LNDS Annual Report 2024 – A year of growing impact across 10 domains
We are proud to announce the publication of our Annual Report 2024, reflecting on a year of significant growth. The year encompassed growth in our team, service portfolio and both national and international projects. Together with our data partners across 10 different domains, we have created impact from secondary use of data. We have summarised some of the key contents of the Annual Report in this article and you can read the complete annual report at the end of the page. This year you can also watch a recap annual report in a video format, as we take a look back on 2024 and set an outlook for 2025.
Expanding our data services, tooling & team
After launching our initial 10 data services in our first operational year 2023, we focused on enhancing and expanding our portfolio of data services. We released 5 new services in 2024 and 5 new platforms, along with updating all the initially launched data services. The updates enabled us to provide stronger support to our data partners in creating impact from the reuse of data. All services and tools continue to be co-created through concrete data projects, allowing them to be tested and validated in real-use environments.
“We are proud of the growth of our team and service offering, as well as the expansion of broadening our supporting to more domains, including health, education, mobility, environment, energy, and connectivity among others. This expansion allows us to identify and drive synergies in expertise, services, and tools that can make a significant impact across sectors.”
Bert Verdonck, CEO of LNDS
While data services are our technical cornerstone, our people continue to be our main strength, driving LNDS forward. Adhering to our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we signed the Diversity Charter Lëtzebuerg in May 2024. Our diverse team grew with 80% compared to last year, becoming a team of 61 people, encompassing 32 different nationalities, and 38% women.
23 completed data projects across 10 domains
Indeed, our data projects became more diverse, now encompassing 10 different sectors among the 106 data projects and project proposals that we have received. While in the first years our projects had a strong focus on the health domain, in 2024 we worked on projects within science and technology, finance, environment, culture, transport and more. In total 23 projects were completed, supporting various administrations and organisations across the end-to-end data journey. Projects included topics such as improving data discovery with developing data catalogues and inventories and supporting and enriching data management through enhanced structuring of data and comprehensive data management plans. 10 of these projects were presented on-stage by our partners at the Data Summit Luxembourg, highlighting their real-world impact.
Building growth with trust as a base
Privacy remains at the core of everything we build. We continue to apply data protection by design and by default in all new services and products, guided by our Data Protection Officer and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications experts. In addition, we continued the establishment and implementation of our compliance framework. This included investing significant efforts in the information and privacy security management systems (ISO 27001, ISO 27701) to align our practices with international standards, and integrating rules from the network and information security directive NIS2.
”Our journey toward ISO certification is about more than compliance. Integrity and trust are the foundations on which sustainable data innovation can flourish. In that sense, trust isn’t a checkbox – it’s a culture.”
Christophe Trefois, Head of Technology, LNDS
Creating impact nationally and internationally
On national level the LNDS team’s support has been crucial in supporting the Luxembourgish government in implementing European legislation. The input of our ELSI team has been a cornerstone, supporting the Luxembourgish government in the finalisation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation, where political consensus was reached by the end of 2024. We engaged to move the draft legislation towards a more participatory and transparent approach for citizens and in providing more protection for researchers to generate results before data become re-useable by other stakeholders. The EHDS regulation came into force on 25 March 2025 and is currently under preparations for its implementation. In addition, we continued to support the national implementation of the European Data Governance Act.
“In 2024, the LNDS team made significant contributions to updating the national Data and AI strategies and supported various teams in defining flagship projects aimed at driving major societal and economic impact.”
Romain Martin, Chairman of LNDS Board of Directors
From 7 to 15 projects on European level
Since our inception in 2022, LNDS has brought in 5,4 MEUR in subsidy money. By the end of 2024, we doubled our participation in European level projects, contributing now to 15 initiatives across four programmes (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, EU4Health, Horizon2020). Our involvement in European level projects and initiatives facilitates to position Luxembourg at the heart of Europe’s digital transformation, through fostering knowledge sharing and interoperability.
The European level projects span from health data reuse to building an energy data space. This work includes strategic projects towards the implementation of the EU “1+ Million Genomes” (1+MG) initiatives (Genome of Europe, European Genomics Data Infrastructure), the Second Joint Action Towards the European Health Data Space (TEHDAS2), as well as implementing services and tools for future Health Data Access Bodies (HDAB-LU) in the context of the EHDS.
Celebrating achievements at the Data Summit Luxembourg
The LNDS annual event – Data Summit Luxembourg – gathered 500 local and international participants from academia, government, and industry to foster collaboration and advance data sharing and analysis. Led by addresses from Minister Stéphanie Obertin and Minister Elisabeth Margue the event gave insights into Innovation throughout the Data Journey and marked the release of a significant milestone for Luxembourg, with the announcement of the Luxembourg AI Factory.
This year highlighted collaboration and knowledge sharing, including 17 partners and sponsors, 35 speakers and 2 parallel training sessions, delving into the basics of data protection and data stewardship.
A look into 2025
In 2025, we continue to contribute both locally and globally, supporting the implementation of the new law proposal, participating in European subsidy projects, preparing for the European Health Data Space, and bringing data space frameworks and technologies to life in Luxembourg. Internally, we also continue to invest in compliance and trust-building efforts and aim to become ISO 27001 and 27701 certified. Supporting the national strategies on data and AI, will take a front seat in 2025. At the same time, we continue to mature and to evolve our data services, tooling and enabling capabilities. We will contribute to the kickstart of the Data Factory, as described in the newly published National Data Strategy. In addition, our involvement in the Luxembourg AI Factory will bring AI to a more prominent position also within our activities and our data projects.
This year’s Data Summit Luxembourg will also place a stronger focus on AI. The third edition will bring up critical discussions of data (re)use, data sharing and how to not only enable – but accelerate – positive societal impact through responsible use of data & AI. We look forward to welcoming you at the next Data Summit Luxembourg on 2 December 2025, or at an earlier occasion to discuss and collaborate.
Read the LNDS Annual Report 2024
Watch the video recap
Curious to watch all the videos in a sequence, without going through the entire report? Click here to find the table of contents of the videos.
Welcome
Vision, mission, purpose & way of working
Means for building trust
Our diverse & growing team
Service portfolio
Technology & tooling for a data-driven ecosystem
Impact – Data projects
Impact – European level involvement
Data Summit Luxembourg 2024
Events & media
Financial report
Future outlook
Thank you
Thank you for reading our Annual Report 2024. Aligned with our values and commitment to transparency, all data points of the Annual Report are published on the Luxembourgish Open Data platform.
We want to most notably thank all the people, partners and wider stakeholder community for your ongoing support in shaping Luxembourg’s data ecosystem together. Please reach out with your feedback, questions or suggestions for collaboration.
Press & Media contact:
Catharina Schram, Head of Communications & PR
media@lnds.lu
Find the Press Release in English here and in French here.