Faculty Economics Management Communication Politics (EMCP) is a school that listens to people and is open to the world. It offers training in four major disciplines, in day courses or on a staggered timetable, with a strong commitment to student supervision and support. It conducts excellent interdisciplinary scientific research in cutting-edge fields. For tomorrow's experts and decision-makers!

Diplomation Master gestion 2024

Following tradition, we are pleased to invite you to the graduation ceremony for the Promotion 2024 of the Masters in Management Sciences and Management Engineering on November 29.

The studies

The Faculty offers high-quality, local training that emphasizes rigor and critical thinking beyond pure knowledge. It strives to make its future experts and decision-makers aware of societal responsibility, interdisciplinarity and the international dimension. The bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs it offers are in four major disciplines:

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Pedagogy: a strong commitment!

The Faculty attaches the utmost importance to supervising and supporting students, whether in daytime classes or on a staggered timetable. Learning by doing, service learning, staggered schedule hybridization, ... Come and discover our pedagogical approach as well as our various schemes.

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The Faculty, also in staggered hours

Do you want to study on a shift schedule? The Faculty offers a range of adapted training courses.

Spotlight

News

Our researchers in the World's Top 2% Scientists list

Ranking

Stanford University has published a prestigious ranking that highlights the most influential researchers in a wide range of scientific fields. The list, based on bibliographic criteria, aims to provide a standardized means of identifying the world's scientific leaders. It is one criterion among others for assessing the quality of scientific research. Twelve researchers from the University of Namur are among them!

Top 2% scientists

This list, created by Stanford University and published in August 2024 is compiled in collaboration with Elsevier's ICST lab from Scopus data, aims to provide a standardized means of identifying the world's best scientists and recognizing those scientists who have had a significant impact on their respective fields.

While this list has been adopted by many institutions as a reliable measure of research impact, it is not the only way to evaluate research. Based strictly on bibliometric data, it is also subject to criticism.

Since September 2023, the University of Namur has been strengthening its commitment to the implementation of research assessment reform with the signing of the "Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) "agreement.

This agreement commits the institution to a series of principles, including taking into account career diversity and emphasizing qualitative research criteria rather than relying solely on bibliometric (and therefore quantitative) data.

Namur University researchers honored

The list is updated every year, with data on the whole career and impacts on a single year, for the sake of transparency and relevance.

The measurement criteria used

A variety of bibliometric measures are taken into account to ensure a fair and balanced representation of researchers' work.

  • The C-score: this composite score is based on various bibliometric factors, including the total number of citations.
  • The h-index: this impact indicator takes into account the number of a researcher's publications as well as the number of their citations.
  • The percentiles of fields and subfields : scientists are classified into 22 major fields and 176 subfields. Only those who rank in the top 2% of their subfield are taken into account.
  • Career-wide or single-year impact: rankings are available for both career-wide impact and single-year performance, providing a better understanding of long-term contribution and recent achievements.

Research excellence

Figuring among this top 2% of scientists is therefore a prestigious recognition of an individual's contribution to science and demonstrates the excellence of their research, enhancing their reputation in academia and industry.

The ranking offers visibility across all disciplines, drawing attention to work that might otherwise remain in a niche or be under-appreciated. It also serves as a benchmark for institutions and governments to assess the influence of their research programs.

Many institutions use the ranking to measure the success of their faculty, or other entity, which can also enhance credibility within the academic community.

This list encourages scientists to focus on producing high-quality, impactful research rather than chasing quantity.

By compiling data from all scientific fields and offering a fair, metrics-based approach, this ranking not only celebrates individual achievements, but also highlights the importance of impactful research in advancing knowledge. However, it must be qualified, as it only takes into account quantitative data, which are not necessarily representative of the full diversity of research.

According to another database, that of UNESCO, the number of researchers in the world is increasing by 300,000 per year, reaching 9 million today. The Top 2% comprises 200,000 names, including twelve researchers from the University of Namur.

Congratulations to them for their excellent research and for this prestigious worldwide recognition!

The Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management becomes "EMCP", symbolizing a joint effort for a better society

Institution

After more than 60 years in existence, the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management (FSESG) at the University of Namur unveils its new name for the start of the academic year. It has become the EMCP Faculty, or Faculté Économie Management Communication sciencesPo. Every year, many students are trained here to become future experts and decision-makers in economics, management, communications and political science. How do you reconcile teaching methods and research with the challenges of a society in transition? This is the challenge taken up by the EMCP vision, a reflection of reflection and experience, carried forward by students and staff alike.

Etudiants de l'UNamur en EMCP

From just a few dozen students and staff in its early days, the Faculty today boasts a close-knit community of over 1700 students and 250 staff members, teachers, researchers and administrative staff.

Four major teaching and research disciplines have marked the Faculty's development and over the years have become its pillars: economics and political and social sciences first, then management and communication.

Far from the usual silos, the Faculty makes it a point of honor for its chosen disciplines to collaborate, question and feed off each other in order to develop the skills of students and researchers so that together they can contribute to the challenges of a society in transition, whether economic, political, social, environmental or digital.

The Faculty's three missions are:

  • To train students and researchers for their future role as experts and responsible decision-makers through scientifically rigorous, hands-on teaching, developing their critical thinking and openness to the world,
  • To ensure ambitious, high-quality research in its areas of expertise, aiming for international scientific impact, open to interdisciplinarity, which feeds teaching, innovation and social and societal debates,
  • To be a responsible player in the development of our society on the economic, social, environmental and political levels, by sharing knowledge, advising and assisting in decision-making both regionally, nationally and internationally.

It is therefore only natural that the FSESG should become the Faculty EMCP, a name now incorporating communication and political sciences and reflecting the importance they have acquired in recent years. Four disciplines united to prepare students and researchers in a transdisciplinary way for the challenges of tomorrow.

"EMCP is therefore more than just a name change. It embodies a vision," emphasizes Pietro Zidda, Dean of the EMCP Faculty.

"It highlights, without distinction, the Faculty's 4 major teaching and research disciplines. EMCP is therefore a symbol of inclusion, transdisciplinarity and collaboration. It reflects the existence of a strong community, embracing the participation of students and staff, paying particular attention to respecting their diversity and contribution."

Pietro Zidda - Doyen de la Faculté EMCP

And beyond the symbolism, EMCP embodies the vitality of a faculty embedded in the University of Namur, proud of its values of openness, excellence, sustainability and freedom, putting people at the center of its concerns, in the service of humanity and the common good.

Innovative and conclusive teaching experiments

Within the Faculty, various projects and teaching experiments illustrate this EMCP vision:

  • (New in 2024) UNamur School of Management. Gone are the days of everything to do with "business administration", as the Faculty renames its department to reflect its resolutely responsible and sustainable vision of management: helping to create and make a success of shared, responsible projects, whether for-profit or not.
  • (New in 2024) Specialized Master's degree in Management and Economics of Sustainable Development (MEDD). In addition to the transformation of existing programs with the aim of reinforcing transdisciplinarity in the service of transitions, a new program with a staggered timetable sees the light of day. The MEDD master's degree aims to rethink public policies, corporate strategies, and modes of collaboration, production and consumption, in the light of today's environmental and societal challenges.
  • (New in 2024) The Journées d'Education au Développement Durable et à la Transition écologique (JEDDT) are the perfect example of this desire to break down the barriers between disciplines in the service of transitions. Aimed at students from all faculties in a cross-disciplinary perspective, these days, in which the Faculty actively participates, enable them to work creatively in workshops and multidisciplinary teams on themes linked to the challenges of transitions, mixing legal, political, economic, managerial, medical, philosophical, scientific, IT and other perspectives.
  • Learning by Doing is a pedagogical approach developed by the Faculty, which fundamentally alters university teaching as traditionally conceived. Knowledge is acquired through concrete projects, practice and experience. These are intended to be collaborative and interdisciplinary, and intensify over the course of the curriculum. Revolutionizing university pedagogy, they now form the backbone of the teaching programs offered by the faculty. The aim is to lead students, thanks to the monitoring and coaching of teachers, to decompartmentalize subjects and mobilize their knowledge and skills around concrete cases linked to the challenges of transitions.
  • Regards Croisés aims to cultivate the critical thinking of the Faculty's students about a topical issue by offering a cross-disciplinary look at the different disciplines taught. The question is tackled in different courses, and teachers invite each other to cross-fertilize their contributions. The initiative culminates in a conference at which experts from the world of associations, politics and business are invited to debate with students.
  • Service Learning is a pedagogical approach aimed at incorporating societal commitment into traditional academic teaching. The aim for students is to apply skills worked on in courses in various disciplines to become involved in an organization whose missions relate to societal themes, such as social justice, migration or the environment.

