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Macron and von der Leyen call foreign researchers to choose Europe
Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen call for foreign researchers, particularly threatened in the United States by the policies of the Trump administration, by organizing the conference of Europe for Science on Monday, with the key to possible financial incentives to attract them. “We must lucidly draw the consequences of these upheavals” and “set up the necessary conditions for a reception policy In solidarity, “said the Minister of National education, Higher Education and Research Elisabeth Borne, during the opening speech. European Union already welcomes” 25% of world researchers “and” Each euro invested today through the Horizon Europe framework program will generate 11 euros in GDP by 2045 “, said the European Commissioner for Research Zaharieva. Event will be closed at the end of the morning by the French president and that of the European Commission, in the premises of the prestigious university campus of the Sorbonne, in the heart of Paris. The president had announced the holding of the conference in mid-April, when a Choose France for Science was launched. Before the announcement of a similar initiative of the National Center for French Research (CNRS), the first European organization in number of researchers. It is a question of showing “at a time when academic freedoms experience a certain number of reflux or threats, that Europe is a continent of attractiveness”, according to the Elysée. From the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January, researchers and universities Academic and research mined, sanded funding.- “Choosing Europe” – the conference on Monday must give rise to announcements and reflections on the future. For France, “there are credits, amounts” which will be announced, possibly in the form of tax incentives, said an counselor of the Elysée. The Choose France for Science platform indicates that the State could abound up to 50% of certain research projects, to merit. But the operators await an advertisement on the global envelope. The initiative makes the teeth of the French unions of higher education and research which consider it “shocking, even indecent”. They denounce the “chronic under-funding” of the sector, “forced groups” of establishments, but also “from almost incessant attacks to academic freedom”, recalling controversies over wokism at university. For the director of Inserm, Didier Samuel, “there has been a reinvestment on research” in recent years but “we have not yet filled the hole”. “We have to maintain” this dynamic “and that” we amplify it “, he estimated on Franceinfo.rien has not yet filtered measures that could announce Ursula von der Leyen, who made the on Tuesday that Brussels would be on Tuesday to help. Researchers to +choose Europe +”. It is a question of making France and the old continent more attractive, where the remuneration and the amounts devoted to research are very below the United States. Even if the continent has assets in this area, whether in the quality of research infrastructures for their work or in the reception for their families. American industrialists. As in particular the databases, many of which are international, and whose access to some could be threatened by decisions of the American administration. The second on the means of fighting European dependencies in terms of research, while the American disengagement of many partnerships “can have consequences on our security, in particular in terms of health monitoring, and on major cooperation programs”, like those related to the climate, according to the Elysée. European universities and research institutes. Represented by her ambassador, Italy said that it considered freedom of research as an “essential foundation of any scientific and cultural progress”. For the European meeting scheduled for May 23 in Brussels remains “the most appropriate institutional format” to “define together – and not only from a national perspective – of concrete common policies”, said the Italian Embassy in France. PCL-FFF-Mep-Ber/CHL/PTA
