Increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe now confirmed
The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted. On top of its standard grants, the ERC offers additional 'start-up' funding to he
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If you know of or are yourself a researcher seeking a stable environment where the rule of law, academic freedom, and human rights are respected, the ERC has now quite significantly increased its financial incentives to move to Europe. It is often the case that leading researchers have already emigrated to wherever the best perceived environment for them to achieve results is and are thus especially sensitive (and reactive) to changes thereof. The ERC scientific council raised its "start-up" funding with full consciousness of US-based researchers' emerging challenges but as always, scientific prowess is the only evaluation criterion across all applicants wherever they may be based - this just endeavors to match grant supply to increased demand.
Some US governmental agencies that previously were the very pinnacles of science in their fields have experienced especially hard disruptions, some of the damage is said to be extensive on an institutional level (I've already heard descriptions of decadal rebuilding challenges). I surmise that across the international, well connected academic and research community this is very much an effort to salvage, as much as it can, the knowledge and experience of those very researchers who are indispensable in many fields such as medicine, epidemiology, climate, etc.
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