"According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union’s premier funding agency for basic research, applications from the United States for its starting, consolidator and advanced grants to individual researchers — worth up to €2.5 million apiece over five years — rose by 120% in its most recent round of calls, compared with an overall rise in applications of 17% (see ‘Choosing Europe’)."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00362-w
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[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If so, that would effect the statistics and shift the effect higher. For my understanding, could you estimate the effect of the grants and the extent of the drain?

[–] mapto@masto.bg 2 points 4 hours ago

@reabsorbthelight to give estimates, we'd need to see if the increased applications lead to increased awards to US researchers (which is quite probable). One of these grants leads to about a dozen new hires, and it's very probable that senior researchers would want to pull their teams along.