The executive Federal Education and Research Minister Cem Özdemir wants to recruit scientists from the USA. “If researchers from the United States- but also worldwide- are interested in working in Germany, we see this as an opportunity for our excellent research and innovation location that we want to use,” said the Greens politician Editorial network Germany (RND). The German university and science system offers numerous research programs and scholarships.
Previously, leading scientists in Germany had called on to target researchers from the United States that suffer from President Donald Trump’s government policy. The so-called Meitner-Einstein program should therefore be aimed at scientists whose work in the USA not, or can only be continued to a limited extent.
European concept for recording researchers
Özdemir said that there is “a broad understanding of strengthening Germany and Europe now”. To do this, “a broad concept is needed and best European”. He had already exchanged his French counterpart and signaled the EU Commission “that the EU should use existing measures to support talented scientists from countries that suffer from political and financial influence”. The future federal government can directly connect to it.
Most recently, hundreds of leading scientists from the fields of engineering and medicine of the US government had In an open letter, an “major attack on American science” accused. This could throw back research and threaten the health and security of the Americans, it said.
