Trump sta spingendo gli scienziati americani tra le armi dell’Europa
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/03/27/trump-is-driving-american-scientists-into-europes-arms
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Trump sta spingendo gli scienziati americani tra le armi dell’Europa
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/03/27/trump-is-driving-american-scientists-into-europes-arms
di mrgr544der
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John von Neumann and Albert Einstein were part of a wave of great scientists who fled Nazi Germany, went to America and created new fields of research. The effect on innovation by American scientists was vast. Patenting in chemistry increased by 71%, according to research by Fabian Waldinger, then of Warwick University, and co-authors. America later built on its huge wartime scientific boom to win technological races against its new communist rivals. For decades, America’s immense investment in research lured Europe’s best scientific talent across the Atlantic.
European policymakers now see an opportunity to reverse the flow. The Trump administration is cutting funding and targeting researchers such as climate scientists for political reasons. Columbia University recently agreed to change disciplinary policies and the political orientation of teaching in some departments after the government threatened to cut $400m in federal grants. In a letter to the European Commission on March 20th, 13 science ministers of European Union countries called for “immediate action” to make Europe more attractive to “brilliant talents from abroad who might suffer from research interference and ill-motivated and brutal funding cuts”.
Universities and research funders are also looking into short-term opportunities. The European Research Council (ERC) grants for senior scientists will be beefed up, says an official. Germany’s Max Planck Society says it has been contacted by top scientists in America interested in moving, and is examining its options. Karolinska Institutet, a medical university in Stockholm, has set up a task force. Aix-Marseille University launched an initiative this month to attract 15 US-based researchers, and has had numerous applications. “The core of our programme is indignation and shock at witnessing the policies of the Trump administration,” says Eric Berton, the university’s president.
Giving refuge to researchers from America is part of Europe’s new urgency about boosting science. “Research, science and talent…are necessary to enhance European strategic autonomy,” write the 13 ministers in their letter. The threat from Russia demands that Europe catch up on cutting-edge military technologies. China is ahead in emerging fields such as quantum computing and cyber-security. Europe’s dependence on digital services from Silicon Valley no longer looks wise. As its industrial model and its population age, it must get better at innovating if it wants to lift growth and build next-generation industries and services.
Well, let’s be honest, most U.S. scientists are from Europe or Asia.
Trump might be the best thing what happened to Europe since ww2.
MEGA – make Europe great again.
The current US administration is the most anti-intellectual admin in the history of the US
The US took the best scientists after WWII. Now we have an amazing opportunity to reverse this trend 80 years later. Let’s not fuck this up and promote innovation in the field of science in Europe!
As a European, and on this specific point, I would like to say: Thank you!
Operation “Paperclip” 2.0
We’ll welcome all US scientists with open arms but the salaries we can offer pale in comparison with what they had in the USA.
I looked in the Bible and there ain’t no book of science in there. You damn commies can have all the scientists and their vaccines!
Based on the article, it sounds a whome lit more like European hopium, not any serious flight of american scientists.
Welcome home, here you are safe
the problem is that europe does not pay well.
it may be the end of researchn excepting china and india.
Will not help us without companies, an industry and a culture that supports innovation, so we can make use of them.
Big issue in europe is not scientists or money, our economic and political elites suck
Anyone here have an experience doing something like this?
I checked out salaries, apartments, cost of living etc. and it seems like I’d be earning post tax at about the level of a fast food employee in the U.S., just with more vacation.
Has anyone made the jump?
Just pick the scientists up on the street. People disappear there all the time. Bring them to Europe afterwards. Maybe we can call it N-ICE.
We will welcome you. Plus you’ll have 30days paid leave p. a. , full social securety and health service included.