Europe offers refuge to America’s researchers

Programmes to recruit researchers from the US, including chemists, are proliferating in Europe and elsewhere. This comes as many scientists working for the US government have lost their jobs amid moves to increase efficiencies, cut science agency budgets and unprecedented attacks on universities following Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

A dozen European nations have outlined schemes they are developing to attract researchers who want to leave the US and other countries, in a recent letter to the EU commissioner for research and innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva.