Initiatives are multiplying in EU countries including France, Germany and Austria to attract the talent being driven away by the US president’s policies
  • shaun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    10 days ago

    Unless you want to stay permanently, then you had better be ready for wave after wave of anti-immigration policy

    • Pip@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Those policies do not target researchers or other highly skilled migrants. Stop treating immigration as a monolithic block.

      • shaun@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Depends where in Europe you are. In many countries, immigration policy does treat immigrants as a monolithic block. I live in one of them. It may be easier to get a work visa as a highly skilled person, but it doesn’t change much when it gets to applying for permanent residency or citizenship.

    • huppakee@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      But only from like 50% of the people and those people don’t like Trump either so they actually understand you left your country. Also, the whiter you look the less people will see you as an immigrant. And once you tell people you have a job and pay taxes even the biggest racist suddenly stops caring about whether you are or aren’t a local.

  • Zweieck@lemmy.orgEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    Is it? We are completely underfunded and for our local universities 50-70% of buildings are in dire need of renovations. Granted, this has been exacerbated by the current administration, but the problems with the buildings have been brewing for years/decades.

    I am in Berlin btw.

    • Pip@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Real question: In which country is research properly funded?

      I heard that the issue in Germany is that the buildings are not funded nationally.

      • Zweieck@lemmy.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        I am not exactly sure how the financing works. The city made the current cuts to the budget, so I guess they are least finance a part of the universities.

        In theory the TU Berlin has the money to renovate one of their most important buildings (physics), but as far as I know the proposal was turned down (either internally or externally)

        So yeah, half of the physics department is kind of losing their workplace and laboratories right now. They even had a nobel laureate from japan write the mayor to say: “this research is important, they need the funding if we are to work with the TU in the future”

        Sorry for ranting. It’s a heated topic for me

        Edit: we are also talking about stuff like the ceiling coming down, no running water or (the opposite) pipes bursting. Some buildings are permanently closed now