ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States
Recent restrictions on science and scholarship by the new U.S. Administration’s executive orders freezing billions in federal research funding and censoring research on topics such as climate change and gender has prompted ALLEA to respond with this statement calling for our members, partners, and like-minded organisations, and urging national governments and international institutions in the U.S., Europe and beyond to remain vigilant and strengthen ongoing efforts to safeguard academic freedom and the autonomy of scientific institutions.
If you would like to join the efforts to stand up for Academic Freedom, consider:
- Endorsing the statement on behalf of your organisation by clicking on the link below or encouraging your organisation to endorse the statement. [Institutional endorsements only!]
- Sharing the statement with your networks to raise awareness.
- Engaging with national and regional policymakers to reinforce the importance of academic freedom.
INSTITUTIONAL SIGNATORIES (in alphabetical order)
- Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Academy of Sciences of Lisbon)
- Academia de Psicología de España (Academy of Psychology of Spain)
- Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences)
- Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium)
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy
- Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience
- Advisory Committee Diverse and Inclusive Higher Education and Research, Netherlands
- Algemene Onderwijsbond (General Education Union – AOb), Netherlands
- Amsterdam Business School
- Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AUMC)
- Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health (AIMH)
- Asociación Nacional de Investigadores Hospitalarios (National Association of Hospital Researchers – ANIH), Spain
- Association of Doctoral Organisations in Norway (SiN)
- Association of ERC Grantees (AERG)
- Association for Psychological Science (APS), International
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
- Austrian Chemical Society – GÖCH
- Austrian Neuroscience Association
- Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC)
- BAP Academy, Turkiye
- Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
- Bilim Akademisi (Science Academy), Turkiye
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Brazilian Association of Ecology and Conservation Science
- British Ecological Society
- Centro Interdisciplinare Linceo Giovani, Italy
- Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
- Centre for Business History, Stockholm
- Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
- Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Germany
- Czech Academy of Sciences
- Coimbra Group
- Confederacion de Sociedades Cientificas de España (COSCE)
- Council of Finnish Academies
- Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru (The Learned Society of Wales)
- Danish Statistical Society
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Netherlands
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Science, University of Turin, Italy
- Die Junge Academy (Young Academy of Germany)
- Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (DARC) at Aarhus University
- Donders Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands
- Dutch Research Council (NWO)
- Dutch Young Academy
- Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium
- Ehrensvärd Society, Finland
- Einstein Foundation Berlin
- Epigenetics Society, International
- European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
- European Chemical Society (EuChemS)
- European Countries Biologists Association
- European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
- European Society for Clinical Virology
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Netherlands
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Netherlands
- Federación de Asociaciones Científico Médicas Españolas (Federation of Spanish Scientific and Medical Associations – FACME)
- Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM)
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
- Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes
- Finnish Institute in Japan
- Finnish Medical Society Duodecim
- Finnish Physical Society
- Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Flanders, Belgium
- Forskerbevægelsen / Movement for a Free Academia in Denmark
- Fryske Akademy, Netherlands
- Geneva Science-Policy Interface, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- German Chemical Society (GDCh)
- German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- German Society for Music Psychology (DGM)
- Ghent University, Belgium
- Global Stress & Resilience Network
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), United Kingdom
- Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- International Astronomical Union (subworking group Ethical Behavior in Astronomy)
- International Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICoRSA)
- International Meteor Organization
- International Resilience Alliance e.V. (INTRESA)
- International Society for Plant Pathology
- Irish Research Staff Association
- Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Italian Association fo Plant Protection (Associazione Italiana per la Protezione delle Piante, AIPP)
- Italian Society for Cytometric Cell Analysis
- Italian Society of Ecology
- Italian Society of Plant Pathology
- Kohtuus ry, Finland
- Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV, Royal Netherlands Chemical Society)
- Lancet Regional Health-Europe, Lancet
- Leiden University
- Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg (Germany)
- Movement for a Free Academia in the Nordic Countries
- Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and SHARE Analyses (MEA)
- Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen (NIP, Netherlands Institute of Psychologists)
- Netherlands Institute for Biology (NIBI)
- Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
- New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Romania
- Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA)
- OIKOS (National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands)
- Open Universiteit, Netherlands
- Paracelsus Private Medical University, Austria & Germany
- Radboud Institute for Culture and History, Radboud University, Netherlands
- Radboud Young Academy, Netherlands
- Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España (Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences)
- Research Council of Norway
- Romanian Academy
- Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature
- Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona (RACAB)
- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
- Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Royal Irish Academy
- Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV)
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- Royal Netherlands Historical Society
- Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS)
- Royal Observatory of Belgium
- Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), UK
- Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- RSE Young Academy of Scotland, UK
- Science & Policy Exchange, Canada
- Science Europe
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany
- Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), International
- Slovak Academy of Sciences
- Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – SEBBM)
- Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (Spanish Society of Epidemiology – SEE)
- Sociedad Española de Genética (Spanish Society of Genetics – SEG)
- Sociedad Española de Investigación sobre Cannabinoides (Spanish Cannabinoid Research Society)
- Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciencia (Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science – SBPC)
- Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology (AEET)
- Spanish Biophysical Society
- Spanish Society of Positive Psycholgy
- Spanish Stress Research Network (REIS)
- Stichting Onderwijs Midden-Limburg (SOML), Netherlands
- Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University
- Stress-NL, Netherlands
- Studies Center on Science, Communication and Society (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
- Swedish National Committee for History of Technology and Science
- Swedish Society of Literature
- Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
- Swiss School of Public Health
- Swiss Science Council
- Swiss Stress Network
- Tilburg University TSB Developmental Psychology Department
- TriasNet Consultants, Netherlands
- Universiteiten van Nederland (Universities of the Netherlands)
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
- University of Groningen, Netherlands
- University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
- University of Twente, Netherlands
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University Amsterdam), Netherlands
- Wissenschaft im Dialog, Germany
- Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/ Institute for Advanced Study
- Y-Säätiö sr, Finland
- Young Academy of Belgium (Flanders)
- Young Academy Finland
- Young Academy of Norway
- Young Academy of Spain
- Young Academy of Sweden