Following the 2019 PRIDE call, the FNR has retained Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance DTU projects ‘DILLAN’ and ‘ACROSS’ for funding.
PRIDE is the FNR’s main programme for funding doctoral research in Luxembourg. It supports the development of critical mass in key research areas by attracting excellent PhD candidates to Luxembourg and offering high quality research training. Under this programme, PhD grants are awarded to researchers cooperating on a coherent research and training programme.
Digitalisation, Law and Innovation – DILLAN
The project DILLAN aims to develop pathways to adapt Europe’s multi-level legal systems to the digital evolution, based on an interdisciplinary cooperation between lawyers and computer scientists.
The research focuses on enhancing digitalised problem-solving and decision-making for various areas of regulation and law, while protecting democratic decision-making, transparency and individual rights. Researchers will study possibilities of several key enabling technologies on values, principles and rights, and accountability; and develop responses for the legal system.
DILLAN consists of 15 doctoral research projects across Law and Computer Sciences. The projects focus on six clusters, under the coordination of Professors Herwig Hofmann, Katerina Pantazatou and Mark Cole: constitutional and regulatory fields, taxation, currencies and Fin-Tech, crime and criminal law, dispute settlement and machine learning.
“How to adapt our decision-making structures in society to the possibilities and challenges of the digital transformations is a topic of the highest priority to the changing societies. DILLAN provides the legal research of Luxembourg with the unique opportunity to shape a European and international standard of how to adapt legal orders to the challenges of digitalisation,” says Herwig Hofmann, Head of the Department of Law and Coordinator of the DILLAN project.
The University of Luxembourg is uniquely positioned to undertake this interdisciplinary research. Two of the University’s six research priorities are European & International Law as well as Computer Science & ICT Security. The combination of these research priorities will ensure enhanced digital literacy among law PhD’s and knowledge of legal context among computer science PhDs.
Analysis of CROSS-border human mobility – ACROSS
ACROSS, or “Analysis of CROSS-border human mobility” is coordinated by Frédéric Docquier from the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and brings together researchers at STATEC along with researchers in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Luxembourg in order to develop tools to monitor, analyse and improve the understanding of the causes and consequences of cross-border movements– a prerequisite for relevant advice to policy-makers – and to train doctoral candidates to address these challenges as future researchers and experts in and outside academia.
These three partner institutions aim to create a team of excellence on cross-border mobility, a team where migration and labour market scholars can interact together with data providers, and where new generations of PhD students can benefit from synergies between institutions. To achieve its goals, the consortium provides a unique core training programme comprising general PhD courses, specific courses on cross-border mobility and the economics of migration, a series of doctoral lectures given by international renowned scholars, offsite retreats, and job market sessions.
The coordination within Department of Economics and Management will be done by Prof. Michel Beine, Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg. Of the twelve PhD studentships awarded to this project, 6 will be supervised by professors within the Department of Economics and Management.