PS wants to make the French community home for attacked American scientists
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The PS group in the parliament of the French Community has submitted a proposal for resolution to turn the French community into a home port for American scientists who were censored or dismissed by the US government or lost their financing.
Source: Belga
Yesterday at 7:51 PM
« Scientific knowledge is a common good that cannot be subject to an ideology. In that context, it is our responsibility as a community attached to academic freedom, to strengthen and open our research and open research to those who cannot do any research today, » says Fraction leader Martin Casier.
The resolution asks the French Community to openly support the ‘Stand Up For Science’ movement, as a home country for the scientists who are forced to exile by the PROGRY of the Trump, and to support our scientists affected by that policy.
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The text also recommends that the French community cooperates with the universities and the Fund for Scientific Research to identify the existing reception resources, to facilitate the procedures for the researchers involved, actively promote the available positions and to strengthen the existing reception facilities.
