France is rolling out the red carpet for global researchers\u2014right as the U.S. pulls it out from under theirs.<\/p>\n
In a bold effort to attract scientific minds affected by funding cutbacks abroad, French President Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> has launched a national campaign to position his country as a global sanctuary for research talent.<\/p>\n \u201cResearchers from around the world, choose France, choose Europe,\u201d Macron urged in an April 19 LinkedIn post<\/a>, framing the initiative as a strategic move in light of shifting international research dynamics.<\/p>\n Don’t Miss:<\/strong><\/p>\n France\u2019s National Research Agency, which operates under the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, announced the \u201cChoose France for Science\u201d initiative on April 19.<\/p>\n The program provides dedicated funding and infrastructure support for international scientists looking to continue their work in France. According to ANR<\/a>, this initiative is a response to what it described as an \u201cunprecedented wave of mobility among researchers around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Among the first to publicly support the initiative was Meta\u2019s (NASDAQ:META<\/a>) chief AI scientist and a native of France, Yann LeCun<\/strong>. \u201cAttempting to attract scientists from the U.S. to France is a smart move by President Macron,\u201d he said in an April 20 LinkedIn post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trending: Many are using retirement income calculators to check if they\u2019re on pace \u2014 here\u2019s a breakdown on what\u2019s behind this formula.<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n He had previously warned<\/a> that the U.S. \u201cseems set on destroying its public research funding system\u201d and said “many U.S.-based scientists are seeking a \u201cPlan B.\u201d<\/p>\n That concern isn\u2019t theoretical. According to Nature<\/a>, recent U.S. federal budget decisions have led to the termination of roughly 770 research grants by the National Institutes of Health, impacting scientific disciplines like climate change mitigation and HIV\/AIDS prevention.<\/p>\n The state of Utah alone is projected to lose $126 million and 545 jobs due to proposed caps on NIH indirect funding, Axios reported<\/a> on April 23. One casualty of these cuts was a global study on COVID-19 vaccine safety, which was shut down 13 months before completion, as reported by The Guardian<\/a> on April 24.<\/p>\n See Also: Hasbro, MGM, and Skechers trust this AI marketing firm \u2014 Invest before it’s too late.<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In response, nearly 300 researchers applied to a French university program specifically aimed at hosting American academics affected by these U.S. policies, The Guardian reported<\/a>. The French engineering school CentraleSup\u00e9lec even pledged $3.2 million to continue American-led research abandoned in the U.S., according to the institution\u2019s announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Story Continues <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France is rolling out the red carpet for global researchers\u2014right as the U.S. pulls it out from under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,2000,299,36,43718,48800,3859,48801,1017],"class_list":{"0":"post-106490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-president","13":"tag-global-researchers","14":"tag-linkedin","15":"tag-research-talent","16":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114517994735632260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}