Overview

• Trump administration restrictions on topics such as climate change and gender studies drove almost 300 American researchers to seek placements in Marseille.
• Launched in March, the Safe Place for Science programme shortlisted 39 candidates and offers three-year placements for twenty scholars.
• Eight researchers arrived on June 26 to begin work under the initiative’s €15 million funding envelope.
• Participants include experts from Berkeley, Stanford and NASA working across disciplines from astrophysics to anthropology.
• Programme organisers are advancing proposals in French parliament to establish a legal status for 'scientific refugees'.