A look back at the start of the new academic year for the EMCP Faculty

PROFILE - Michel Ajzen, the surgeon of managerial and organizational practices

Management
Durable
Wellness

How can teleworking and face-to-face work be reconciled? How can these professional practices be framed to reinforce the innovative and sustainable dimensions of hybrid work? These are the questions that Michel Ajzen, a specialist in organizational management, is tackling as part of his teaching assignments in the Department of Management Sciences at UNamur. His research focuses on hybrid work and organizational innovation, with a transdisciplinary approach aimed at reinventing managerial practices to meet contemporary challenges.

Michel Ajzen

In January 2024, Michel Ajzen joined UNamur's Department of Management Sciences as Professor of Organization and Innovation Management. In addition to his professorial role, he is also a member of the Creativity and Innovation Research Center (CIRCE) within the Namur Digital Insitute (NaDI), where he continues to explore the innovative and sustainable dimensions of hybrid work.

Michel Ajzen's research focuses primarily on organizational and managerial innovation, with a particular interest in hybrid work. His thesis, focusing on telecommuting during the crisis, provided the foundation for his current work on "sustainable hybrid work". He strives to understand the organizational, managerial and human stakes of temporal and spatial flexibility and technologies in work.

He examines the reconfiguration of work relationships in hybrid environments, the management of comfort differences with these new modalities, and the challenges of preserving the collective and commitment to work. He also explores the crucial role of proximity managers in this context, focusing on their sustainability and questions of well-being at work, inclusion and sustainability. His research highlights the risks of over-individualization of work and the ethical implications in terms of equity and collective solidarity. He advocates a contextual, trans-disciplinary approach to exploring sustainable solutions, in close collaboration with stakeholders in the field. Its aim is to develop critical thinking and innovative management practices in response to contemporary challenges in the world of work. It contributes to enriching the field of management through its in-depth reflections and significant contributions to understanding hybrid work and its impacts on organizations and their members.

His pre-UNamur career

Michel Ajzen began his academic career at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he obtained a master's degree in human resources management. He then continued his studies with a PhD in Management Sciences at Louvain. During his doctoral years, Michel was an assistant at the School of Labor Sciences in Leuven, which enabled him to gain solid pedagogical experience while conducting rigorous research.

After obtaining his PhD, Michel Ajzen was awarded a four-year contract as a post-doctoral fellow at Leuven. Alongside his post-doctoral work, he held the position of research manager of a chair in human management, demonstrating his ability to juggle academic, high-level research and team management roles. He was also a visiting lecturer at Louvain.

Further information

Découvrez le Département des sciences de gestion (recherche et formation).

UNamur researcher wins Best Research Paper Award at American Marketing Association conference - SERVSIG

Price
Publication

Floriane Goosse, a PhD student at the University of Namur, within the NaDI-CeRCLe research center, has received the prestigious "Best Research Paper Award" for her thesis paper conducted in collaboration with Wafa Hammedi, professor in the Department of Management at UNamur, and Dominik Mahr, from Maastricht University.

Réception du prix "Best paper Award"

Floriane Goosse's thesis explores how voice assistants (such as Alexa and Google Assistant) can improve the well-being of users in vulnerable situations, particularly visually impaired people. More concretely, her research aims in the first instance to understand how these technologies can impact the well-being of these users, and help them and their families on the path to resilience. Secondly, it seeks to personalize voice assistants to better meet the needs of these people. The aim is to adapt not only technical functionalities, but also more subtle aspects such as intonation and voice type. This personalization could play a therapeutic role, helping users - and their loved ones - to better accept and manage their disability. This study represents a major advance in understanding the role of technology and in promoting the inclusion and well-being of vulnerable groups in society.

