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Top minds are leaving Britain for Spain amid concerns over the effects of Brexit and the cost of living crisis in the UK.
Almost a third, or 32.8 per cent, of the 58 top researchers who won places on Spain’s ATRAE (Attract) scheme had been working in the UK.
Britain lost the largest number of scientists to Spain, according to the countries whose scientists applied for posts on the ATRAE scheme. Almost all of those who left the UK were foreign scientists based in Britain.
Designed to attract the top brains from around the world, the programme offers scientists €1m (£868,500) each to set up a team and carry out research at academic institutions in Spain.
Last week the Spanish government approved the last round for this year’s €45m (£39m) scheme for leading scientists in their fields.
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That’s ok, the UK can just replace them all with the ones that are fleeing the United States.
Sounds like a win-win-win. A win for EU, a win for the UK and a gigantic loss framed as a win for the US
There are ton of phds needing jobs anyways even before his election they will be fine
Am I misunderstanding this article, or is it literally talking about 19 people? 19 people who were offered a very large amount of money to move.
Yep, seems that way.
Yeah if we’re using anecdotal data, the company I work at has more than 19 Spanish software developers working in London. Maybe there’s a rebalancing going on, but since 2008 there has been a huge exodus of skilled workers from Spain.
If you leave off the Brexit part, ot rhymes pretty well. Even Bri-tain!
They knew.
