While it was already possible to submit an application digitally, the procedure used to require a Luxtrust certificate.

This is no longer the case since 1 August 2021.

Minister of Education Claude Meisch expects the number of digital applications to increase further.

So far, around 60% of residents filed their applications for student aid online, but only 8% of non-residents, Meisch explained. The reason for this was that non-residents usually do not have a Luxtrust certificate and thus continued to submit their applications via paper documents. According to Meisch, the Ministry can already see that the new procedure has brought "great progress".

10,000 applications have so far been submitted for the current semester, and only seven of them were still sent in via paper documents. This means, Meisch stated, that Luxembourg has taken "another major step towards the digitalisation of the entire process of grants and loans".

The new procedure was developed by the Ministry for Digitalisation and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in cooperation with the Government IT Centre (CTIE) and at the initiative of the State Bank and Savings Fund (Spuerkeess). While the other banks are "not yet on board", Meisch stated that he thinks this will be the case two years from now "at the latest".

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