The efforts of this research team have been crowned with success. In June 2024, this work won the prestigious "Best Research Paper Award" at the American Marketing Association's SERVSIG 2024 conference in Bordeaux. The originality and societal impact of the subject were particularly commended. The methodological approach of the work was also highlighted. Indeed, through fieldwork with associations helping the visually impaired, this research shows a potential to transform and impact lives.

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Floriane Goosse

I'd like to emphasize the links created with the associations we met, working together hand in hand. There's nothing more wonderful than talking to someone [met through the associations] and seeing that the results of our research have had an impact on their life

.
Floriane Goosse Doctoral student at UNamur

Wafa Hammedi emphasizes the importance of the societal impact of her PhD student's research and, more broadly, that carried out at UNamur's Centre de Recherche en Marketing et Management des Services, the NaDI-CeRCLe. "Our research aims to promote a more inclusive society and make this world a better place for all," adds Wafa Hammedi. "The potential lies in applying the results to change something in these people's world. It also questions the meaning of what an academic does. You have to have passion for research, and we're even more passionate when we know that what we produce will have meaning. "

The University of Namur stands out here for the societal impact of its research, transforming it into concrete solutions for a more inclusive society. Floriane Goosse and her co-authors have high ambitions for the future. Their work demonstrates that academic research can and must have a direct impact on society. International collaboration, particularly with renowned institutions at the cutting edge of technological advances such as Maastricht University, strengthens the relevance and innovation of research projects!

Our researchers in the World's Top 2% Scientists list

Ranking

Stanford University has published a prestigious ranking that highlights the most influential researchers in a wide range of scientific fields. The list, based on bibliographic criteria, aims to provide a standardized means of identifying the world's scientific leaders. It is one criterion among others for assessing the quality of scientific research. Twelve researchers from the University of Namur are among them!

Top 2% scientists

This list, created by Stanford University and published in August 2024 is compiled in collaboration with Elsevier's ICST lab from Scopus data, aims to provide a standardized means of identifying the world's best scientists and recognizing those scientists who have had a significant impact on their respective fields.

While this list has been adopted by many institutions as a reliable measure of research impact, it is not the only way to evaluate research. Based strictly on bibliometric data, it is also subject to criticism.

Since September 2023, the University of Namur has been strengthening its commitment to the implementation of research assessment reform with the signing of the "Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) "agreement.

This agreement commits the institution to a series of principles, including taking into account career diversity and emphasizing qualitative research criteria rather than relying solely on bibliometric (and therefore quantitative) data.

Namur University researchers honored

The list is updated every year, with data on the whole career and impacts on a single year, for the sake of transparency and relevance.

The measurement criteria used

A variety of bibliometric measures are taken into account to ensure a fair and balanced representation of researchers' work.

  • The C-score: this composite score is based on various bibliometric factors, including the total number of citations.
  • The h-index: this impact indicator takes into account the number of a researcher's publications as well as the number of their citations.
  • The percentiles of fields and subfields : scientists are classified into 22 major fields and 176 subfields. Only those who rank in the top 2% of their subfield are taken into account.
  • Career-wide or single-year impact: rankings are available for both career-wide impact and single-year performance, providing a better understanding of long-term contribution and recent achievements.

Research excellence

Figuring among this top 2% of scientists is therefore a prestigious recognition of an individual's contribution to science and demonstrates the excellence of their research, enhancing their reputation in academia and industry.

The ranking offers visibility across all disciplines, drawing attention to work that might otherwise remain in a niche or be under-appreciated. It also serves as a benchmark for institutions and governments to assess the influence of their research programs.

Many institutions use the ranking to measure the success of their faculty, or other entity, which can also enhance credibility within the academic community.

This list encourages scientists to focus on producing high-quality, impactful research rather than chasing quantity.

By compiling data from all scientific fields and offering a fair, metrics-based approach, this ranking not only celebrates individual achievements, but also highlights the importance of impactful research in advancing knowledge. However, it must be qualified, as it only takes into account quantitative data, which are not necessarily representative of the full diversity of research.

