University of Luxembourg – multilingual, personalized, connected

Founded in 2003, the University of Luxembourg is the only public university of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. 

Multilingual, international and research-oriented, it is also a modern institution with a personal atmosphere.

University of Luxembourg’s vision statement ….. and at the same time part of Luxembourg’s vision as a country investing in knowledge, research and innovation:

“The University of Luxembourg aspires to be one of Europe’s most highly regarded universities with a distinctly international, multilingual and interdisciplinary character. It fosters the cross-fertilisation of research and teaching, is relevant to its country, known worldwide for its research and teaching in targeted areas, and becomes an innovative model for contemporary European Higher Education (…)”

https://wwwen.uni.lu/

An internationally relevant Research University:

• With students originating from 115 countries, academic staff from 20 countries as well as 78 partner universities around the globe, “internationality” is probably one of the qualifiers which characterises us best. In fact, we need internationalism, especially to organise the mobility of our students, as all of our bachelor students study at least one semester abroad. Furthermore, the University has several cross-border bi- or tri-national bachelor and master degrees and a part of its PhD candidates work towards a joint or double PhD degree.
• The three languages we use, several master programmes in reference to Europe, the background of our personnel and the country, as well as adjunct staff coming from many European institutions, make us more European than most other universities.
• In 2015, the University of Luxembourg raised 42 million euros of external research funds derived from funds of the European Union, the National Research Fund, endowed chairs and other partners. In the same year, our researchers have published a total of 1,096 scientific works. With 613 PhD candidates, doctoral research contributes strongly to our research output as well.
• Interdisciplinarity is gradually becoming a dominant feature of our research activity: two interdisciplinary centres (SnT and LCSB), a FNR PEARL grant combining chairs in Sociology and Economy, the chair funded by satellite operator SES in Space law as well as cross-disciplinary teaching modules for our students are examples.

A University well connected to the Business and to Society of Luxembourg, contributing to the country’s future:

• Partnership with the business world has played a major role in our development. We now have six chairs, five of which were funded by companies and one by the city of Esch-sur-Alzette. Several banks (Deutsche Bank, Banque et Caisse d’épargne de l’état) as well as several companies (Arcelor-Mittal, IEE, HiTec, P&T Luxembourg, SES, Eurobeton, Delphi…) finance research. The Chamber of Commerce co-finances the Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Many of our master students and PhD candidates undertake their thesis in close collaboration with an industrial or business partner, and are often co-financed by the company. Many person of the staff are coming from the business world.
• Society is another of our references. Examples are a Jean Monnet Chair in Contemporary European History and a UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, a large number of conferences, lectures, and debates open to the general public and a summer university for secondary school pupils. We carry out contract work for different ministries and several research projects are supported by a variety of organisations.
• 850 professional experts (scientific and research staff) support 250 professors, assistant professors and lecturers in their teaching

Three faculties, three interdisciplinary centres

• The Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC)
• The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF)
• The Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE)
• The Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
• The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)
• Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)

Studies: Bachelor - Master - Ph.D.

• 12 bachelor degrees, 42 master degrees and 4 doctoral schools based on the Bologna Accords
• 13 vocational training and lifelong learning training courses
• Bachelor students have to spend one semester abroad
• Multilingualism: programmes generally taught in two languages French/English or French/German, some in three and some entirely taught in English
• Academic staff originates from 20 different countries
• Around 6,200 students originate from 120 different countries

Research

• 5 high-priority research areas
• 11 research units
• 8 endowed chairs
• 4 doctoral schools