Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

What they were offering – through a programme titled Safe Place for Science – was a sort of “scientific asylum”, offering three years of funding at their facility for about 20 researchers.
On Thursday the university said it had received 298 applications in a month, of which 242 were deemed eligible. The applicants hailed from institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Nasa, Columbia, Yale and Stanford, it said in a statement.
Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging, the university’s president, Eric Berton, wrote in the French newspaper Libération.