Luxembourg fully subscribes to the sustainable development goals of the United Nations and will contribute through its research activities to a sustainable development from an ecological, economic and societal perspective. In the ecological field, a focus will be on research in the context of a transition to sustainability and climate change.  

 

Luxembourg has the ambition to become a model country for the efficient use of a renewable energy mix through a smart energy management that includes energy-efficient smart buildings, which are connected to smart grids, also enabling a smart mobility. It will develop technologies to continuously monitor the effects of climate change on ecological systems and biodiversity and use this monitoring in order to model future scenarios allowing for the country’s best adaptation to a changing environment (e.g. in view of agricultural and forestry activities, but also in prevention of extreme events or water availability). 

Economically, Luxembourg will innovate through research on new sustainable economic instruments and models, especially in the areas of green finance and circular and sharing economy. 

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A socially sustainable development is particularly important for a very diverse and multilingual country as Luxembourg, and there- fore research on different aspects of social cohesion, like the social consequences of migration and labour market developments but also questions of cultural identities and nationhood will be included in this research area. 

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Finally, the upcoming digitalisation raises the question how all these new developments and disruptive technologies can be implemented in a responsible way. In this context, questions about regulations for a responsible and privacy-respecting use of data, as well as ethical questions around data use and disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence will be in the focus of Luxembourg’s research efforts. They will make a major contribution to the provision of the regulatory/legal framework needed for a smart knowledge-driven economy and society.