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BUSINESS FROM ADEM TO HTML
Luxembourg’s next crop of web develop ers are hard at work at the Numericall digital training centre. In a large class room, 17 students sit in pairs, examining lines of code. The students are enrolled in Fit4Coding Jobs, a four-month inten sive course provided by Numericall. “This programme is web development from A to Z,” says Alice, a student origi nally from Romania who worked in com munications before deciding to reorient her career path. On the day Delano visited, the class was hard at work in a peer-programming activity involving PHP 7. “The market in Luxembourg asks for PHP, so they train us to be directly operational in it,” says Gabriel, a Luxembourg student.
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6.85% Estimated overvaluation of residential property prices between 2012 and 2017, partially fuelled by an expansion of mortgage credit, according to a report by Sara Ferreira Filipe, an economist at Luxembourg’s central bank (BCL). The trend has slowed in recent quarters, she wrote in February. April 2018
“INSURERS KEEP TELLING US THAT THIS QUESTION IS WHAT KEEPS THEM AWAKE AT NIGHT”
Nicolas Mackel, CEO of Luxembourg for Finance, the government-backed promotion agency, quoted by Reuters in March. The question was whether or not cross-border insurance policies would remain valid, and claims would still be paid, post-Brexit.
BURGEONING STARTUP SCENE
Emilie Bechet of the Luxembourg Open Innovation Club told Delano in an interview in April: “The startup ecosystem is only getting richer.” icon_website www.delano.lu/business
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NUMERICALL TRAINING CENTRE A. Alan Kavanagh of Numericall gives an interview to Delano writer John-Paul Gomez, in his office at the Technoport in Esch-Belval, 1 March B. Students Reza (left) and Gabriel (right) hard at work examining lines of HTML C., D. Fit4CodingJobs students Frank and Nathalie working with PHP 7 E. Roger Wagner of the Adem jobs agency, which places many of the students in the course F. Members of the Numericall team: communication assistant Alan Kavanagh, co-founder Yves Lepage, intern Fanny and co-founder Brigitte Lepage