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Research & Development
Luxembourg has a strong industrial R&D culture. Approximately 4,000 people work in R&D, of which almost 2,000 are researchers. The main research centers are those of the multinationals established in Luxembourg such as Goodyear, DuPont de Nemours, Husky, etc. The Grand-Duchy is well incorporated into an international cluster of universities. The recent establishment of the University of Luxembourg opens interesting prospects for R&D cooperation between the public and private sectors.
In Luxembourg, ICT figures among the top R&D priorities.
The Government actively supports innovation and research in the ICT sector. It recently integrated information security and high performance telecommunication networks in the Core Programme of the National Research Fund.
In the course of the past few years, Luxembourg has invested huge amounts in schools, vocational training and research and thus followed a policy of radical implementation of the goals identified in the EU’s Lisbon Strategy. Luxembourg has already increased public expenditure on R&D to 0.26% in relation to GDP in 2005 with an ultimate goal of 1%. The Luxembourg University (Université de Luxembourg), created in 2003, the Luxembourg School of Finance and many other training and research institutes, such as Henri Tudor, Luxinnovation or the Education and Technology Centre (Centre de Technologie & de l’Education, www.cte.lu) do as much to contribute to the development of human resources as the initiative “lifelong learning“. The workforce consists largely of science and technology human resources. In 2005, 21% of total employment was made up of science workers and technology workers accounted for 17%. HRST occupations grew at an annual average rate of 4.8% from 1996 to 2005, well above the EU19 average of 2.8% .
In addition, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication as well as the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg offer special ICT-related Bachelor and Master Degrees, for example an academic Bachelor in Science and Engineering in the field of Telecommunications, a Bachelor in Computer Science, or more recently, a Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The ISC Department (IT, Systems and Collaboration) at the Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann (CRPGL) offers in addition to its research, service and technological consultancy activities also customized training courses adapted to company specific requirements or on a specific technology or application developed within the scope of a project .
The training schemes on offer at the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor are implemented by its own training center SITec®, a department specialised in continuing education for engineers and executives, which organises both training sessions and conferences .
It provides a special training catalogue with a wide range of training and courses in different areas, also within the ICT sector.
