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