Study Programme Representatives 2022/2023

The Study Programme Representatives (SPRs) of the BiCS for the academic year 2022/23 were appointed by the BiCS office last Friday. They are: Antonia CUBA (Year 1) Valentina RONDINELLI (Year 2) Federica MAESTRI (Year 2) Stefan CAPITANESCU (Year 2) Umut UCAK (Year 3) Daria ANTROPOVA (Year 3) Each SPR started his/her functions the 10/10/2022, and will … Continued

Summer semester 2021-2022 kick off

This morning, Dr. Alfredo Capozucca (Vice Study Programme director of the BiCS) opened the summer semester with an informaiton session for each cohort (1st, 2nd, and 3rd year). Below you can find the links to the slides shown during these informative sessions for each cohort. Information session slides – First Year students Information session slides … Continued

First meeting between the BiCS office and the BiCS’ SPRs

On Monday 15 November, 2021 the first general meeting of the academic year 2021/2022 between the BiCS office (represented by Dr. Alfredo Capozucca) and the Student Programme Representatives (SPRs) took place. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss about the results of the survey of the winter courses after 3 weeks of teaching. … Continued

New version of the study regulations

A new version of the study regulations (règlement des études) was approved by the Minister on 17 September 2021 and published in the Official Gazette on 15 November 2021. This version supersedes all the previous ones. Main changes introduced by this version are related to the supplementary material provided along with the diploma (Art 61) … Continued

Return to full in-person teaching – New rules

As stated by the Rector of the University on 20/10/2021, the University planned to return to full in-person teaching starting by 8 November 2021. Last Friday (29/10/2021), the VRA office released the guidelines aimed at organising the return to full on-site teaching. These guidelines are attached, and you must read them entirely. The guidelines can … Continued

BiCS students visit MeluXina

On Thursday 21 October, 2021 a selected group of BiCS students had the opportunity to visit MeluXina, Luxembourg’s new supercomputer and one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. MeluXina has been installed in LuxConnect’s Data Center DC2 in Bissen, and is operational since June 2021. Professor Luis Leiva arranged the visit with the help … Continued

First day of courses: 20 September 2021

Dear BiCS students, The academic year starts on Monday 20th of September of 2021. An information session is organised for each cohort. The sessions will take place in the room: 3.520 MSA, at the Belval Campus. Due to the current capacity occupancy constraints in place at the University of Luxembourg we had to split each cohort … Continued

Changes in BiCS Administration

Dear BiCS’s students, dear colleagues, On September the 17th of 2021, my mandate as Study Director of the BiCS comes to an end, It has been a challenging and wonderful journey, but also very demanding. Thus, it is time to me to step down and let other people takeover this challenge that started in 2015. … Continued