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
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  • mapto@masto.bgOP
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    3 days ago

    @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.

    • reabsorbthelight@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If so, that would effect the statistics and shift the effect higher. For my understanding, could you estimate the effect of the grants and the extent of the drain?

      • mapto@masto.bgOP
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        2 days ago

        @reabsorbthelight to give estimates, we’d need to see if the increased applications lead to increased awards to US researchers (which is quite probable). One of these grants leads to about a dozen new hires, and it’s very probable that senior researchers would want to pull their teams along.