French university courts American researchers looking for “scientific asylum” in the middle of Trump

A university in France says that almost 300 American researchers have requested a space in its “Safe Place for Science” program that was created to attract US researchers looking for “scientific asylum” in the middle of Aggressive academic expenses cuts and other actions against the universities of the Trump administration.

Brian Sandberg, who has taught history at an important United States State University for almost two decades, is one of those who has tried to take advantage of the program released in March by the University of Aix-Marseille.

He told News themezone that the United States runs the risk of losing his state as the most attractive global center of academic research. He expects the White House actions to lead to a “brain leak”, since many of their academic colleagues in a variety of issues seek to leave similar programs abroad due to White House Policies.

“The entire American system of research and research universities in general are under attack in many different ways,” Sandberg told News themezone. “I have no internal knowledge of the reasons for the Trump administration, but clearly of its statements and their actions, there is an attempt to control research and control knowledge.”

“The researchers in all the domains of academic investigation are frozen their funds by the federal government. In some cases, existing subsidies were terminated,” he said.

“The new subsidy processes are being politicized with certain keywords used to essentially censor which subjects are worthy of research and which do not,” said Sandberg. “So I’ve seen many researchers talking about looking for a B Plan.”

You will find many options.

Several important international universities have launched academic programs in a Effort for hunting hunters from researchers away from the US. As the Trump administration, in recent months, frozen funds, has made cuts and issued executive orders aimed at individual schools throughout the United States.

Aix Marseille says that he will commit almost $ 18 million in funds for 15 American researchers to study in fields ranging from health, environment and climate change, to social sciences and astrophysics.

The schools of Europe, Canada and China have made movements in recent months to attract academics from American universities as the White House continues with movements that, he says, will eliminate waste and bureaucratic fraud, as well as the cutting programs that the administration says that they promote the “radical alarmism of Dei and climate change.”

Aix Marseille said in April that he had created the Safe Place for Science program to attract academics, “in a context in which some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research.”

Later, the University said he had received requests from Stanford researchers, Yale, Nasa, Nih, George Washington University and more than a dozen other “prestigious institutions” who “were now considering scientific exile.”

“The United States is an international power of scientific research and academic research and knowledge production for everyone. But that is precisely what is under assault now,” Sandberg said.

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