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Congratulations to the 2023 Pierre Werner Scholarship winners!

  • Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF)
    06 July 2023

We are pleased to announce that 4 Doctoral researchers from both the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance and from the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences will receive the 2023 Pierre Werner Scholarship.

This scholarship is made available by the Fondation Pierre Werner, under the aegis of the Fondation de Luxembourg.

In July, the Fondation Pierre Werner management committee came together to select the scholarship laureates. Their final decision was based on the outcome results of the pre-selection committee from the University of Luxembourg, composed of Prof. Benny Mantin, Prof. Aikaterini Pantazatou, Prof. Gautam Tripathi and Prof. Josip Glaurdic.

The successful candidates for the 2023 scholarships are:

Laura Aade (Belgian), from the Doctoral School of Law (DSL) with the subject “The Interplay Between the Private Governance of Social Media Platforms and the Restrictions Imposed by European Consumer Protection” 

Laura Gil Besada (Spanish), from the Institute of Political Sciences (ISP) with the subject “The influence of parliamentary diplomacy in norm diffusion and human rights policy: The Parliament of Spain, the European Parliament, and the Mercosur Parliament and its members”

Henriette Heimbach (German), from the Institute of Political Sciences (ISP) with the subject “A new form of bi-parliamentary cooperation: The establishment of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly”

Anna Machura-Urbaniak (Polish), from the Doctoral School of Law (DSL) with the subject “Investment fraud in the light of behavioral science – integration of psychological aspects into financial regulation”

Learn more about the Fondation Pierre Werner.