Help Wanted. Looking for American researchers.
While President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from institutes and scientific universities, limits what can be studied and pushes immigrants, rival nations hope to collect talents who have been put aside or be disenchanted.
For decades, trying to compete with American institutions and companies was difficult. The United States were a magnet for the best researchers, scientists and academics. In general, the budgets were larger, the salary was larger, the workshops and the equipment were larger. So were the ambitions.
In 2024, the United States spent almost $ 1 trillion of dollars – about 3.5 percent of total economic production – for research and development. When it was the type of long -term basic research which is the basis of American technological and scientific progress, the government represented about 40 percent of expenditure.
This is the reason why political, educational and corporate leaders in advanced countries and emerging economies have long engaged on a brain escape from their coasts. Now they are taking the opportunity to reverse the flow.
“This is an opportunity for brain earnings once-the-time,” said Australian Strategic Policy Institute, as he encouraged his government to act.
Last week, for soliciting more than a dozen members, the European Union announced that it would have spent another 500 million euros, or 556 million dollars, in the next two years to “make Europe a magnet for researchers”.
This sum is irrelevant to the US budget. So it is understandable if their appeals are satisfied with a request to “show me the money”.
After all, salaries tend to be much lower in Europe. In France, for example, a 35 -year -old researcher can expect to earn about € 3,600 (about $ 4,000) per month before taxes, according to the Ministry of French Education and Research. A post -Endotoro of Stanford would have earned the equivalent of about € 6,000 (about $ 6,685) per month in the United States.
However, there is an interest. Of 1,600 people who responded to a March survey in the Nature magazine – many of them Ph.D. or post -Entry Students in the United States – three out of four have declared to consider the possibility of leaving the country due to the Trump administration policies.
And the most generous social security network in Europe can compensate for a large part of the wage differential, said Patrick Lemaire, president of the College de Sociétés Savants Académiques de France, an arm of an international council that represents about 50,000 academics in France.
“There is much less money in Europe and the wages are much lower,” he said. “But you also have excellent social security and health care, which is free; school and university lessons are free.”
Here are some of the shots offered by countries and universities around the world.
France
In addition to the European Union, France has committed itself to putting the table last week in cash. President Emmanuel Macron said his government would have spent $ 113 million in a program to attract American researchers.
Other academic institutions are putting their money. The University of Aix Marseilles said he would spend up to $ 16.8 million to finance 15 foreign researchers. The offer has so far attracted more than 50 candidates, according to Science magazine. The University of Paris-Saclay is also establishing five new positions for American researchers.
Spain
Diana Morant, minister of science, innovation and universities in Spain, said that the government establishes a balance of an additional 45 million euros to attract scientists “despised or underestimated by the Trump administration”. The program offers American researchers an extra subsidy of $ 200,000 on top of a one million dollar package normally offered.
Catalonia, the prosperous northern -horient region of Spain, has announced a 34 million dollar program to attract American researchers who “can see their limited academic freedom”. Twelve universities will help to sponsor 78 “high quality” scientists in total from the United States in the next three years.
Denmark
Set at “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen, an Instagram post by Brian Mikkelsen, CEO of the Danish Chamber of Commerce, made this appeal: “This is a direct invitation to American researchers”. Talent people are losing work or funding because politics is obscured science, he said. “We want you to know that there is an alternative. In Denmark, we appreciate science. We believe in fact.” He said the Chamber and the Society of Engineers were asking to speed up 200 positions for researchers in the next three years. There was no mention of funding.
Sweden
Johan Pehrson, Minister of Sweden, organized a meeting last month with officials of nine universities to discuss how to attract discontented talents. “American academics and scientists: we need you!” He wrote on X. Alas, there were no musical accompaniments or mentioned money.
Norway
“Academic freedom is under pressure in the United States,” said Jonas Gahr Store, Prime Minister of Norway. The government offers 100 million Kroner, or 9.6 million dollars, to finance American researchers and another next year.
Great Britain
According to reports, the government of the Labor party is planning to spend 50 million pounds, or $ 66 million, to finance and transfer international scientists.
Canada
The University Health Network of Toronto and other foundations dedicate 30 million Canadian dollars ($ 21.5 million) to recruit 100 young scientists from the United States and elsewhere. In April, the University of British Columbia started the “week of the United States applicant” and reopened questions for some degree programs to offer American students another possibility to apply.
Portugal
Citing the policies of the Trump administration, the Nova Medical School of Portugal announced that he would have prepared other $ 2 million to cover the salaries of “international researchers of excellence” for three years and some transfer costs.
Austria
“The destruction of the freedom of science and democracy in the United States leaves me speechless,” Holzleitner, Minister of Women, Science and Research said Eva-Maria. “We are working on programs to provide a safe refuge for students and scientists at risk.”
Last month, Austria opened its national portal on Euraxess: motorcycle researchers, a platform supported by 43 European nations that offers a large database of job offers, scholarships and subsidies, as well as information on organizing a research project in Europe.
Australia
The Australian Academy of Science started a search for global talents last month, with its president who said there was “urgent and unparalleled opportunity to attract the smartest minds that left the United States”. The callout asked for donations to finance the effort.
Ireland, Belgium, South Korea and China also spoke of departure programs aimed at researchers, scientists and students in the United States.
Liz Aldman Relationships contributed by Paris.