A week after launching its SAFE Place for Science call for tenders (“A safe place for science”), Aix-Marseille University (AMU) has already received numerous applications. “About fifty arriving by all channels: emails, social networks, but also via our laboratory directors who are in contact with researchers in the United States”notes Eric Berton, the president of Amu, “Proud that the initiative is so successful”.
The program, imagined in the wake of the Stand Up for Science movement, aims to accommodate the Sites of the Provencal University of Scientists prevented from continuing their research in the United States by the measures taken by Donald Trump. “These are Give scientific asylum to all these colleagues who are hampered, licensed or whose aid has been cut. Out of solidarity, but also because what is happening there impacts our research ”completes Eric Berton.
Tuesday, March 11, AMU, which has 120 research units and 80,000 students, welcomed the first of these potential recruits. Andrea, a 39-year-old doctor in epidemiology, assistant professor at a large state university in the American northeast, does not want us to identify him. “Because I have not yet had an official offer here, but also because I would like to personally depart my departure to the students and the postdochorator for which I am responsible”she explains.
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