Mass migration of US scientists to Europe
“According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union’s premier funding agency for basic research, applications from the United States for its starting, consolidator and advanced grants to individual researchers — worth up to €2.5 million apiece over five years — rose by 120% in its most recent round of calls, compared with an overall rise in applications of 17% (see ‘Choosing Europe’).”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00362-w
@science
“Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114. The ERC does not routinely publish information on the nationalities of applicants, but Kieron Flanagan, a science-policy researcher at the University of Manchester, says that he suspects many of these senior researchers are Europe-born or Europe-trained, and are “opting to use the ERC grant as a mechanism to escape the US system””
“The EC has budgeted €175 billion for the 10th Framework Programme, a follow-up to Horizon Europe starting in 2028. Eurodoc has called for a budget of €220 billion, Dengo says. “Without a substantial increase in funding, and with Europe-based researchers already facing intense competition, additional incoming mobility will inevitably further increase pressure on the system.””
this what Chinese netizens were criticizing when the ccp was trying to lure some STEM professional from the states, they already dont have jobs and are mad that they are gifting foreigners.
Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114.
So 114 applications for one? It would be important to see the raw numbers because even 10x of 114 is miniscule.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d24/tables/dt24_315.20.asp
840k full-time professors at US universities. And Europe would probably get the lower tiers because why would a tenured US professor give up their tenure to move to Europe.
So article cites 114 for one grant. Let’s assume 100x that, so 11,400 professors coming over. That’s a little over 1% of professors
@reabsorbthelight an average full-time professor does not cover the requirements for an advanced grants. That’s why an average full-time professor doesn’t get several millions of funding.
I thought i heard about fascism brain-drain happening in the 1930s and early 1940s, although obviously that time they were LEAVING Europe to come to the United States…
… I wonder how much of America’s delusions of “excellence” can be traced directly to so many of the smart people fleeing Hitler.
Perhaps the 21st century will take a shape that shall reflect how all the education, skill, and expertise fled Trump.
It is at least thematically appropriate that he’s objectively such a moron that he literally repels intellect.
It also happened after the war.
The us gov secretly brought over a couple thousand.
Many were known SS/Nazi.
only useful for scientists or MDs, anyone less(BS or MS) than that likely doesnt have a career in the field.
Not in NL. If you have any high demand skill, you can be eligible for the 30% ruling.
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