Emmanuel Macron invited researchers “worldwide” to “choose France” and Europe, in an attempt to attract the American research sector threatened by Donald Trump this Friday, April 18, on Friday, April 18. “Here in France, investigation is a priority, the innovation of a culture, an unlimited horizon,” the French president told Network X.
He gave these researchers “on May 5”, without specifying what the subject of this event would be. At the same time, the Government launched a platform called “Choose France for Science” on Thursday, presented in a press release as “a first step to prepare for the reception of international researchers.”
American researchers in difficulty
Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January, researchers and universities have been in the sights of their government and have been afraid for their future, between academic and mining research, sanded. Therefore, more and more researchers or candidates for researchers reflect to leave the country, which has so far considered the paradise of research in many areas.
In France, the minister in charge of higher education and research, Philippe Baptiste, asked universities in early March to phosphorize to welcome them.
“While today’s international context creates the conditions for unprecedented vague mobility among researchers around the world, France intends to position themselves as a place of reception for those who wish to continue their work in Europe, according to the ecosystem and the research infrastructure of our country,” said Philippe Baptiste, with the Minister of Education, Elisabeth Borne and the general for Bonnell de Invest Bonnellell.
A program in Marseille and an invoice
The platform they put online aims to identify the “projects to receive international researchers ready to come and establish in Europe” mounted by universities, schools and research organizations. The research issues of these projects must include around health, weather and biodiversity, digital and artificial intelligence, space or agriculture.
“Each reception project financed by institutions with, if necessary, local authorities and the private sector may lead to additional financing by the State through France 2030 that can reach up to 50% of the total amount of the project,” adds the government.
The University of Aix-Marsille (AMU), which launched an appeal to US researchers in early March, announced Thursday that the first researchers will arrive in early June. AMU began the “Safe Place for Science” program with the plan to assign an envelope of 600 to 800,000 euros per researcher for three years.
At the same time, a bill to create a specific status of “scientific refugee” to allow US researchers threatened by the Trump administration to France was presented on Monday by former French president François Hollande, who became a deputy.
Source: BFM TV
