subsidy of $ 3.2 million to help finance American research that had been interrupted in the United States. And the Netherlands Minister of Education, Culture and Sciences Bruins EPPO wrote in a letter to Parliament that he asked to create a fund to bring the best international scientists to the Netherlands.
There is evidence that these supplications reach curious ears.
Last month in the newspaper Nature,, Over 1,200 respondents Identifying scientists have cited Trump’s financing cuts as reasons why they planned to move to Canada or Europe.
Discussion forums examined by NPR Show academics who reach the same conclusions.