The University of Luxembourg aims to encourage student mobility with partner universities outside of Europe and an increasing number of students seize the opportunities offered to them.
In honour of all the students selected this year to spend a study abroad period outside Europe in the framework of the University’s different international programmes, an International Award Ceremony was held recently on Campus Limpertsberg, in the presence of the University of Luxembourg’s Vice-President for Organisation and International Relations, Franck Leprévost, the Chargée d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg, Alison Shorter-Lawrence, and Mr. Akira Takeda, Counselor at the Embassy of Japan in Luxembourg.
Over 30 Bachelor and Master students have been selected by the University of Luxembourg to spend a study abroad period in the United States, Canada, Uruguay, China, Japan, India and Turkey during the academic year 2015-2016 in the framework of the Global exchange programme, a student exchange programme with partner institutions all over the world.
Two of those students were also awarded a scholarship to help them cover the expenses of their stay in the United States, jointly sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg and the companies Ernst & Young, Goodyear Dunlop and Michelman International. This year’s winners of this U.S. Embassy – U.S. Enterprise Scholarship are Jim Barthel, a Bachelor student in mathematics and Céline Couronne, a Bachelor student in psychology. Both of them will study for one semester at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Moreover, a very special group of students was honoured as well, namely the winners of the Top student prize, which is awarded every year to nine of the University’s best students and consists in a three-week summer school in Asian studies at Sophia University in the heart of Tokyo. This summer session offers the students the opportunity to learn Japanese but also to experience many aspects of Japanese culture and society and learn about Japanese history, politics economy and religion. The selected students are Bachelor and Master students from the University’s three faculties.
