“Scientific Asylum”: Like Europa US researcher in the middle of Trump -Fangste | Educational messages

French President Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, organize a conference in Paris to attract the academics and researchers based in the USA based on the goal of American President Donald Trump at universities.

On Monday, the Commissioners of the European Union announced incentives for half a billion euros ($ 568 million) to lure international academics at the continent of the exace Europe for Science Conference.

The meeting at the Paris University of Sorbonne is aimed at academics and researchers who fear that their work will be threatened by billions of dollars of the US government's expenditure for universities and research centers as well as attacks on university institutions via diversity guidelines and pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Pro-Palestinian foreign students in the United States were arrested and sent in detention centers, often without a proper procedure, while the universities were put under pressure to punish professors against the Gaza Strip. Activists said that the Trump government's measures, including revocations of the constant living status of students, have an impact on academic freedom – a cornerstone of the American education system.

Trump's campaign against universities has the political leaders of Europe hope that they could harvest an intellectual wind. Macron's office said the EU aimed at researchers who work in the areas of health, climate, biological diversity, artificial intelligence and space.

From the Leyen she said that the EU member states wanted to invest 3 percent of its gross domestic products in research and development by 2030.

What we know about Trump's attacks on educational institutions

US universities and research institutions have increasing political pressure under Trump, including the threat of federal financing cuts. Trump has pushed the universities to punish propalestinine -spalent demonstrators, and they ordered them to reduce the measures to diversity, justice and inclusion (Dei) that aim to give better representation for minorities and bad communities.

Trump and his voter base have accused US universities of promoting progressive ideology for conservative values. They say that the universities did not protect the civil rights of conservative and Jewish students.

On April 14th, Harvard University rejected a number of Trump administration requirements. The US Education Ministry of Education almost froze within a few hours $ 2.3 billion in federal financing for the Ivy League institution.

Last week, Trump renewed his threat of touching Harvard from his tax -exhausted status, a step that the university could cost in billions of dollars if they are implemented. Harvard has described the President's step as “leverage to check over academic decisions”. The university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has sued the administration.

On March 10, the Ministry of Education announced that it had sent letters to 60 university institutions and warned them from “enforcement measures” if they did not protect Jewish students on campus as in title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

In February, the Trump government for Columbia University in New York City with 400 million US dollars, which emerged as the epicenter of the protests of the last year against Israel War against Gaza. Some universities have also received “Stop Work” order – calls for the suspension of research projects that are financed by the government.

Cornell University in ITHACA, New York, said that according to a statement published on April 8 by Cornell President Michael I Kotlikoff, it received more than 75 “Stop Work” order from the US Department of Defense.

Elsewhere, hundreds of international students and graduates in recent years have even stuck their US Visa cleaning-for participating in Pro-Palestin demonstrations.

The Trump administration also sharpens its attacks on the National Science Foundation, the government agency, the basic science, mathematics and engineering research, especially at universities and universities.

On May 2, the White House submitted a preliminary budget request to reduce $ 4.7 billion or more than half of the agency's budget in the amount of USD $ 9 billion. This is followed by two earlier waves of the cancellations in April and financing cuts in other public institutions.

What proposes Europe?

According to Trump's movements, the EU hopes to offer a political safe haven and also “to defend a political safe haven and academics [the EU’s] Strategic interests and promote a universalist vision, ”said an official in Macron's office of the AFP news agency.

The conference on Monday in Paris is the latest move to open the doors of Europe to US researchers. In April, Macron appealed to the US US employees to “select France” and to present plans for a financing program to bring the costs for foreign scientists into the country.

“We were pretty outraged by what happened, and we had the feeling that our colleagues in the United States had a catastrophe. We wanted to offer those whose research hindered a kind of scientific asylum,” said Eric Berton, President of Aix-Marseille University, who was located in Great Britain in Great Britain.

The European Research Council, an EU body that finances scientific work, announced the Reuters news agency that it would double its moving budget to finance researchers who would move to the EU to 2 million euros (USD 2.16 million) per applicant.

The British government creates a similar initiative. The system is supported by around 50 million pounds ($ 66 million) and is intended to support research grants and cover the moving costs for selected teams of scientists, mainly from the USA.

In Germany, conservative and social democrats have drawn plans as part of the coalition talks for a new government to attract up to 1,000 researchers, according to the negotiation documents from March, which are seen by Reuters who indicate the upheaval in the US universities.

“The American government is currently using Brute Force against the universities in the United States, so researchers from America now contact Europe,” said Friedrich Merz, in April, in Germany's chancellor. “This is a great opportunity for us.”

Is Europe able to poach US scientists?

Europe has stayed behind the USA for decades when it comes to investing in university education.

According to Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, total expenditure for research and development in the EU between companies, governments and universities in 2023 was 381 billion euros ($ 411 billion).

In the same year, according to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, a federal data agency, $ 940 billion was estimated at USD 940 billion.

And the richest US university, Harvard, has a foundation worth $ 53.2 billion, while that of the British (and Europe) richest University of Oxford is $ 10.74 billion.

“I have not foreseen any rapid structure of additional scientific skills that the United States could now … for several decades,” said Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University in New Jersey, recently to Reuters.

Some US scientists have pointed out what they see as another disadvantage – European language barriers and unknown laws and employment practices. In addition, research financing and the researchers remove the researchers far behind.

The choice of Europa for Science is expected to counteract this concerns by arguing that the gaps in the university, the gaps in the university, will appear less significant if the lower educational costs, health care and the more generous social benefits are taken into account.

What was the answer so far?

Aix-Marseille University in southern France said it received interest from 120 researchers in the United States, including NASA and Stanford University in California, in the 15 million euro program “Safe Space for Science”, which started on March 7.

The initiative aims to attract US researchers from areas such as health, medicine, epidemiology and climate change.

In a letter to French universities in March, Philippe wrote Baptiste, France's Minister of University Formation and Research,: “Many well -known researchers already question their future in the United States. Of course we would like to welcome a certain number of them.”

Elsewhere, the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, which specializes in climate change research, has created two scholarships for early career research researchers from the USA and has already seen an increase in applications.

An official from Macron's office said that the conference will be held on Monday at a time when the academic freedoms withdraw and are threatened in a number of cases and Europe is a continent of attractiveness.

Nevertheless, Europe is not against controversial immune. Germany was accused