According to another database, that of UNESCO, the number of researchers in the world is increasing by 300,000 per year, reaching 9 million today. The Top 2% comprises 200,000 names, including twelve researchers from the University of Namur.

Congratulations to them for their excellent research and for this prestigious worldwide recognition!

The Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management becomes "EMCP", symbolizing a joint effort for a better society

Institution

After more than 60 years in existence, the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management (FSESG) at the University of Namur unveils its new name for the start of the academic year. It has become the EMCP Faculty, or Faculté Économie Management Communication sciencesPo. Every year, many students are trained here to become future experts and decision-makers in economics, management, communications and political science. How do you reconcile teaching methods and research with the challenges of a society in transition? This is the challenge taken up by the EMCP vision, a reflection of reflection and experience, carried forward by students and staff alike.

Etudiants de l'UNamur en EMCP

From just a few dozen students and staff in its early days, the Faculty today boasts a close-knit community of over 1700 students and 250 staff members, teachers, researchers and administrative staff.

Four major teaching and research disciplines have marked the Faculty's development and over the years have become its pillars: economics and political and social sciences first, then management and communication.

Far from the usual silos, the Faculty makes it a point of honor for its chosen disciplines to collaborate, question and feed off each other in order to develop the skills of students and researchers so that together they can contribute to the challenges of a society in transition, whether economic, political, social, environmental or digital.

The Faculty's three missions are:

  • To train students and researchers for their future role as experts and responsible decision-makers through scientifically rigorous, hands-on teaching, developing their critical thinking and openness to the world,
  • To ensure ambitious, high-quality research in its areas of expertise, aiming for international scientific impact, open to interdisciplinarity, which feeds teaching, innovation and social and societal debates,
  • To be a responsible player in the development of our society on the economic, social, environmental and political levels, by sharing knowledge, advising and assisting in decision-making both regionally, nationally and internationally.

It is therefore only natural that the FSESG should become the Faculty EMCP, a name now incorporating communication and political sciences and reflecting the importance they have acquired in recent years. Four disciplines united to prepare students and researchers in a transdisciplinary way for the challenges of tomorrow.

"EMCP is therefore more than just a name change. It embodies a vision," emphasizes Pietro Zidda, Dean of the EMCP Faculty.

"It highlights, without distinction, the Faculty's 4 major teaching and research disciplines. EMCP is therefore a symbol of inclusion, transdisciplinarity and collaboration. It reflects the existence of a strong community, embracing the participation of students and staff, paying particular attention to respecting their diversity and contribution."

Pietro Zidda - Doyen de la Faculté EMCP

And beyond the symbolism, EMCP embodies the vitality of a faculty embedded in the University of Namur, proud of its values of openness, excellence, sustainability and freedom, putting people at the center of its concerns, in the service of humanity and the common good.

Innovative and conclusive teaching experiments

Within the Faculty, various projects and teaching experiments illustrate this EMCP vision:

  • (New in 2024) UNamur School of Management. Gone are the days of everything to do with "business administration", as the Faculty renames its department to reflect its resolutely responsible and sustainable vision of management: helping to create and make a success of shared, responsible projects, whether for-profit or not.
  • (New in 2024) Specialized Master's degree in Management and Economics of Sustainable Development (MEDD). In addition to the transformation of existing programs with the aim of reinforcing transdisciplinarity in the service of transitions, a new program with a staggered timetable sees the light of day. The MEDD master's degree aims to rethink public policies, corporate strategies, and modes of collaboration, production and consumption, in the light of today's environmental and societal challenges.
  • (New in 2024) The Journées d'Education au Développement Durable et à la Transition écologique (JEDDT) are the perfect example of this desire to break down the barriers between disciplines in the service of transitions. Aimed at students from all faculties in a cross-disciplinary perspective, these days, in which the Faculty actively participates, enable them to work creatively in workshops and multidisciplinary teams on themes linked to the challenges of transitions, mixing legal, political, economic, managerial, medical, philosophical, scientific, IT and other perspectives.
  • Learning by Doing is a pedagogical approach developed by the Faculty, which fundamentally alters university teaching as traditionally conceived. Knowledge is acquired through concrete projects, practice and experience. These are intended to be collaborative and interdisciplinary, and intensify over the course of the curriculum. Revolutionizing university pedagogy, they now form the backbone of the teaching programs offered by the faculty. The aim is to lead students, thanks to the monitoring and coaching of teachers, to decompartmentalize subjects and mobilize their knowledge and skills around concrete cases linked to the challenges of transitions.
  • Regards Croisés aims to cultivate the critical thinking of the Faculty's students about a topical issue by offering a cross-disciplinary look at the different disciplines taught. The question is tackled in different courses, and teachers invite each other to cross-fertilize their contributions. The initiative culminates in a conference at which experts from the world of associations, politics and business are invited to debate with students.
  • Service Learning is a pedagogical approach aimed at incorporating societal commitment into traditional academic teaching. The aim for students is to apply skills worked on in courses in various disciplines to become involved in an organization whose missions relate to societal themes, such as social justice, migration or the environment.

