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The University of Luxembourg is proud to host the 30th Symposium on Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, from 17 to 19 May, 2012 at Neumünster Abbey. This marks the first time Luxembourg has hosted the event and the timing couldn’t be better, as on Friday 11 May, the council adopted the Government Bill on the Establishment of Psychotherapists, which are not currently recognized in the Grand Duchy.
On Tuesday 15 May, 31 young inventors have been awarded for their creative and innovative ideas at the prize-giving of the 2012 GENIAL competition, organised at the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain. Placed under the theme "Lief deng Iddi – Verbesser deng Welt !", the 2012 edition of this innovative ideas competition gathered 308 young people who submitted their new and creative and GENIAL ideas!
The University of Luxembourg participates in the "Open Access" initiative
15-05-2012
Planned for 2013: finding results of research via a simple Google search!
Through the signature of a collaboration agreement on 10 May 2012 with the University of Liège, the University of Luxembourg has announced its intent to actively participate in the Open Access initiative, a worldwide movement aiming to make scholarly publications freely and openly available to anyone via the Internet. As defined in the Budapest (2002), Bethesda (2003) and Berlin (2003) declarations, Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without any restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements.
Research finds that Luxembourgish-speaking school children learn German and French differently
15-05-2012
University of Luxembourg research exploring language learning revealed that acquiring an unfamiliar second language requires the ability to analyse speech sounds in words, which has implications for curriculum in preschool.
After 14 years as head of Luxinnovation, the National Agency for Innovation and Research in Luxembourg, Mr Marco Walentiny handed over to Mr Raymond Schadeck during the meeting of the Management Board on 14 May 2012. The Board warmly thanked Mr Walentiny, who remains a member of the Board as Vice-Chairman, for his commitment and has appointed Raymond Schadeck as Chairman of Luxinnovation.
The University of Luxembourg’s Laboratory of Photovoltaics is part of a consortium of 14 partners who have received 10 million euro from the European Union to develop technologies for more efficient and cheaper solar cells. Called Scalenano, the European Commission-funded trans-national collaborative research project will run until 2015.
For the second time in a row, EuroCloud Luxembourg is proud to uncover the winners of its Awards competition in the following categories: Best Start Up, Best Cloud Service Product, Best Case Study Example of Cloud Services for the Private Sector and Best Case Study Example of Cloud Services for Public Sector. The awards ceremony took place on 10 May 2012, at the heart of the Abbaye de Neumünster, during the “Golden-i 2012” event, organised by ITnation. More than 500 people from the ICT industry in Luxembourg attended the event.
On 24 April 2012, during a day focusing on "Employment and training in the Greater Region", CRP Henri Tudor presented a collaborative tool for training organisations and business groups or professional associations which aims to help align the training offer to labor market needs. To meet this objective, the project Abilitic-2-Perform offers a participatory, structured and integrated tool that will enhance exchanges between players in the field and training and employability of learners.
Young Graduate Trainee Programme at the European Space Agency for Luxembourg young graduates
04-05-2012
To boost skills in the space sector, the Ministry for Higher Education and Research has concluded an agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to enable young Luxembourgish graduates to obtain a first work experience in the space field. The deadline for submitting applications to the Young Graduate Trainee programme is 1 June 2012 at 6:00 p.m.
Space Day 2012
04-05-2012
Public and private actors draw positive conclusions of space activities since Luxembourg's adhesion to the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2005
The "Space Day" was held on 3 May 2012 in the presence of the Minister of Higher Education and Research, François Biltgen, and members of the parliamentary committee. It provided an opportunity for companies and research centers active in the field of space technologies to highlight projects that have been implemented since Luxembourg's adhesion to the ESA in 2005. This event emphasised the partnership between public and private actors, whether as part of the Luxembourg Aeronautic and Space Industry ("Groupement luxembourgeois de l’aéronautique et de l’espace" - GLAE) or the Space Cluster managed by Luxinnovation.
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