2024-07-03 17:13:02
Since the thunder of release, the world of research has raised public positions to oppose the dangers that will accompany the coming to power of the National Rally (RN). Even before the first round of legislative elections, five French Nobel Prize winners, associated with many researchers, have shown, on June 25, in a forum Mondethat this will be “A serious and immediate threat to research and higher education in France”because “xenophobic and nationalist situations” WHO organization “it will isolate France from the international scientific community”. University of France, the Academy of Sciences and other scientific institutions have since expressed their concerns.
Beyond joint publications and conferences and seminars, we want to take the pulse of the studios, through the call for evidence launched on the website of Monde days after the first round of legislative elections. Many scientists from all walks of life responded. “anguish”, “nightmare”, “I’m scared, helpless, shocked”, “The wind is sad”, “I’m scared”, they sing. These concerns come as the far-right organization is silent about the investigation – our requests for details go unanswered.
The atmospheric change described is sometimes striking. “In my bedroom, I felt hatred around me after the elections”admit a biochemist, “noire”, very affected by the general climate, who prefers to find privacy. “Racist behavior would be self-exclusion for investigation. We will not attract the best in this way, and France will lose its attraction and influence. Knowledge has no colors »he added.
“Case Opened”
“RN in power means that we will not be able to welcome foreign colleagues, go see them – through surrender. We will not be able to welcome foreign students, who, by studying in our institutions, are the scientific partners of tomorrow’s France. However, scientific production is always an open matter, sharing, and exchanges.Christophe Peugeot explains, hydrologist at the Development Research Institute.
Statistics confirm this opening. If universities have 7.5% foreigners among their faculty researchers, this percentage rises to 23.1% in public research groups such as the CNRS, and even to 34% among the Pasteur and Curie institutes, respectively to the new position of the French scientist (2023). Among doctoral students in training, the share of foreign nationals is 40.9% in 2020-2021. Between 2019 and 2022, the share of publications of research articles within a French institution and at least one abroad is 63%.
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