DW - "Great Opportunity" For Max Planck Institut As Applications From US Scientists Spike 2-300% [View all]

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"We can suddenly recruit talent that we would not have been able to attract under normal circumstances," said Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society in Germany. The prospect of a US science brain drain is seen as "a great opportunity for Europe as a research location," said Cramer.

Applications from US scientists to the group of 84 Max Planck Institutes have at least doubled and, in some cases, tripled. "But for research as a whole, it is a clear step backwards, something that worries me greatly," he said.

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"It's important to stand ready to take in outstanding researchers who have to or want to leave the US," said Christina Beck, head of communications at the Max Planck Society in Munich. Beck told DW that universities and research centers around Germany were "expecting a lot more applications from the US." Some European research institutes were looking to attract US-based researchers by making it easier for them to relocate and continue their work here.

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Some European science funders warn against exploiting the challenges US-based scientists face. "We should avoid saying 'God, they are having a bad time over there, now let's go and snatch them all back,'" said Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council, at the European Parliament in February. But many others feel that Trump's science policies will affect science globally and say that that is what they are fighting against. As some expressed in that article in Nature
, scientific research is an inherently international, collaborative effort. And there are indications that some of the cuts to US research have already affected projects in other countries.

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https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-assault-on-science-bad-for-the-us-good-for-eu/a-71897988