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Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Research and Higher Education, took part in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ministerial meeting on science and technology policy, which was held at the OECD headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 April 2024.

Following a DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyber attack aimed at preventing access to several Luxembourg websites, a crisis unit was convened in the afternoon, chaired by the Minister for Digitalisation, Stéphanie Obertin.

Since the morning of 21 March 2024, several government websites have been the target of a cyber DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. A DDOS attack consists of saturating the computer resources of targets.

On 18 March 2024, Yuriko Backes, Minister of Defence, Lex Delles, Minister of the Economy, SME, Energy and Tourism, and Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Research and Higher Education, launched a joint call for research and development (R&D) projects in the field of defence.

At the invitation of TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, and his wife Eva Pavlová are paying a State visit to Luxembourg from 29 February to 1 March 2024. The presidential couple is accompanied by a delegation including around thirty Czech companies.

At the invitation of TRH the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, and his wife Eva Pavlová are paying a State visit to Luxembourg from 29 February to 1 March 2024. The presidential couple is accompanied by a delegation including around thirty Czech companies.

Yuriko Backes, Minister for Gender Equality and Diversity, and Prof. Jens Kreisel, Rector of the University of Luxembourg, have signed an agreement announcing the third collaboration between the Ministry for Gender Equality and Diversity (MEGA), the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and Research Luxembourg on the "Women and Girls in Science 2024" campaign.

On 5 February 2024, the Minister for Research and Higher Education and Minister for Digitalisation, Stéphanie Obertin, met Her Excellency Fleur Thomas, the UK Ambassador to Luxembourg, as part of a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Research and Higher Education.

Interview with Stéphanie Obertin in the Chronicle.lu