Partners

BCEE  is the Luxembourgish state savings bank providing all the functions of a commercial bank , including retail banking  and private banking . Research interests include; access control polices and cloud computing, role-based access control policies, address maintainability problems with roles, agents, resources and permissions.

As a leading bank card processor in Luxembourg, CETREL offers comprehensive solutions for cashless payment transactions. CETREL ensures trouble-free payment processes for card issuers as well as card acceptance by retailers. The expertise that CETREL has been able to build up and consistently improve since its creation in 1985, have allowed the company in the last few years to win new clients, from in- and outside of Luxembourg. At the same time, CETREL offers more and more new and innovative finance-IT services for banks and secures all actors in the financial centre Luxembourg with clear advantages on the international competition. As of January 2009, 50% of CETREL is owned by SIX Group AG and the leading banks in the financial centre as well as the postal service. With about 180 employees, the company realized a turnover of more than 40 million euro in the financial year of 2009.

Creos Luxembourg S.A. is the owner and manager of electrical networks and natural gas pipelines; it is a member of the Enovos Group.The mission of Creos is the non-discriminatory operation of transmission and distribution networks and pipelines in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Creos is in charge of the planning, realisation, extension, maintenance, operation and repair of the low, medium and high voltage electrical networks as well as of the low, medium and high pressure natural gas lines owned as well as of those it has been appointed operator. At the moment the Creos people operate more than 9,000 km of electricity grids as well as 1,850 km of natural gas pipelines. The number of connections to the electrical network amounts to 247,000 and the connections to the natural gas grid is around 41,000. Thus more than 90 % of the domestic energy grids are managed by Creos. The average workforce of Creos: 700 people. Creos is also responsible for meter reading and data processing, as well as the billing of grid and pipeline access.The security of supply as well as the reliability of the energy grids are major concerns of the company. Creos makes particular efforts to place networks underground in villages and their surroundings when renewing lines, or when planning new infrastructure. The company makes every effort to minimise the impact of these works on the environment. As a consequence of that undertaking, 94 % of the low tension lines and 65 % of the medium tension lines are buried.

Luxembourg's national data protection agency ( Commission nationale pour la protection des données, CNPD ) was set up under the Law of 2 August 2002 to verify the legality of the processing of personal data and ensure the respect of personal freedoms and fundamental rights with regard to privacy. It issues recommendations, advises on draft legislation and regulatory measures, deals with complaints and requests to examine the legality of processing of data and approves sectorial codes of conduct. As a monitoring authority, it can investigate, adopt administrative sanctions or initiate court action. Its mission also extends to ensuring compliance with the provisions of the Law of 30 May 2005 regarding the specific rules for the protection of privacy in the sector of electronic communications, which includes new information, communication and internet technologies.

FEDIL is a Luxemburgish business federation representing interests of member companies in industry, construction and services. Its main purpose is defending the professional interests of its members. Fedil tries to strengthen the solidarity network between Luxembourgish employers and reorientate political and administrative decisions in the interest of free enterprise.

IEE is a global leader in automotive safety sensing systems for occupant detection and classification. The company also provides people and object sensing solutions that enhance building safety, security and management. IEE operates worldwide and employs about 1,400 people. As a partner, IEE supports a multi-sensor fusion laboratory providing an experimentally driven research program in 2D-3D sensor fusion, multi-view camera fusion, detection, classification, and recognition.

itrust Consulting . consults customers coming from public, financial, and private sector to protect their information against divulgation, manipulations and unavailability. In the context of location-based services (accessible with a mobile device that make use of the location of the device to supply functionalities), the research aims to provide a high quality level of assurance in the location information from GPS and Galileo, while protecting location data owners from intrusions into their privacy.

Luxinnovation  is the National Agency for Innovation and Research of Luxembourg.
Its mission is to educate, inform, encourage, advise and support companies as well as public and private research organisations and talents in order to stimulate their creativity, their Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) activities and the transfer of their RDI results. It thus contributes to increasing competitiveness and productivity, boosting the diversification and the creation of new activities and innovative companies, and enhancing the sustainable development of the economy. It intervenes at national, interregional and international level to strengthen collaboration and networking.

The Ministry of Economy  in Luxembourg actively promotes security and trust in ICT systems and services building on the country’s reputation of delivering trustworthy services. Research projects include; network security, malware and botnet detection, intrusion detection, digital forensics, network data collection and analysis.

P&T Luxembourg  is the incumbent national telecom operator with fixed, mobile and wifi networks. P&T Luxembourg has introduced an integrated mobile telecommunication solution for the development of automotive telematic services in Europe for PSA Peugeot Citroën.  This reflects on the research interests of the partnership; vehicular networks, development of applications and services for vehicular networks, human machine interaction, open platforms, testing, verification, and validation of software systems.

Founded as Société Européenne des Satellites (SES)  in 1985, SES is a world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of 49 geostationary satellites. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators and business and governmental organisations worldwide. The SES global satellite fleet is complemented by a network of teleports allowing customers to reach 99% of the world's population. SES stands for long-lasting business relationships, high-quality service and excellence in the broadcasting industry. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite bandwidth and service requirements. SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) holds participations in Ciel in Canada and QuetzSat in Mexico, as well as a strategic participation in satellite infrastructure start-up O3b Networks.

As part of Belgacom, Telindus Luxembourg  provides ICT  services and solutions to the corporate  and public sector . Telindus operates and deploys mobile and wifi networks in the country. The research program address; mobile and wifi networks, location and context aware services, security and reliability in heterogonous networks, mobile network offloading.

Red Dog Communications s.a.  is a web development agency providing complete web development solutions: from web design to search engine optimization, content management and website updates. Red Dog helps his customers, from large corporations to small and medium-sized firms, to implement trouble free and user-centric websites by easing up web accessibility and usability.

The City of Luxembourg , capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a “euregional” economic metropolis, at the centre of the Greater Region of SaarLorLux. A workplace for thousands of cross-border workers, the City welcomes them in ultra-modern business centres and districts with an extensive and accessible public transport network. It is also keeping its promises of dynamism: clean and safe, the streets welcome visitors and users looking for a good restaurant, a luxury store or a quality shop. Information for getting there, as a complement to the City Tourist Office, can be delivered by the Hotcity terminals, intelligent relays on phones and laptop computers. At night, the City of Luxembourg opens its heart and is wrapped in warm lights in the streets of the Old Town, Grund and the Centre for a charming escapade in a human-sized capital. Cultural life offers whatever you desire: concerts, festivals, exhibitions, cultural events etc. are on offer throughout the year, responding to the most demanding cultural desires. Coming to Luxembourg to visit, to work or to live also means giving yourself a moment of life, a comfortable break, rich with discoveries, sensations and emotions.