PriM scholarship

"We are delighted to accept this scholarship by PRiM," stated Professor Christian Wolff, Director of the LSF, "It is yet another sign of our closeness to the Luxembourg financial centre and of the support we obtain from it. It is an excellent example of the type partnerships we seek to establish with players and associations in Luxembourg, which will create value for the financial centre and for the people working in it."

"We are very pleased to support the Luxembourg School of Finance in this way," stated Michael May, President of PRiM. "Risk management has become a critically important discipline in financial services. Our LSF scholarship will contribute to our goal of promoting excellence in the risk management discipline in Luxembourg."

Both full-time and part-time students of the LSF will be eligible to apply for the scholarship. The first scholarship will be presented to a student from the part-time programme beginning January 2010.

Prospective students interested in applying for the PRiM Scholarship should apply in writing to the Luxembourg School of Finance with a letter of motivation. The application must be preceded by an application for enrollment into the LSF Masters Programme.

The Luxembourg School of Finance (www.lsf.lu) is part of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. Established in 2002, it offers a Master of Science in Banking and Finance, with a full-time programme of one year beginning every October, and a part-time programme of two years beginning every January. Tuition fees for the programme amount to 17,500 EUR. The Luxembourg School of Finance is supported by the LSF Foundation comprising major players and associations of the Luxembourg financial centre.

Founded in Luxembourg in July 1997, PRiM (www.prim.lu) has almost 200 members, composed of risk management professionals from banking, insurance, audit and consulting sectors, internal control professionals from a broad range of related functions such compliance and internal audit, together with operational managers and general managers. The principal aims of the association are to act as a Luxembourg-based forum for networking & exchange of information and to seek active cooperation with other Luxembourg professional associations, institutions and authorities.

The association provides and promotes - in co-operation with the “Institut de Formation Bancaire Luxembourg” - risk management training, complemented by conferences and workshops designed to share experience and lessons with risk professionals from other industries. The association newsletter, which first appeared in 2003, is published quarterly through its website.

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Britta Schlüter
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