Job offers. Looking for American researchers.
While President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, which, what can be examined, is restricted, and immigrants are urged, competing nations hope to record talents that are put aside or disappointed.
The attempt to compete with American institutions and companies has been difficult for decades. The United States was a magnet for top researchers, scientists and academics. In general, the budgets were larger, the payment was larger, laboratories and equipment were larger. So were ambitions.
In 2024, the United States spent almost 1 trillion US dollar – approximately 3.5 percent of total economic performance – for research and development. When it comes to the type of long -term basic research that is based on American technological and scientific progress, the government made up about 40 percent of the expenditure.
For this reason, political, education and business leaders in advanced countries and emerging countries have annoyed themselves from their own banks about a Brain outflow. Now take the chance to turn around the river.
“This is a unique chances of the brain to win the brain,” said the Australian Strategic Policy Institute when it encouraged its government to act.
Last week, the European Union announced at the urging of more than a dozen members that it would spend a further 500 million euros or 556 million US dollars over the next two years to “make Europe for researchers a magnet”.
Such a sum is poor compared to US budgets. So it is understandable whether your appeals have come across the request to “show me the money”.
After all, salaries in Europe are usually much lower. According to the French Ministry of Education and Research, a 35-year-old researcher can expect around € 3,600 per month before taxes in France. A postdoctoral in Stanford would earn the equivalent of around € 6,000 (approx. $ 6,685) per month in the United States.
Nevertheless, there is interest. Of 1,600 people who reacted to a March survey in the Nature magazine – many of them Ph.D. Or postdoctoral in the United States – three out of four said that they had thought about leaving the country because of the policy of the Trump government.
And the more generous net of social security in Europe can compensate for a large part of the salary difference, said Patrick Lemaire, President of College de Sociétés Savantes Académiques de France, an arm of an international council that represents around 50,000 academics in France.
“There is much less money in Europe and the salaries are much lower,” he said. “But they also have very good social security and health care that is free. School and university lessons are free.”
Here are some of the parking spaces offered by countries and universities around the world.
France
In addition to the European Union, France promised to put money on the table last week. President Emmanuel Macron said his government would spend $ 113 million for a program to attract American researchers.
Other academic institutions set up their own money. Aix-Marseille University announced that it would spend up to $ 16.8 million for the financing of 15 foreign researchers. According to Journal Science, the offer has so far attracted more than 50 applicants. The University of Paris-Saclay also builds five new positions for American researchers.
Spain
Diana Morant, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain, said that the government had budgeted additional 45 million euros in order to attract scientists “despised or undervalued by the Trump government”. The program offers American researchers an additional 200,000 US dollar in addition to a usually offered million dollar package.
Catalonia, Spain's prosperous Northeast region, announced a 34 million dollar program that attracts American researchers who can “restrict their academic freedom”. In the next three years, twelve universities will help sponsor 78 “high -quality” scientists from the USA.
Denmark
An Instagram post by Brian Mikkelsen, the managing director of the Danish Chamber of Commerce, was on Bruce Springsteen “Born in the USA”, an Instagram post, the following call: “This is a direct invitation to the American researcher.” Talented people lose their work or financing because politics overshadow science, he said. “We want you to know that there is an alternative. In Denmark we appreciate science. We believe in facts.” He said the chamber and the Society of Engineers demanded 200 positions for researchers over the next three years. No financing was mentioned.
Sweden
Johan Pehrson, Swedish Minister of Education, organized a meeting with nine universities last month to discuss how to attract angered talent. “To American academics and scientists: We need you!” He wrote about X. Achas, no musical accompaniment or money was mentioned.
Norway
“Academic freedom is under pressure in the United States,” said Jonas Gahr, Prime Minister of Norway. The government will offer 100 million crowns or 9.6 million US dollars next year to finance experienced American and other international researchers.
Great Britain
According to reports, the Labor Party government plans to spend 50 million pounds or $ 66 million in order to finance and shift international scientists.
Canada
The University Health Network in Toronto and other foundations dedicate $ 30 million (21.5 million US dollars) to recruit 100 young scientists from the USA and elsewhere. In April, the University of British Columbia initiated the “US Applicant Week” and opened applications for a few graduate programs to give American students another chance.
Portugal
Citing the Trump Administration guidelines, the Portugal Nova Medical School announced that there would be an additional 2 million US dollar for covering the salaries of “International Researchers of Excellence” for three years and some moving costs.
Austria
“The destruction of freedom of science and democracy in the USA leaves me speechless,” said Eva-Maria Holzleitner, the Minister for Women, Science and Research, in an Instagram video. “We are working on programs to offer students and scientists who are at risk.”
Last month, Austria opened its own national portal for Euraxess researchers in Motion, a platform that was supported by 43 European nations and offers a wide database with job offers, scholarships and grants as well as information about the organization of a research project in Europe.
Australia
The Australian Academy of Science started a global talent search last month. Her president said there was an “urgent and unprecedented opportunity to attract the smartest heads that the United States leave”. The Callout asked for donations to finance the efforts.
Ireland, Belgium, South Korea and China have also talked about the starting programs aimed at researchers, scientists and students in the United States.
Liz Alderman contributed to the reporting from Paris.