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New article: Informalität im regionalen Wachstumsprozess

This paper deals with the management of settlement growth in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from the perspective of informality. Luxembourg is subject to high demographic and economic growth pressures across all parts of the country (capital, old-industrialized South, rural North), which strongly challenges the current planning system. At the same time, there is no…

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Batty Weber Abreisskalender

Appel fir d’Tagung: D’Geschicht vu Lëtzebuerg duerch d’Lëns vum Batty Weber sengem Abreisskalender (1913-1940)

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Before Maastricht: Identity and Place in European Writing before the EU

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PhD Defense – Eolia Verstichel Boulanger

Subject: LettresSupervisor: Hélène BARTHELMEBS-RAGUINThesis title: Le processus scriptural nothombien : une nouvelle expérience esthétique. Faire entendre ce qui appartient au silence.

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PhD Defense – Morteza Ansarinia

Subject: PsychologieSupervisor: Pedro CARDOSO LEITEThesis title: Towards a computational model of general cognitive control using artificial intelligence, experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience

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PhD Defense – Thibault Fouillet

Subject: HistoireSupervisor: Sonja KMECThesis title: La Grande Stratégie des petites puissances. Etude des mécanismes de fondation d’une grande stratégie face à un dilemme de sécurité appliqués au Luxembourg, à la Lituanie et à Singapour (1965-2025)

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PhD Defense – Svenja Heuser

Doctoral candidate: HEUSER SvenjaSubject: Sciences SocialesSupervisor: Patrick SUNNENThesis title: Reading aloud practices: Providing joint accessibility to text within an unfamiliar interface-mediated game activity

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PhD defense – Elisabeth CLEES

PhD Defense of Elisabeth CLEESSubject: PsychologieSupervisor: Georges STEFFGENThesis title: Subjektives Wohlbefinden in Einrichtungen der stationären luxemburgischen Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Eine qualitative Studie mit betroffenen Jugendlichen

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Svend Pedersen Lecture Award 2020 for Prof. Christina Siry!

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Christina Siry, Head of the Institute for Teaching and Learning in the Department of Education and Social Work, has been awarded the Svend Pedersen Lecture Award 2020* from the Stockholm College of Teachers. Since 2005, this award has gone to an outstanding researcher in the didactics of science subjects or…

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Science of Science: Why does the U.S. have the leading research universities? Incentives, resources, and virtuous circles

Around 1875, the US had none of the world’s leading research universities; today, it accounts for the majority of the top-ranked. Many observers cite events surrounding World War II as the source of this reversal. We present evidence that US research universities had surpassed most countries’ decades before World War II. An explanation of their dominance…