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.
  • Year: 2025
  • DOI:10.26356/ALLEA-ACADEMIC-FREEDOM-STATEMENT
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INSTITUTIONAL SIGNATORIES (in alphabetical order)

  1. Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Academy of Sciences of Lisbon)
  2. Academia de Psicología de España (Academy of Psychology of Spain)
  3. Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences)
  4. Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium)
  5. Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  6. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy
  7. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy
  8. Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience
  9. Advisory Committee Diverse and Inclusive Higher Education and Research, Netherlands
  10. Algemene Onderwijsbond (General Education Union – AOb), Netherlands
  11. Amsterdam Business School
  12. Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AUMC)
  13. Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health (AIMH)
  14. Asociación Nacional de Investigadores Hospitalarios (National Association of Hospital Researchers – ANIH), Spain
  15. Association of Doctoral Organisations in Norway (SiN)
  16. Association of ERC Grantees (AERG)
  17. Association for Psychological Science (APS), International
  18. Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
  19. Austrian Chemical Society – GÖCH
  20. Austrian Neuroscience Association
  21. Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC)
  22. BAP Academy, Turkiye
  23. Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
  24. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Germany
  25. Bilim Akademisi (Science Academy), Turkiye
  26. Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  27. Brazilian Association of Ecology and Conservation Science
  28. British Ecological Society
  29. Caribbean Applied Engineering and Science Research Foundation
  30. Centro Interdisciplinare Linceo Giovani, Italy
  31. Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
  32. Centre for Business History, Stockholm
  33. Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria
  34. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
  35. Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft, Germany
  36. Czech Academy of Sciences
  37. Coimbra Group
  38. Confederacion de Sociedades Cientificas de España (COSCE)
  39. Council of Finnish Academies
  40. Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru (The Learned Society of Wales)
  41. Danish Statistical Society
  42. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Netherlands
  43. Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Science, University of Turin, Italy
  44. Die Junge Academy (Young Academy of Germany)
  45. Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (DARC) at Aarhus University
  46. Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  47. Donders Institute, Radboud University, Netherlands
  48. Dutch Research Council (NWO)
  49. Dutch Young Academy
  50. Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium
  51. Ehrensvärd Society, Finland
  52. Einstein Foundation Berlin
  53. Epigenetics Society, International
  54. European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
  55. European Chemical Society (EuChemS)
  56. European Countries Biologists Association
  57. European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
  58. European Society for Clinical Virology
  59. Erasmus University Rotterdam
  60. Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Netherlands
  61. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  62. Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Netherlands
  63. Federación de Asociaciones Científico Médicas Españolas (Federation of Spanish Scientific and Medical Associations – FACME)
  64. Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM)
  65. Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
  66. FEPAD, Burundi
  67. Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes
  68. Finnish Institute in Japan
  69. Finnish Medical Society Duodecim
  70. Finnish Physical Society
  71. Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Flanders, Belgium
  72. Forskerbevægelsen / Movement for a Free Academia in Denmark
  73. Foundation for Refugee Students (UAF), Netherlands
  74. Fryske Akademy, Netherlands
  75. Geneva Science-Policy Interface, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  76. German Chemical Society (GDCh)
  77. German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  78. German Society for Music Psychology (DGM)
  79. Ghent University, Belgium
  80. Global Stress & Resilience Network
  81. Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  82. Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), United Kingdom
  83. Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  84. International Astronomical Union (subworking group Ethical Behavior in Astronomy)
  85. International Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICoRSA)
  86. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
  87. International Meteor Organization
  88. International Resilience Alliance e.V. (INTRESA)
  89. International Society for Plant Pathology
  90. Irish Research Staff Association
  91. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  92. Italian Association fo Plant Protection (Associazione Italiana per la Protezione delle Piante, AIPP)
  93. Italian Society for Cytometric Cell Analysis
  94. Italian Society of Ecology
  95. Italian Society of Plant Pathology
  96. Kohtuus ry, Finland
  97. Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV, Royal Netherlands Chemical Society)
  98. Lancet Regional Health-Europe, Lancet
  99. Leiden University
  100. Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg (Germany)
  101. Maastricht University, Netherlands
  102. Movement for a Free Academia in the Nordic Countries
  103. Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and SHARE Analyses (MEA)
  104. Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen (NIP, Netherlands Institute of Psychologists)
  105. Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences
  106. Netherlands Institute for Biology (NIBI)
  107. Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
  108. New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Romania
  109. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA)
  110. OIKOS (National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands)
  111. Open Universiteit, Netherlands
  112. Paracelsus Private Medical University, Austria & Germany
  113. Radboud Institute for Culture and History, Radboud University, Netherlands
  114. Radboud Young Academy, Netherlands
  115. Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España (Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences)
  116. Research Council of Norway
  117. Romanian Academy
  118. Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
  119. Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature
  120. Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona (RACAB)
  121. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
  122. Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  123. Royal Irish Academy
  124. Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV)
  125. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
  126. Royal Netherlands Historical Society
  127. Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS)
  128. Royal Observatory of Belgium
  129. Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), UK
  130. Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
  131. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  132. RSE Young Academy of Scotland, UK
  133. Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
  134. Science & Policy Exchange, Canada
  135. Science Europe
  136. Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany
  137. Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), International
  138. Slovak Academy of Sciences
  139. Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – SEBBM)
  140. Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (Spanish Society of Epidemiology – SEE)
  141. Sociedad Española de Genética (Spanish Society of Genetics – SEG)
  142. Sociedad Española de Investigación sobre Cannabinoides (Spanish Cannabinoid Research Society)
  143. Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciencia (Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science – SBPC)
  144. Société Française d’Ecologie et d’Evolution (French Society for Ecology and Evolution)
  145. Society for Music Education and Psychology Research
  146. Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology (AEET)
  147. Spanish Biophysical Society
  148. Spanish Society of Positive Psycholgy
  149. Spanish Stress Research Network (REIS)
  150. Stichting Onderwijs Midden-Limburg (SOML), Netherlands
  151. Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University
  152. Strength and Serenity, The Massachusetts General Hospital Initiative to end Gender-Based Violence, USA
  153. Stress-NL, Netherlands
  154. Studies Center on Science, Communication and Society (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
  155. Swedish National Committee for History of Technology and Science
  156. Swedish Society of Literature
  157. Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
  158. Swiss School of Public Health
  159. Swiss Science Council
  160. Swiss Stress Network
  161. Tilburg University TSB Developmental Psychology Department
  162. TriasNet Consultants, Netherlands
  163. Unione Accademica Nazionale (National Academic Union – UAN), Italy
  164. Unisanté, University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland
  165. United Kingdom Young Academy
  166. Universiteiten van Nederland (Universities of the Netherlands)
  167. University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
  168. University of Groningen, Netherlands
  169. University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
  170. University of Twente, Netherlands
  171. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University Amsterdam), Netherlands
  172. Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
  173. Wissenschaft im Dialog, Germany
  174. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/ Institute for Advanced Study
  175. Y-Säätiö sr, Finland
  176. Young Academy of Belgium (Flanders)
  177. Young Academy Finland
  178. Young Academy of Norway
  179. Young Academy of Spain
  180. Young Academy of Sweden