Employees in Luxembourg are skilled, multilingual and multicultural. The Government massively invested in schools, vocational training and research during the past years.

Employees in Luxembourg are skilled, multilingual and multicultural. The Government massively invested in schools, vocational training and research during the past years.

At the University of Luxembourg, the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication as well as the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance offer special ICT-related Bachelor and Master Degrees, for example an academic Bachelor in Science and Engineering in the field of Telecommunications, a Bachelor and Master in Computer Science, or more recently, a Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The lingual and cultural diversity is a result of, one the one hand, the country’s central geographical position and, on the other hand, of the fact that 40% of Luxembourg residents are expatriate foreign nationals from all over Europe and around the world.

The exceptional skills of the workforce are reflected in the high productivity per person employed; Luxembourg clearly outranks its EU partners by ranking 1st with 167 points (OECD, “Estimates of labour productivity levels”, Jan. 2010).

Thanks to the strong presence of the financial sector, legal and financial skills are very present and numerous internationally renowned consultancy and law firms offer their services in Luxembourg.

Luxembourghas the highest proportions of IT specialists among its active population (OECD Information Technology Outlook 2010).

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