Growth & Development

Tailored career development, onboarding, AI tools, mobility schemes, and leadership programmes.

Grow your expertise throughout your career

Our Ambition

Your time at LIST should make you grow — as a person and as a professional. We invest in your development not just because it drives organizational performance, but because it is the right thing to do for every individual who chooses to build their career with us.

As stipulated in its collective labor agreement, LIST allocates a significant percentage of its salary mass to the training budget. In 2025, this represented approximately 10,000 hours of training. Our dedicated Learning & Development team partners with managers to build training catalogues, tailor-made learning journeys, and individualized growth plans.

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Training Hours invested in employee learning and development in 2025

Internal AI Tool

Developed in-house to cover daily working needs. This secure, internal AI tool helps employees increase productivity, streamline workflows, and explore new ways of working — safely and responsibly.

Start with confidence

LIST's onboarding programme is designed to ensure smooth integration — professionally, administratively, and culturally.

The process blends practical preparation with genuine human welcome, so every newcomer starts their journey with confidence.

Administrative Support

Support teams manage essential administrative tasks to ensure the newcomer is set up correctly. This includes ordering equipment, arranging building access badges, setting up IT accounts, and adding them to relevant mailing lists.

Day One

From day one, you receive the practical guidance, systems access and local information you need to settle in and focus on your role.

Training

Your onboarding includes the essential safety, data, information-security and workplace-awareness training relevant to your role.

Integration

Team meetings and community introduction

Career Framework & Professional Development

LIST's career framework is aligned with the European Framework for Research Careers, providing a transparent, fair, and durable structure for progression:

  • Responds to LIST's needs as a Research and Technology Organization (RTO)
  • Based on transparent and fair career progression criteria
  • Flexible system that supports organizational growth
  • Facilitates internal, external, and transversal career moves

Projects That Transform

LIST's location at the heart of Europe enables close, continuous interaction with policymakers, regulators, and public institutions. Luxembourg's compact ecosystem allows:

  • Proximity to Decision-Makers
    Direct access to European policy and regulatory institutions enables researchers to shape standards and strategies.
  • Industry Partnerships
    Trusted links with leading companies accelerate research translation and open doors for collaborative innovation.
  • Ecosystem Density
    Luxembourg's size is a strategic advantage — short decision paths, high accessibility, and dense professional networks

Expanding Horizons — Researcher Mobility at LIST

LIST actively supports researcher mobility as a driver of excellence, collaboration, and career development. Mobility schemes open doors to leading international institutions and strengthen both individual expertise and collective scientific impact.

Work with leading research teams and institutions abroad through structured international mobility schemes. In recent years, several researchers have taken advantage of external mobility and sabbatical opportunities, demonstrating the flexibility embedded in our career framework.

Explore new scientific domains, functions, or project teams within LIST - broadening expertise and career trajectories.

 A dynamic exchange environment where ideas circulate freely and cross-disciplinary collaboration thrives.

As a multidisciplinary RTO, LIST offers unique internal mobility pathways across scientific domains, projects, and functions — empowering employees to evolve in alignment with both their aspirations and the institute's priorities.

Grow as a leader

Whether you are stepping into leadership or strengthening your management practice, you can develop practical skills in communication, trust, collaboration and values-driven leadership.

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