It is our great pleasure to present the 2023 edition of our Annual Report! We set ourselves the goal of doing research for a better tomorrow and we couldn’t have done it without our team of researchers and support staff. It was a record-breaking year for SnT!
This year, we celebrate 15 years of excellence in research. From launching the National Centre of Excellence in Financial Technologies (NCER-FT), to founding the Competence Hub in Research in Cybersecurity and Cyber Defence (CyberHub), and welcoming ten new partners – in 2023, we achieved outstanding new successes for a better tomorrow.
In our Annual Report 2023 we’re sharing many of our exciting success stories. Learn how our researchers create a National Centre for Excellence in FinTech, how we approach cybersecurity in our CyberHub and how we developed Luxembourg’s national testbed for a quantum communication infrastructure. SnT also fosters the next generation of brilliant minds, and our report features many interviews with up and coming scientists.
Here are some of our highlight stories:
· The University of Luxembourg inaugurated the National Centre of Excellence in Financial Technologies (NCER-FT) on 29 March 2023. The NCER-FinTech is an interdisciplinary initiative that focuses on the financial industry’s technological challenges and opportunities.
· The Luxembourg Directorate of Defence announced on 15 November 2023 the launch of a Competence Hub in Research in Cybersecurity and Cyber Defence (CyberHub), in partnership with the University of Luxembourg. The CyberHub is intended to strengthen and increase Luxembourg’s ability to meet national and international challenges, such as increasingly serious and elaborate cyber threats.
· SnT launched the Luxembourg Quantum Communication Infrastructure (LUQCIA) project, funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, with the collaboration of the Department of Media, Connectivity and Digital Policy. (…) In the short to mid-term, this project – in the framework of our project LUX4QCI, which aims to build an EU-wide infrastructure, launched in February 2023 – will create a local talent pool in quantum communications and post-quantum cybersecurity, which will in turn attract more FinTech and Space companies to the country.
We hope you enjoy our highlights of 2023 and look forward to seeing what research for a better tomorrow we can create together in 2024!