Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
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Construction of a new building for biomedical research
Learn moreOn Tuesday, 29 November 2022, Claude Meisch, Minister of Research and Higher Education, and Simone Asselborn-Bintz, Mayor of Sanem, broke ground for the new Biotech 3 building on Campus Belval, in the presence of a university delegation and the developers of the building. The Biotech 3, opening scheduled for 2026, will foster interdisciplinary research and…
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Children in armed conflicts need education and support
Learn moreThe UNESCO Chair in Human Rights of the University of Luxembourg co-hosted an international conference on November 21 and 22 in the presence of HRH the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, together with the Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflict, under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Luxembourg. The two-day conference focused…
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Psychological mechanisms in math skills
Learn moreInhibition, mental set shifting, and memory updating are related to math skills in preschool children. These meta-analytic findings from a research project led by the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing and the University of Oslo were published in the Psychological Bulletin.
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Studying educational technology usages in Luxembourg
Learn moreAs a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many scholars and scientists have left the country. More than 30 Ukrainian researchers displaced by the war have temporarily joined the University of Luxembourg mainly as research fellows and in some cases under temporary contracts funded by the FNR. In this series of interviews, we briefly present…
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Inclusive Green Finance report launched by Uni.lu ADA Chair at COP27
Learn moreInclusive Green Finance (IGF) policies recognise the role of financial inclusion in building resilience to climate change impact and enable small-scale mitigation among the world’s most vulnerable people. This is the key message from the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) side event at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27).
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Orange Week: Exhibition on violence against women
Learn moreThe Orange Week raises awareness for the elimination of violence against women. On this occasion, the University organises an exhibition entitled “Behind the Numbers…”
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Active lipids enable intelligent swimming under nutrient limitation
Learn moreBiophysicists from the University of Luxembourg have uncovered how microplankton – key photosynthetic organisms which produce nearly 50% of the oxygen we breathe – adopt a thrifty lifestyle when nutrients turn limiting. They strategically harness internal lipids to regulate swimming properties to maximise their fitness.
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International ideas competition for new interdisciplinary centre
Learn moreThe University of Luxembourg will establish a new interdisciplinary centre (IC) for researching complex environmental systems. In an ideas competition or “Concours d’idées”, the University is inviting outstanding researchers from around the world to submit by 8 January 2023 concepts for the development of the centre. The scientists with the most innovative and most convincing…
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INSIDE COLON event – Boosting cancer prevention
Learn moreFrom 10 to 12 November (10.00-16.00)at the Cactus Belle Etoile shopping mall
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First Luxembourgish AI Model created in BGL BNP Paribas Partnership
Learn moreThe first Luxembourgish language model using the state-of-the-art BERT technology was recently released. It was developed through a partnership between BGL BNP Paribas and the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT). Thus, Luxembourg now has its own language model, LuxemBERT, which is open source and publicly available online.