A look back at the start of the new academic year for the EMCP Faculty

PROFILE - Michel Ajzen, the surgeon of managerial and organizational practices

Management
Durable
Wellness

How can teleworking and face-to-face work be reconciled? How can these professional practices be framed to reinforce the innovative and sustainable dimensions of hybrid work? These are the questions that Michel Ajzen, a specialist in organizational management, is tackling as part of his teaching assignments in the Department of Management Sciences at UNamur. His research focuses on hybrid work and organizational innovation, with a transdisciplinary approach aimed at reinventing managerial practices to meet contemporary challenges.

Michel Ajzen

In January 2024, Michel Ajzen joined UNamur's Department of Management Sciences as Professor of Organization and Innovation Management. In addition to his professorial role, he is also a member of the Creativity and Innovation Research Center (CIRCE) within the Namur Digital Insitute (NaDI), where he continues to explore the innovative and sustainable dimensions of hybrid work.

Michel Ajzen's research focuses primarily on organizational and managerial innovation, with a particular interest in hybrid work. His thesis, focusing on telecommuting during the crisis, provided the foundation for his current work on "sustainable hybrid work". He strives to understand the organizational, managerial and human stakes of temporal and spatial flexibility and technologies in work.

He examines the reconfiguration of work relationships in hybrid environments, the management of comfort differences with these new modalities, and the challenges of preserving the collective and commitment to work. He also explores the crucial role of proximity managers in this context, focusing on their sustainability and questions of well-being at work, inclusion and sustainability. His research highlights the risks of over-individualization of work and the ethical implications in terms of equity and collective solidarity. He advocates a contextual, trans-disciplinary approach to exploring sustainable solutions, in close collaboration with stakeholders in the field. Its aim is to develop critical thinking and innovative management practices in response to contemporary challenges in the world of work. It contributes to enriching the field of management through its in-depth reflections and significant contributions to understanding hybrid work and its impacts on organizations and their members.

His pre-UNamur career

Michel Ajzen began his academic career at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he obtained a master's degree in human resources management. He then continued his studies with a PhD in Management Sciences at Louvain. During his doctoral years, Michel was an assistant at the School of Labor Sciences in Leuven, which enabled him to gain solid pedagogical experience while conducting rigorous research.

After obtaining his PhD, Michel Ajzen was awarded a four-year contract as a post-doctoral fellow at Leuven. Alongside his post-doctoral work, he held the position of research manager of a chair in human management, demonstrating his ability to juggle academic, high-level research and team management roles. He was also a visiting lecturer at Louvain.

Further information

Découvrez le Département des sciences de gestion (recherche et formation).

UNamur researcher wins Best Research Paper Award at American Marketing Association conference - SERVSIG

Price
Publication

Floriane Goosse, a PhD student at the University of Namur, within the NaDI-CeRCLe research center, has received the prestigious "Best Research Paper Award" for her thesis paper conducted in collaboration with Wafa Hammedi, professor in the Department of Management at UNamur, and Dominik Mahr, from Maastricht University.

