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
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsOur research projects
The Department’s research projects range from large multinational consortia (e.g. Horizon Europe) over bi-national projects to domestically funded ventures. They receive funding from the European Commission, international networks, national funding agencies, foundations, ministries, municipalities, or civil society organisations. Postdoctoral and Doctoral Training is an inherent part of most endeavours, as is the collaborative dialogue with societal stakeholders.
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Research focus & facilities
The following research areas are addressed across teams and bring together complementary perspectives, topical expertise and methodological skills:
-Migration and Borders
-Spatial Development and Governance
-Urban Planning and Design
-Community Well-Being and Spatial Cohesion
Our department offers high end facilities: the GIS Lab and the Architecture Studio.
The GIS Lab offers 20 workstations for students, equipped with the latest release of the Geographic Information System ESRI ArcPro, Opensource R studio and other relevant Software. The room is also equipped with an interactive multi-media screen, professional video conference devices for hybrid teaching (screens,
moving cameras, portable and ceiling microphones), white boards as well as an adaptable space to support discussions and collaborative working. There is an experimental lab adjacent to the GIS Lab, with 2 high spec desktop machines, and a Virtual Reality (VR) system, used for both teaching and for independent research by masters’ students. The lab also offers an Augmented Reality (AR) sand table for public engagement activities as well as an A3 colour printer and map scanner available for use by students and researchers.
Architecture studio
The Master in Architecture disposes of a dedicated studio space equipped with individual desks, group presentation spaces and collaborative working areas. It offers access to all necessary equipment for printing and model-making which includes large-format plotter, laser cutter, large-format scanners, colour laser printers as well as dedicated fully-equipped workstations.
Home of renowned international networks & collaborations
The Department of Geography and Spatial Planning hosts the National Contact Point for the EMN (European Migration Network), the FRANET National Focal Point for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and coordinates the UniGR-Center for Border Studies.
The European Migration Network is a network of migration and asylum experts who work together to meet the information needs of Union institutions and of Member State’s authorities. The network provides up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and asylum, to support policymaking in the European Union. It was established by Council Decision 2008/381/EC.
The Chair was established in 2019 through a multi-annual convention with the City of Esch. The Chair attempts to construct a conceptually sophisticated understanding of urban regeneration, based on formal and informal exchanges with the City administration and, in particular, local residents and stakeholders using a vacant shop in Esch.
Chairholder
The chair is responsible for coordinating innovative research on policy coherence for sustainable development (PCSD). The Chair works with coordinators of other branches in order to contribute to the program’s impacts on civil society, governmental decision-making, and capacity-building and training. It will also help to reinforce science-policy coherence by focusing on how information is collected and utilized by academics and decision-makers. The Chair was established in August 2018 through an inter-institutional agreement between the Instituto de Ecología, AC (INECOL), Xalapa, Mexico and the University of Luxembourg (DGEO).
FRANET is the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ multidisciplinary research network. It is composed of contractors in each EU Member State, the UK and in countries which have Observer status. Upon request, the contractors provide reports and relevant data on fundamental rights issues to the Agency (FRA) to facilitate the Agency’s comparative analyses. The FRANET National Focal Point in Luxembourg fosters networking activities and provides contracted reports and data to FRA.
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies is a thematic cross-border network of border scholars from the six member universities of the University of the Greater Region (University of Luxembourg, Technische Universität Kaiserlautern, University of Liège, University of Lorraine, Saarland University, Trier University). Combining the projects of the participating universities, the network supports border research, and ensures greater international visibility. The network has been launched in December 2014 on the initiative of researchers form the Greater Region. As a founding member, the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning is proud to host the coordination unit of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies.
