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The Ministry of Research and Higher Education is responsible for organising, coordinating and overseeing the Luxembourg higher education landscape. Within this context, the MESR acts as the supervising ministry of the University of Luxembourg and is in charge of the accreditation of the programmes leading to a higher technician certificate (brevet de technicien supérieur) as well as of foreign higher education institutions established on the territory of the Grand Duchy and of their study programmes.
The range of competence of the ministry is fixed by the Government regulation.
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Visit of H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Stéphanie Obertin to Osaka
From 15 to 17 July 2025, H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Digitalisation and Minister for Research and Higher Education, will visit Osaka as part of Expo 2025.
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Mistral AI and Luxembourg enter into a strategic partnership
On 17 June 2025, the Government of Luxembourg, represented by the Prime Minister, the Minister for the Economy, SMEs, Energy and Tourism, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Digitalization and Minister for Higher Education and Research, ...
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Consolidation of the collaboration between the University of Luxembourg and ILNAS
The University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Standardisation, Accreditation, Safety and Quality of Products and Services − known as ILNAS − are set to pursue their collaboration in the fields of research and standardization.
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Second part of the working visit by Xavier Bettel and Stéphanie Obertin to the Republic of Korea
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Xavier Bettel, and the Minister for Digitalisation, Research and Higher Education, Stéphanie Obertin, have concluded their working visit to the Republic of Korea.
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First part of the working visit by Xavier Bettel and Stéphanie Obertin to the Republic of Korea
Xavier Bettel, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Digitalisation, Minister for Research and Higher Education, are currently on a working visit to the Republic of Korea.
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Stéphanie Obertin took part in the OECD Science and Technology Policy Ministerial meeting
Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Research and Higher Education, took part in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ministerial meeting on science and technology policy, which was held at the OECD headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 April 2024.
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