The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) has awarded two PRIDE Grants to LISER. Through Doctoral Training Units (DTUs), namely “Experiments, Ethics and Economics (3e)” and “Analysis of CROSS-border human mobility (ACROSS)”, the combined grants will support the research work of 18 PhD candidates over six years.

The PRIDE programme is the FNR’s main programme for funding doctoral research in Luxembourg. The programme aims to support the development of critical mass in key research areas, by attracting excellent PhD candidates to Luxembourg and offering them high quality research training.

Further details on the LISER DTUs:

DTU title:
Analysis of CROSS-border human mobility (ACROSS)

Coordinator:
Frederic Docquier (LISER)

DTU description:
With the free movement of people within the EU, decreasing transportation and communication costs, global inequality and political instability around the world, more and more individuals have been crossing borders in recent decades, either as permanent or temporary migrants, as daily transnational commuters, or as refugees. These cross-border movements generate important challenges for EU countries in general, and for Luxembourg in particular. In Luxembourg, foreigners account for about 50% of the total population and daily commuters nearly double the size of the national labor force.

In this context, ACROSS aims to develop tools to monitor, analyze and improve the understanding of the causes and consequences of these flows – a prerequisite for relevant advice to policy-makers. It gathers economists and geographers from LISER, from the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg, and from the Research Division of STATEC (the National Institute of statistics and economic studies).
The three partner institutions aim to create a team of excellence on cross-border mobility, a team where migration and labor market scholars can interact together with data providers, and where new generations of PhD students can benefit from synergies between institutions.

Within the consortium, co-promotion will be systematically encouraged to reinforce the links between institutions as well as to train 4 younger researchers in PhD supervision. ACROSS builds on the doctoral education support of the Graduate Studies Program (GraSp) at LISER and of the Doctoral Schools of Economics and Finance (DSEF).

To learn more about ACROSS visit the Crossing Borders blog

PHD grants: 10

DTU title:
Experiments, Ethics and Economics (3e)

Coordinator:
Marc Suhrcke (LISER)