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    I Paesi Bassi lancia il fondo per attirare i migliori scienziati, come quelli che fuggono dagli Stati Uniti

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    1. SPXQuantAlgo on

      “As political pressures and funding cuts drive some researchers out of the United States, the Netherlands is moving to position itself as a refuge for top scientific talent. Education Minister Eppo Bruins (NSC) announced the creation of a fund to attract leading international scientists, urging swift action to ensure the Netherlands becomes a destination of choice.

      “The world is changing. Tensions are rising. We see more and more scientists looking for a new place to continue their work,” Bruins wrote in a letter to the Tweede Kamer. “I want more top international scientists to come here. After all, top scientists are gold for our country and for Europe.”

    2. TalespinnerEU on

      This is ironic. The party running on ‘academia and STEM should be taught in Dutch’ is now trying to attract foreign scientists?

      It’s pretty rich. I’m sorry, but I don’t see why a scientist would flee Trumpistan only to end up in Wilderia. I mean; lesser of two evils, perhaps, but only because one of them has an absurd amount of power.

      I’d probably go to a different country. One that actually prized progress. The Netherlands… Is not (currently) that country.

    3. EuropeanWalker on

      While I applaud this as a Dutch, I do not understand how this aligns with our government’s policy of education and research austerity. In fact the very last part of the article mentions this. For context, there have been universities in NL that have had to fire quite a few of their research staff because they would get into financial trouble otherwise. Granted, the university I know most about decided to overspend in previous years given the cabinet policies on international students (the previous cabinets were rather pro until the end) to burn their reserves a bit, but the drastic turn of the new cabinet got it in big trouble. And the same albeit not so drastic for other Dutch universities. Must be very sour for these people to read this in the news.

    4. justbecauseyoumademe on

      Instead of operation “paperclip” we can do operation “stroopwafel”

    5. IkkeKr on

      This week Dutch universities are on strike to be able to *keep* more of the researchers they already have… but the government is going to spend money on *attracting* US researchers. Doesn’t seem like a well thought out policy.

    7. docentmark on

      As a research unit lead in a Dutch university, I am delighted to hear that we are funding the acquisition of American tech bros by our institutions.

      My university can use the money they saved by closing down my research unit to fund an American one instead. I guess they can take the grants that we fought and scrabbled for to get them started.

    8. ladeedah1988 on

      I don’t think very many are fleeing the US. A bit of hyperbole.

    10. trumpdesantis on

      Yeah you can look at the top 50 universities in the world to see that there barely a few Dutch universities. Top 20 are all American. There is no innovation coming out of the Netherlands.

    11. SnooStrawberries620 on

      Canada is also courting medical professionals and researchers – only to find out some of our research was funded by organizations like USAID. Even in other countries the US is ruining things 

    13. silverbatwing on

      *cries in wishing I was smart enough to be a scientist*

    14. phidippusregius on

      >Moving to position itself as a refuge for top scientific talent

      Would be admirable, if this same cabinet wasn’t actively stunting the development of home-grown talent by bleeding the higher education system dry.

      Awesome that while many young educated people (myself included) no longer see the point in pursuing an academic career here, yank scientists are gonna receive funding aplenty.

    15. GingerPolarBear on

      If only they would actually invest in higher education. All problems will be magically solved with ‘innovation’ according to this government. However, the only thing they do is cutting more and more budgets in higher education and research. Bunch of populist cowsrds.

    16. Playful_Copy_6293 on

      Well, and what about the dutch scientists? Will they just let them keep going to work in the US whenever they want? Even though those science degrees were fully paid by dutch/EU tax money? Shouldn’t they at least pay that money back to the netherlands since they won’t be paying taxes there at all?

    18. _chip on

      I’m sure a lot of scientists are leaving right now. But still.. The biggest dollars are here. And they know it.

    19. toolkitxx on

      Hello? Germany? Anyone home in the smarts department? How is it that our Dutch neighbours are again faster with this?

      Well done my orange friends 🙂

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