“Chilling reports” from nearly 300 people arrived in a single month at Aix-Marseille University. Scientists escape Trump cuts in universities.
The French University of Aix-MarSeille was from the first in the world to react to US universities, which will see in thousands of dollars their financing.
Your answer is called ”and invites about 20 researchers to move to France in a kind of“ scientific asylum ”.
The university promises three years of financing in its facilities. This Thursday, the university told what has already received 298 candidacies only in a month.
Most applications were sent through encrypted messages, tells the university dean, Eric Berton, to the French newspaper. “And with them came worrying, sometimes creepy reports of US researchers about their destination by the Trump administration, ”he adds.
While 135 competitors were Americans, another 45 had double nationality, and were mostly experienced scientists in such diverse areas as an environment, humanities or life sciences.
Former French President François Hollande recently suggested the creation of a “scientific refugee” status. Both the current deputy of the left wing and the university director believe that these researchers should be recognized as Refugees of full right.
“The teams have been banned from conferences and private publications. Academics are required to justify the usefulness of their work, financing are brutally withdrawn and the essential data to their programs are pure and simply deleted,” is written in the Liberius article.
The bill, which has to be approved by Parliament, is a response to a historical moment, argues Hollande. “It’s a symbolic way of showing that France is an open countryat a time when the United States closes upon themselves and authoritarian regimes continue aggressive and repressive policies. ”
