The University of the Sorbonne in Paris will not welcome UNI students in the second year of medicine for the 2025/2026 academic year, despite the convention that links the two universities.
The Association of Circles of Luxembourg students (ACEL), the youth section of the CSV (CSJ) as well as the Minister of Higher Education, Stéphanie Obertin, regret this decision, of which of which The exact reason has not yet been specified.
The Sorbonne did not react either to the requests of RTL. For a number of students who started their medical studies in Luxembourg, it is perhaps the end of a dream, says the president of ACEL, Gianni Di Paoli.
“If a student’s project was to go to the Sorbonne after his first year, or if he worked very hard to get a good ranking, then the news that this is no longer possible is of course extremely bitter.”
In his answer to a parliamentary question by deputy CSV Laurent Mosar, Stéphanie Obertin, the Minister of Higher Education, also deplores that the Sorbonne no longer welcomes any future Luxembourg doctor for the academic start 2025/2026. Since 2020, the University of Luxembourg, however, has attracted students by offering A full medical bachelor in medicine. 130 places are available in the first year and then just over 30 for the next two years.
For other UNI medical students. Lu. who succeeded in their second year, the University of Luxembourg signed conventions with universities from neighboring countries. Namely four in France: La Sorbonne, another university in Paris, the University of Strasbourg and the University of Lorraine. UNI.LU also signed an agreement with the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in Belgium, as well as with the German universities in Munich, Erlangen-Nürnberg and Würzburg.
The Sorbonne is no longer an option, The 34 places reserved for Luxembourg medical students in France will therefore be distributed among the three other partner universitiesaccording to Minister Stéphanie Obertin’s response to the parliamentary question.
The CSJ and the ACEL maintain that European universities cooperate. However, they call on the University of Luxembourg to expand its offer of medical studies. The president of ACEL, Gianni Di Paoli:
“The objective, as one imagines is a master’s degree in medicine. ACEL is also favorable to the possibility of continuing its studies here. However, it remains important for us to be able to acquire experience abroad.” “
Luxembourg needs doctors. After all it is not a mystery that there is a shortage of doctors and that the next generation is not assured.