About This Site

The website as available at https://www.liser.lu/ (“Website”) is the ownership of the Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research Institute (“LISER”), a Luxembourg public research institute governed by the law of 3 December 2014 (“Organic Law”), with offices at Maison des Sciences Humaines, 11 Porte des Sciences, L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

Publication Director: Olivia Dutriaux, Marketing and Fundraising Manager

To contact LISER: 

·       E-mail: contact@liser.lu

·       Phone: (+352) 58 58 55 - 1

In its capacity as a public research centre, per Article 3 of the Organic Law, the objectives of LISER is to undertake research, development and innovation activities in order to promote the transfer of knowledge and technology and to undertake scientific and technological cooperation at the national and international levels. Research, development and innovation at LISER shall also be carried out within the framework of the policy defined by the Government and with regard to the programmes defined by the national research fund created by the amended law of 31 May 1999 establishing a national fund for research in the public sector. LISER shall set out its research, development and innovation objectives in their multiannual programme.

This Website is one of the instruments of LISER’s fulfillment of its objective and associated missions.

Website Content

This Website presents to the public LISER’s activities and various research projects to which LISER is part. It aims to provide up-to-date information but does not warrant that no errors are included. Any errors brought to LISER’s attention by its contact details will be corrected whenever possible.

When accessing and using this Website, users acknowledge and accept that LISER does not accept any responsibility or liability for any of the following information disseminated on this website:

-          This website may contain hyperlinks linking to third-party platforms that could be of interest to the public or visitors. LISER accepts no responsibility or liability regarding these websites out of its control. Any access by users of any third-party platform or other website via hyperlink from the Website is subject to the terms of service of such third-party platform(s) or website(s) and at users’ sole risk; and

-          The use of the publications made by LISER on its Website by any user is at the sole risk of that user.

LISER reserves the right to modify the entire Website, as well as the Website’s contents, at any moment.

Further LISER disclaims all warranties for the Website, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, satisfactory quality, title, quiet enjoyment or from a course of dealing, course of performance or usage in trade. Any access by company of any third-party platform or other website via hyperlink from the Website is subject to the terms of service of such third-party platform(s) or website(s) and at users’ sole risk. LISER makes no warranty whatsoever with respect to the accuracy, availability, completeness, functionality, reliability, security, timeliness, usefulness, or any other aspect of any third-party platform or third-party content or website and the data and information contained thereon or obtained therefrom.

Intellectual Property Rights

Access to the content and publications of this Website is free of charge but is subject to intellectual property rights including but not limited to copyright as defined in the law of 18 April 2001 of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Any reproduction (other than for strictly private use) must be authorised by the author.

All information available on this Website are protected by copyright as a default. Unless otherwise indicated, reproduction of the texts on this site for non-commercial purposes, and in particular for educational purposes, is authorised provided that the following and cumulative three conditions are met:

-          Free distribution ;

-          Respect for the integrity of the documents reproduced: no modifications or alterations of any kind; and

-          Explicit mention of the https://www.liser.lu/ website as the source and mention that reproduction rights are reserved and limited with the copyright ©LISER or ©Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research.

Any exception to these rules shall be subject to the prior written agreement of LISER and the author(s) of the content concerned.

The articles and content published on this Website by LISER have been generated using information, techniques, data, databases, algorithms, methodology, models, results, design, technology, material, inventions and/or software and any intellectual property rights as well as publicly available data, facts and information. For the avoidance of doubt, LISER remains the sole owner of all LISER’s material, deliverables and work unless as otherwise specifically agreed with the relevant funding authority of a particular project or with a relevant partner where applicable.

The articles and content published by LISER on this Website for dissemination of the knowledge, research and/or teaching purposes, may be accessed to and used freely on an “AS IS” basis, without any representation or warranty of any kind by LISER, either express or implied, including but not limited to any warranty or conditions of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

Transparency and accessibility

Per legal requirement including but not limited to the law of 14 September 2018 on transparent and open administration, LISER seeks to make available on its Website certain documents intended to inform the public about its organisation. These documents are updated on a regular basis.

Further, per the Law of 28 May 2019 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies, LISER cares about using the technologies available and economically reasonable at the time of the creation of the Website in order to help render its Website accessible to most. In case of any access or use difficulty encountered by any user of this Website, we invite you to contact us at contact@liser.lu or by phone at (+352) 58 58 55 – 1 in order to discuss those issues.

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