Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

If they'd like engineers as well, I'm ready to go too.

If you are experienced and you accept EU salaries in exchange for a social system, you should be able to make it.
- Ah, I'm about to graduate. Not much prior experience. Damn.
Hello, US born engineer with only US passport, but I now live in Denmark working. Happy to answer any questions you have on it.
The super short is that it's been tough but very rewarding. We left before the last election so it wasn't specifically to run away from trump but that's kinda part of the idea lol
You might want to looking at your ancestry. Many European countries have citizenship by descent. Given that many Americans are originally at least partly from Europe, you might find that you are actually a European citizen.
- How do you do this?
  My grandparents are dead. Died before I was even born. Parents are maga so that's a nonstarter
- ... I actually fail from both sides. Without revealing personal history, let's just say I know one side of my family is not from Europe, and the other one is best described as "unknown, but fragmented enough that the answer is unlikely".
As far as I know, engineers are desperately sought after in Germany, for example. On the "Make it in Germany" website, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has a section with information for engineers.
Engineers also seem to be in demand in other European countries.
Maybe you'll find something with us – fingers crossed.
- What? My brother as an engineer spent almost a whole year job hunting in Germany. The current market is bad, with the car manufacturers (and their supply chain) kicking Out people left and right.
  It is currently very difficult to find good engineering jobs in Germany.

Additional context:

The program mentioned in the news is the ERC Advanced Grant. This is a grant for established PIs (professors, mostly) across all research fields and gives a shit ton of research funding... up to 2.5M EUR in five years (which looks like they'd give more for relocation?). I personally find increasing ERC funding a great thing to do, but this is in no way for normal ppl with normal careers lol, it's literally for "top researchers"

I'm surprised they didn't mention the record number of applicants for the Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship though. MSCA PF is specifically for non-European fresh PhD grads and new postdocs (so not quite top researchers, but close) who come to EU/EEA for work and vice-versa. They saw a record number of 17,058 proposals... +64.6% increase from 2024. Among this, only +17.1% (+181) for EU outbound, but a whopping +70.1% (+6,517) for inbound. I thought the MSCA numbers tells this story much clearer. Also fun fact, the MSCA PF funding pool got a -3.1% slight reduction despite the massive increase in submitted proposals... but anyways here is the 2024 report for scale

Thanks that brings a better perspective indeed!

That was how Germany lost its leading position in science in the 1930ies. It was not only Einstein but loads of world-renonwned scientists which emigrated. It even marked the end of German as a common language for top-level science publication.

16000 more project proposals this year, but have they increased the pay of those having to approve them? Nope 😭

Operation Pilcrepap

Isn’t most of Europe turning facist too? I’m genuinely asking because American media is reporting that Europe is becoming facist too.

European here. There are many countries in Europe and some are more right leaning than others. Overall, there was a growth in the right wing (commonly mentioned as far-right) on what seems mostly against immigration. Except for Hungary, we are far from fascism. We could end up with fascism as well, but not for now