Organisation: Department of Social Sciences
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Research Projects Pages
Building Effective European Banking Supervision (BEEBS)
Learn moreSince the start of January 2011 — for the first time in world history — a system of supranational banking supervision has been established with distinct roles for the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) in relation to National Competent Authorities (NCAs).
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Learn moreTraditionally centered on EU integration and policy making, the Institute of Political Science has expanded in recent years both in numbers and research focus. With more than €6 million in grants won since 2017 for projects ranging from housing policy to human rights, IPS researchers produce scholarly outputs of exceptional range, quality, and policy relevance.
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Institute of Political Science
Learn moreThe Institute provides a methodologically pluralist and distinctively multilingual environment in which to pursue governance and politics research.
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Join us
Learn moreSince September 2013, SEMILUX has been the inter institutional interdisciplinary seminar on social inequality in Luxembourg. The University, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for in-person or remote monthly sessions on innovative and diverse approaches to inequality.
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Learn moreMeasuring inequalities, modelling dynamics, creating new methods, revolutionizing concepts, are our way to analyze societal transformations with deep investments in health science, education change, longitudinal approach of ageing and even artificial-intelligence based research processes, to identify socioeconomic problems and their potential solutions through comparison, experiments and big data.
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Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality
Learn moreIn a world of escalating inequalities (income, wealth, health, gender, age, etc.) we decipher facts and find solutions for better, sustainable societies.
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Learn moreWe seek to attract researchers, experts and specialists with a passion for excellent and state-of-the-art research (qualitative or quantitative) with a background in sociology, psychology, or educational sciences to help us develop knowledge about young people and their contexts of growing up in Luxembourg and beyond. Make sure to monitor this page to apply for…
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Research
Learn moreWe examine conditions and opportunity structures of growing up against the backdrop of social change and inequalities. A range of theoretical perspectives and multi-methodological designs serve to research links between policies, education and welfare systems, and social and personal resources for citizenship, identity, health, migration, participation, school-to-work transitions, and well-being.
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Centre for Childhood and Youth Research (CCY)
Learn moreInterdisciplinary & multi-method research centre on young people from childhood via adolescence into early adulthood, offering doctoral training.
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Outreach
Learn moreOnce childhood days are over, young people’s lives tick up in pace, almost as if in fast-forward mode. The older they get, the more own responsibilities they must take on: Make new friends, leave familiar environments behind, and make first steps on the way to personal independence. For many, this path is littered with obstacles.…