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Étude sur l’influence du COVID-19 sur les enfants et les adolescents

Les écoles vont bientôt rouvrir au Luxembourg ; quelques étudiants ont déjà repris. Pourtant, de nombreuses questions se posent. Un argument central en faveur de la réouverture des écoles est la supposition que l’enseignement à domicile peut accroître les inégalités éducatives et que les enfants et les adolescents ne peuvent pas faire face à l’isolement social…

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How resilient is Luxembourg’s food system?

Moments of crisis like the current one sparked by Covid-19, engage social, economic, cultural and political institutions of a society and stress-test their resilience. In such times of upheaval, individual and collective food supplies become primary concerns.

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University Receives Funding to Research COVID-19

The University of Luxembourg is an important pillar in the research effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. It is one of the participating partners in the research activities coordinated by Research Luxembourg, working on multiple interdisciplinary projects.

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André Losch Fondation soutient la recherche sur COVID-19

André Losch Fondation vient d’annoncer son engagement dans la lutte contre la pandémie: elle apporte son soutien à Research Luxembourg par un don généreux de 1,4 millions d’euros. La Fondation aide ainsi à financer trois études sur COVID-19 actuellement en cours au Luxembourg : l’étude CON-VINCE qui vise à mieux comprendre la propagation de la…

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A survey to understand the effects of social distancing measures

In less than a month, COVID-19 has profoundly changed our daily habits. Between “home-office”, “home-schooling” and only leaving our homes for basic necessities, our social interactions have been drastically reduced. Stress factors such as the loss of income, gloomy news and daily uncertainties must be added to this social isolation. If the need for social…

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Progress for Alzheimer and Parkinson‘s treatments

Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with scientists from Australia, China and Switzerland have recently studied amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s by using a particle accelerator. The results have been published in the Biophysical Journal in April 2020.

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La recherche doctorale en droit et en physique stimulée par PRIDE

Le Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) a octroyé deux bourses PRIDE à l’Université du Luxembourg. Ces bourses vont financer la recherche scientifique de 27 doctorants et représentent une subvention totale de 6 millions d’euros sur 6 ans.

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History in the Making: #covidmemory

The COVID-19 pandemic is an event whose historic dimension is immediately obvious to us. Comparisons with the Spanish flu at the end of the First World War and the very Western view that it is the greatest crisis since the Second World War are on everyone’s lips. The state of emergency declared in Luxembourg on…

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Nouveaux Bachelors en ingénierie, médecine, physique et mathématiques

L’Université du Luxembourg offrira quatre nouveaux programmes de Bachelor, en ingénierie, médecine, physique et mathématiques, à partir de septembre 2020.

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Engineering meets Quantum Mechanics

In an interdisciplinary collaboration between computational engineers and physicists from the University of Luxembourg, published in Nature Communications, a method combining quantum and continuum mechanics has been developed and it was shown to lead to a novel discovery of emergent long-range adhesive interactions for atomically-thin layers on top of surfaces.