Protecting scholars at risk and defending academic freedom?
The EU's new SAFE programme offers 60 fully funded scholarships to at-risk researchers from outside the EU. In this blog, Ine Lietaert argues that the programme is ethically problematic due to the limited number of scholarships, the competitive nature of the application process, and the focus on “excellence”, which disadvantages scholars from the Global South in many different situations.
Institutions
- United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- Primary Topic
- Political Science Research and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00