Research

Focus areas

The University of Luxembourg has chosen its model to be that of a university led by research. In support of these few words, the actual strategy adopted by the university is to provide solid support for a number of deliberately restricted areas of focus for scientific research, which are considered to be of a high priority. This support is pledged for research as well as for Masters and Doctorate courses registered in these priority focus areas.

The University of Luxembourg considers the following five focus areas as high priority:

• International Finance ;
• Security, Reliability and Trust in Information Technology;
• Systems Biomedicine ;
• European and business law ;
• Learning and Development in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts

Other main research directions

• Interface-induced properties of condensed matter;
• Luxembourg studies;
• Environmental resources, technologies and changes;
• Economy and entrepreneurship;
• Social and individual development;
• Mathematics;
• European Governance

In order for this strategic direction to take shape, a two-phase research structuring process was required:

In an initial phase, the University of Luxembourg implemented a strict policy for granting authorization for the management of research to its academic staff, thus enabling them to establish who, at the University of Luxembourg, has the capacity to supervise a research project or a doctoral thesis.

In a second phase, the faculties proceeded to set up and organise research units (RU). A RU is made up of one or more laboratories, and its objective is to use and share a common team with a high level of expertise, research and scientific activity so as to foster and encourage administration and investment synergies. Doctorate students are supervised by the academic staff of the RU having the authorization for the management of research. The RUs develop work around the research projects.