stem jobs are pretty much hard to come by , theres very little job market even in the states for fresh graduates, hence the unemployment problems, since alot of people go for CS, psych, bio/biotech(not nursing or teach). most of the current ones are looking for phd with experience, and everyones only looking for graduate degrees, because most employers rather not spend money/time to train a fresh graduate on low level work(very lazy), this is a catch22. there are jobs out there for undergrads, but its quite limited.
EU and countries (national funds or direct budgets) do have plans to invest in certain industries with perhaps more emphasis on manufacturing (which includes the war industry).
The plans are there & the funding discussions too (eg how to get financial industry like pension funds to invest).
The big questions surround the big investments, like chip & (atm*) battery production (it makes sense to have one or a few big investments, but not like 10s od high-end chips manufacturers).
*battery manufacturing should at some point become an ezv standard, but not that soon
It’s not like we take advantage of trump politics.
Not quite true:
“In May 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of the Choose Europe for Science program, with funding of approximately €500 million to attract American candidates.”
For all of Europe? That’s definitely not “huge”. Well, at least we’re willing. At the same time I guess any more than that might have attracted Trump’s negative attention and we don’t won’t that now, do we, Uschi?
But this doesn’t necessarily mean that Europe has tons of science jobs to offer, esp. for the usually young people who use the fediverse.
We’re doing our best to seize this moment and offer exactly that. Funds have been strategically released to benefit from this.
Europe did set aside a huge chunk of funding to attract the fleeing American scientists
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/increased-erc-funding-top-global-researchers-moving-europe-now-confirmed
stem jobs are pretty much hard to come by , theres very little job market even in the states for fresh graduates, hence the unemployment problems, since alot of people go for CS, psych, bio/biotech(not nursing or teach). most of the current ones are looking for phd with experience, and everyones only looking for graduate degrees, because most employers rather not spend money/time to train a fresh graduate on low level work(very lazy), this is a catch22. there are jobs out there for undergrads, but its quite limited.
EU and countries (national funds or direct budgets) do have plans to invest in certain industries with perhaps more emphasis on manufacturing (which includes the war industry).
The plans are there & the funding discussions too (eg how to get financial industry like pension funds to invest).
The big questions surround the big investments, like chip & (atm*) battery production (it makes sense to have one or a few big investments, but not like 10s od high-end chips manufacturers).
*battery manufacturing should at some point become an ezv standard, but not that soon
Jepp. While I know some Americans that came to European universities I know way more Europeans that went to china.
Because Germany decreased the research funding by quite a bit. It’s not like we take advantage of trump politics.
Not quite true:
“In May 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of the Choose Europe for Science program, with funding of approximately €500 million to attract American candidates.”
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/increased-erc-funding-top-global-researchers-moving-europe-now-confirmed
Ir should be an order of magnitude greater than that. But it’s better than nothing.
For all of Europe? That’s definitely not “huge”. Well, at least we’re willing. At the same time I guess any more than that might have attracted Trump’s negative attention and we don’t won’t that now, do we, Uschi?
500million is basically irrelevant.
So yes, they do something, but compared to the whole budget of research this doesn’t make a dent.