“Europe Exam” in the United States and Science: Opportunity for Portugal?

A century ago, the gravitational center of world science was in Germany. One -third of the Nobel Prize in Science between 1919 and 1933 includes active scientists in this country, including Einstein, Van Lao, Blanc, Hyzenberg and Gustav Herts.

Author Palo George Ferrara *

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With the rise of Nazism, many scientists have taken refuge in the United States. At the end of the war, Europe has lost its most influential scientists to the United States, most European universities disaster and unable to welcome them again.

The repetition of skill has changed the global balance. Innovations such as radar and nuclear bomb transformed science into a greedy material. Did the rest of the race to the weapons and space. The United States created Darba and NASA and printed an ambitious agenda. Public investment in science has been filmed, and the US has said it is the new center of world science and technology.

A century later, the limits of educational independence and cuts in financial assistance are about the American scientific community, and some of its scientists can consider elsewhere. This can cause a new brain escape and ability to relax.

In the “nature” investigation, 75% of American scientists have been migrating. Europe is in the most attractive places. The “Economist” published a study based on the Galat data and conducted an annual between 2022-24 with 150,000 graduates from 135 countries. Portugal is the 12th country of the most preferred country by those who want to leave the United States.

If you are able to provide the appropriate environment with competitive funding, the stability and the freedom of thinking-portal for universities, economics and the country will be attractive.

However, there is an important condition. The Portuguese science and higher education system has weaknesses, for example at the financial and professional level. It is important not to harm the current efforts to improve it.

For this purpose, any program designed to make the country more attractive from the United States or elsewhere, except for the science and higher education system, is to find additional funding. It is time to act with ambition and speed, but even responsible.

The idea of ​​creating a “Europe” selected financial instrument that allows European university alliances to launch their own welcome plans. This may be the basis of a specific plan “Choose Portugal” just as Macron started in France.

It is important to think about it.

* Rector of Aviro University. Article published on the website UA.PT.

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