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Maxim Lebedev, aged 18, represented Luxembourg at Castic 2026 in China, where his project on urban traffic analysis earned him the Unisoc Innovation Award. (Photo: FJSL)

Luxembourg’s Maxim Lebedev wins award at Castic

Maxim Lebedev, an 18-year-old from Luxembourg, won the Unisoc Innovation Award at Castic 2026, held in Xi’an, China. Selected by the Luxembourg Young Scientists Foundation, he impressed the international jury with a project focusing on simulating traffic congestion in and around the city of Luxembourg.

Rebeca Suay • 30.07.2026

Financial support for higher education has been overhauled. Students and their parents would be well advised to take note of this before 1 August. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Student financial aid: what changes from 1 August

Thierry Labro • 15.07.2026

The University of Luxembourg currently offers law students a bachelor’s degree before directing them almost exclusively towards a master’s degree focusing on European law and specialisations related to the financial sector. Photo: Uni/Faculté de droit, d’économie et de finance

Students call for a master’s degree in Luxembourg law at the Uni

Ioanna Schimizzi • 28.05.2026

Francine Closener used a parliamentary question to challenge state subsidies for fee-charging private schools outside the Luxembourg curriculum. Photo: Paperjam

Meisch backs Luxembourgish rule but keeps private-school subsidies

Mike Gordon • 22.05.2026

(l-r) Gilles Roth, Luxembourg’s finance minister, and Manuel Ammann, rector of the University of St Gallen, signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint MBA programme during Roth’s visit to St Gallen on 19 May 2026. Photo: Corinne Riedener/ University of St Gallen

Luxembourg and Swiss St Gallen university plan finance MBA

Kangkan Halder • 20.05.2026

(l-r) James Lawless, Ireland’s Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, submitted Ireland’s application to join the Benelux-backed treaty on automatic recognition of higher education degrees to Liesje Schreinemacher, Deputy Secretary-General of the Benelux Union, in Brussels. Photo: Benelux

Ireland joins queue for Benelux degree pact

Kangkan Halder • 11.05.2026

In an increasingly fragmented education system, social divides now run along the lines of the school curriculum. Photo: Shutterstock

In private schools, family incomes are twice as high

Ioanna Schimizzi • 06.05.2026

As a chemistry lecturer, Katharina Fromm has established herself as an academic figure committed to developing interdisciplinary projects and strengthening links between universities and businesses. Photo: University of Fribourg

Katharina Fromm joins the University’s governing body

Thierry Labro • 04.05.2026

Grégoire Genest, co-founder of Albert School, is developing a hybrid teaching model that combines business, data and technology. Photos: courtesy of Grégoire Genest, Shutterstock. Design: Paperjam

Grégoire Genest aims to create a “European Stanford”

Louise Braibant • 24.04.2026

Claude Meisch, minister of Education, Children and Youth, said work to identify potential sites for Luxembourg’s new secondary school sectoral plan has begun, with environmental assessments to follow and the plan due to enter into force in 2028. Library photo: Matic Zorman

Luxembourg chalks up 11 new schools, €1.9bn in acceleration plan

Kangkan Halder • 14.04.2026

Tillmann Schulze: “Most of the challenges in public urban spaces are below criminality.” (Photo: Mike Gordon/Paperjam)

Broader urban safety approach presented to Luxembourg communes

Mike Gordon • 17.03.2026

Only 13.3% of young people aged between 12 and 29 say they meet their friends at least 20 days a month. Photo: Shutterstock

80% of young people spend more than two hours a day on social networks

Emilio Naud • 09.03.2026

By bringing together today’s decision makers and tomorrow’s leaders, the symposium creates a space for open, critical and forward-looking exchange. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Cross-generational dialogue in a disrupted age

Jonathan Roggenkamp (St. Gallen Symposium) • 04.03.2026

“There is a need for executive education in finance here,” says Patrick Augustin, pointing to a gap in specialised finance training despite Luxembourg’s role as a major financial centre. (Photo: McGill University)

What McGill’s arrival means for Luxembourg’s financial talent strategy

Louise Braibant • 26.02.2026

Antoine Rech is the director of Essca Luxembourg, which is holding an open day on 28 February, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Chamber of Skilled Trades and Crafts. (Photo: Mike Zenari/archive)

Antoine Rech: “Training beyond finance”

Hugo Hirsch • 24.02.2026

“What is currently missing most from education are … intertemporal choices, saving and investing, and the broader economic context,” argued Carlo Klein, chairman of Investas asbl, in an interview with Paperjam. Librar photo: Patricia Pitsch

Retired teacher backs nationwide financial education for children

Kangkan Halder • 24.02.2026

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