The Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies was created in October 1990 in the context of a relationship with Harvard University. This relationship began in early 1987 when the then Prime Minister Jacques Santer visited Harvard. A first major academic conference was held in December of the same year on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan, to be followed a year later by a conference on the Western community and the Gorbachev challenge.
Since its inception the Institute has involved students, young researchers and professionals into its endeavours as: research assistants, participants in academic conferences and in conferences simulating the US Congress and Central and Eastern European parliaments, together with students and faculty members from those countries as well as from Luxembourg. With the participation of a consortium of colleges and universities from the State of New York conferences have also simulated the European institutions.
More recently the Institute has turned its attention towards topics that are more directly related to Luxembourg and to the European Union. It has set up a long-term project on the future of the Luxembourg and the wider European social models. It is also about to launch a project on the correlation between the size of countries, and corporations, and their economic success.
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