Our Commitments

At LIST, we created an open, agile and positive culture, based on ownership and accountability. We strive to nurture our existing talents and attract new ones to be at the forefront of technological development in our research fields, thus giving Luxembourg international prestige. To do this, we rely on a culture of transparency, high safety standards, recognition of our employees, and respect for people and decisions, and we promote a spirit of entrepreneurship within our organisation.

At LIST, we are not just at the cutting edge of our time's major scientific and technological subjects. We go beyond the cutting edge, setting up ambitious projects, exploring complex and high-risk fields, and addressing global challenges. We are a bold partner, ready to take the risks that our industrial partners cannot bear alone in their innovation processes. Our aim is to provide useful and beneficial innovations for society by excelling in everything that we do. To achieve this, everyone has a role to play, from our researchers to our administration and support teams.

LIST develops innovative and competitive solutions to meet Luxembourgish and European companies' key needs and society as a whole. To strenghthen their innovation projects, we transfer our applied research to support public and private organisations, whether large industrial groups, SMEs or public administrations. We therefore help to make the country more attractive and competitive. We are working on projects that benefit society, the planet and quality of life in general. In a nutshell, LIST is building the Luxembourg of tomorrow: a smart economy based on industrial and service transformation and committed to sustainable and responsible development.

LIST works on projects with substantial added value for the market, on short and long-term research and innovation requests. We strive to understand our partners' needs and offer them the flexibility and agility that they need to optimise their time to market. We believe that strategic research and applied research are mutually reinforcing. Therefore we work with our partners in a “push and pull” dynamic: we pro-actively propose innovations that will contribute to our industrial partner’s technological roadmap, and, at the same time, adapt our research agenda to their innovation needs. We work not only with private sector partners, but also with those in the public sector such as the Luxembourg Ministries of Agriculture, Defence, the Economy and the Environment as well as our Luxembourg research partners: the University of Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).

LIST participates in responsible, inclusive and sustainable research and innovation. This involves anticipating and assessing the potential implications and societal expectations regarding research and innovation. To this end, we involve the stakeholders of society (researchers, citizens, policymakers, companies, etc.) and work together throughout the research and innovation process, to better align both the process and its results with the values, ethical principles, needs and expectations of society.

Sustainable Development is most often defined as development meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. LIST recognises the interdependencies of economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainability and considers that its organisational performance and impacts have to be managed and measured according to all of these. LIST will be a pioneer in sustainability by design, striving to develop new technologies that provide a specific function or service while minimising their environmental footprint on climate change, resource use, ecosystems, human and environmental health, and biodiversity from a lifecycle perspective. The integration of design and system thinking should become a driver to spur sustainable innovation at LIST. Altogether, LIST seeks to be at the forefront of developing technologies that will enable the switch to decarbonisation in all major emitting industrial sectors, including green digital technologies.