How To Plug Europe's Brain Drain
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Europe's best and brightest scientific minds are leaving in droves for
the U.S. ? and billions of euros and thousands of jobs are at stake.
Here's how Europe is trying to lure them back

By JEFF CHU

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2004; 15.48GMT
When Valerio Dorrello looks around his lab, he sees a miniature
European Union. As the afternoon sun streams in, the Italian
postdoctoral fellow stands at his sink, changing solutions for one of
his experiments. A Spanish colleague, Virginia Amador, pours a gel
between glass plates, while a German researcher named Tarig Bashir
works on a computer nearby. Their primary investigator, Michele
Pagano, is Italian. Two other postdocs are Italian, too, while two
more are French. There's such a jumble of languages in the group,
which is doing cancer research, that its members have talked about
putting up a keyword chart by the telephone with basic phrases in all
their languages, "so anyone can say, 'He's not here' in Italian if my
mom calls," says Dorrello, punctuating his Neapolitan-accented
staccato with laughs. "We're going to make it with flags and
everything."

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The Gender Gap
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Giving Girl Power a Boost

By JEFF CHU

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2004; 15.48GMT
When Helga Nowotny, an Austrian sociologist of science, arrived for a
fellowship at Berlin's Institute for Advanced Study in 1981, only one
of the 19 other fellows was female. Today, Nowotny is back at the
Institute as a visiting academic, and things have changed. "Almost
half of the fellows are women," she says. "Sometimes you have to give
men a little push. By raising awareness, they will include women in
committees and projects."

There and Back Again
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Around 400,000 E.U.-born science graduates live in the U.S. Thousands
more go to study and work each year. But the E.U. needs 700,000 more
researchers by 2010. Can Europe bring its best and brightest back
home?

By JEFF CHU

Why They Leave

* Inadequate resources, including poor facilities and low pay

* Stifling bureaucracy, especially in France and Germany , hurts
efficiency

* Better career opportunities abroad. Europeans fill academic postdoc
jobs that Americans shun in favor of industry

A Blueprint for the Future
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