Minister for Education Claude Meisch promoting e-skills

The visit was part of the Ministry’s plan to promote jobs in the new technologies sector, since CeBIT is recognised as the world’s biggest show devoted to information and communication technologies.

The ICT sector is particularly promising in terms of innovation and employment in the Grand Duchy, but young people looking for careers guidance are often not familiar with the range of jobs it offers. That is why the Ministry is actively promoting these jobs, in cooperation with players in the private sector (ICTLuxembourg, LuxConnect, FEDIL) and Digital Lëtzebuerg.

The pupils and the Minister were welcomed at the stand of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), where they attended a demonstration of the first digital cloud devoted to education and discovered the platform for on-line learning and the various courses the Institute offers. The Potsdam-based Hasso Plattner Institute is a university centre of excellence specialising in IT systems engineering, and is a pioneer in Europe with its HPI School of Design Thinking (teaching based on trans-disciplinary problem-solving in small teams).

The pupils and the Minister were then free to visit many more of the stands at the show.

It is intended that more schools should take part in a visit to the CeBIT in 2018.

Many projects for formal and informal IT education in Luxembourg

The Ministry of Education, Children and Youth promotes a large number of projects for formal and informal education involving the new technologies: makerspaces (creative areas open to pupils); the Luxembourg Tech School, with an extra-curricular course specialising in gaming, fintech and big data; the Future Hub label for innovative secondary schools, etc. A new section specialising in information and communication will be available for pupils in secondary (“classic”) education starting in September 2017.

Luxembourg booth to attract talent to Luxembourg

In hall 11 the job fair «Job & Career» of the CeBIT was specifically designed for professionals of the digital industry looking for new challenges. Within this frame and on the initiative of LuxConnect, the Ministry of Economy and the Department for Media and Communication of the Ministry of State together with the Chamber of Commerce, ABBL, ACA, ALFI, the Fedil, ICTLuxembourg and the House of Training had put in place a national booth under the name of «Digital Lëtzebuerg» to allow companies as ADEM, CFL, Docler Holding, Encevo, KPMG, Paul Wurth, Post Group, Securitymadein.lu and Telindus to meet talents and experts looking for a job and to manage this way to attract qualified skills to Luxembourg.

National Start-Up Pavilion visited by Minister of Labour Nicolas Schmit

In the same hall the Chamber of Commerce had organized a «National Start-Up Pavilion» under the Luxembourg banner in order to support Luxembourg start-ups in their efforts to become international players. At this collective booth visitors from all around the world could discover services and technologies « made in Luxembourg ».
In this frame, Mr Nicolas Schmit, minister of Labour, Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy accompanied the Luxembourg delegation.