The University of Luxembourg (UL), founded in 2003, is multilingual, international and strongly focused on research. Its students and staff have chosen a modern institution with a personal atmosphere, close to the European institutions, international companies and the financial place Luxembourg. The 5200 students may choose between Bachelor and Master degrees to be obtained from one of the three faculties: the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance and the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.

At present, there are 23 Bachelor degrees, 47 Master degrees and four doctoral schools on offer. Research focuses on a choice of priority areas. The University is a public institution that wants to serve Luxembourg as a platform of reflection, and develop into one of the motors of economic diversification. In the current four year plan (2022 – 2025), the UL focuses on the key areas of digital transformation, medicine and health, as well as sustainable and societal development.

International research teams and about 1000 PhD students work within the faculties and interdisciplinary centres of the University. Among top 250 universities worldwide, #4 worldwide for its “international outlook”, #25 in the Young University in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023, the University of Luxembourg is an international and multilingual university:

• multilingual study programmes, using French, English, German
• international students and staff from 130 nationalities
• mandatory semester abroad
• multiple international agreements
• member of the “University of the Greater Region” (UniGR)
• coordinator of EURAXESS Luxembourg.

OLHE is carried out at the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Department of Education and Social Work (DESW). The faculty has 479 employees and 15 laboratories and is active in six areas: Education and Social Work, Migration, Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Geography and Spatial Planning. In addition to the disciplinary approach, a very ambitious interdisciplinary research culture has developed.

The DESW consists of four interdisciplinary institutes with approximately 130 people: (1) Institute Lifelong Learning & Guidance, (2) Institute for Musicology and Arts, (3) Institute for Social Research and Interventions, and (4) Institute for Teaching & Learning. Generally, the focus of the department lies on researching education in socially, linguistically and culturally diverse societies.

The project is realised within the Institute for Teaching & Learning at the DESW of the UL. Its research works towards gaining understandings of contexts and processes of learning and teaching, with a goal of enhancing of the quality of education. Its members conduct innovate research in collaboration with teachers and develop evidence-based theories of effective teaching and learning approaches. Many of the institute’s studies design, evaluate, and disseminate tools for improving learning and teaching.

KEY STAFF

Prof. Dr. Janne Fengler holds the professorship of “Educational Sciences (Teacher Training)” at UL. Her research focus is on experiential education. She is consultant in matters of higher education development, system and program accreditation (Bachelor, Master, PhD) for quality assurance agencies such as AHPGS, AQUAS, SES (Germany, Libanon, Indonesia); editorial board member of the OEE-journal “e&l” (experience & learn) as well as chief editor of the journal “Weiterbildung” (continuing education); co-editor in the experiential education section of the Encyclopaedia of Educational Sciences (publisher Beltz); board member of the German „Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Erlebnispädagogik e.V. ("Society for the Promotion of Experiential Education").

Dr. Josefine Wagner is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Teaching and Learning and affiliated with Prof. Fengler`s professorship of Teacher Training. She is an educational ethnographer who works on matters of inclusion and social justice within primary and secondary education from a strong cross-cultural perspective. Her doctoral work, in which she set school cultures side-by-side in their approaches to educating diverse children in Poland, Germany and Austria was funded by the European Doctorate in Teacher Education and earned her the Presidential Fellowship Award by the Council on Anthropology and Education. Her postdoctoral work focuses on relationships in education. Dr. Wagner is a former high school teacher, a former fellow with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and has published her work in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Frontiers in Education and DeGruyter.