Réception du prix "Best paper Award"

Floriane Goosse's thesis explores how voice assistants (such as Alexa and Google Assistant) can improve the well-being of users in vulnerable situations, particularly visually impaired people. More concretely, her research aims in the first instance to understand how these technologies can impact the well-being of these users, and help them and their families on the path to resilience. Secondly, it seeks to personalize voice assistants to better meet the needs of these people. The aim is to adapt not only technical functionalities, but also more subtle aspects such as intonation and voice type. This personalization could play a therapeutic role, helping users - and their loved ones - to better accept and manage their disability. This study represents a major advance in understanding the role of technology and in promoting the inclusion and well-being of vulnerable groups in society.

The efforts of this research team have been crowned with success. In June 2024, this work won the prestigious "Best Research Paper Award" at the American Marketing Association's SERVSIG 2024 conference in Bordeaux. The originality and societal impact of the subject were particularly commended. The methodological approach of the work was also highlighted. Indeed, through fieldwork with associations helping the visually impaired, this research shows a potential to transform and impact lives.

Image
Floriane Goosse

I'd like to emphasize the links created with the associations we met, working together hand in hand. There's nothing more wonderful than talking to someone [met through the associations] and seeing that the results of our research have had an impact on their life

.
Floriane Goosse Doctoral student at UNamur

Wafa Hammedi emphasizes the importance of the societal impact of her PhD student's research and, more broadly, that carried out at UNamur's Centre de Recherche en Marketing et Management des Services, the NaDI-CeRCLe. "Our research aims to promote a more inclusive society and make this world a better place for all," adds Wafa Hammedi. "The potential lies in applying the results to change something in these people's world. It also questions the meaning of what an academic does. You have to have passion for research, and we're even more passionate when we know that what we produce will have meaning. "

The University of Namur stands out here for the societal impact of its research, transforming it into concrete solutions for a more inclusive society. Floriane Goosse and her co-authors have high ambitions for the future. Their work demonstrates that academic research can and must have a direct impact on society. International collaboration, particularly with renowned institutions at the cutting edge of technological advances such as Maastricht University, strengthens the relevance and innovation of research projects!

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Agenda

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  • 22

BENEVOL 2024 + IMPACT! day

Colloquium

BENEVOL 2024 + IMPACT! day

20
10:00 - 22
16:00
Université de Namur et TRAKK - Faculté des sciences - 5000 Namur
Contact person :  Devroey Xavier
Register for the event

The 23rd BENEVOL Workshop is an annual research seminar that provides a forum to meet and discuss new ideas, essential questions, and cutting-edge research in software engineering, maintenance, and evolution. This year, BENEVOL 2024 will be preceded by an IMPACT! day, which will include a training session on the Value Proposition Canvas for researchers and a World Café on the maintainability and evolution of software with industrial partners.

Visuel Impact Day

What?

  • BENEVOL on Thursday and Friday, November 21 and 22: the congress will bring together researchers working in software engineering, evolution, and maintenance. This year, we will have two keynotes: one by Prof. Andy Zaidman from TU Delft and one by Prof. Sonia Haiduc from Florida State University.
  • IMPACT! day on November 20: as a PhD student and/or researcher, you can join us to learn to communicate what you bring to the table efficiently thanks to the tried and tested Value Proposition canvas and exchange with practitioners, who will expose the challenges they encounter daily. The IMPACT! day initiative is supported by the GRASCOMP doctoral school, and participants will receive a certificate. As a software development professional, you can join us on Wednesday afternoon, November 20, as a guest from the corporate world to share your current challenges and connect with researchers working to advance software development and maintenance practices (please do not hesitate to contact us at snail.info@unamur.be if you would like to participate in the introductory panel of guests from the professional world and/or at the World Café).

When?

  • Wednesday 20 (IMPACT Day!)
  • Thursday 21 - Friday 22 November 2024 (BENEVOL Research Congress)

Organizers

Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Benoît Vanderose, Anthony Cleve, Babette Di Guardia, Amélie Notaro, Sophie Panarotto, Alix Decrop, Tom Mens

Where?

  • TRAKK, Namur creative hub (Journée IMPACT!)
  • S09, Faculty of Sciences, University of Namur, Belgium (BENEVOL Research Congress)
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Research

The Faculty's many research teams aim to produce research of excellence where quality takes precedence over quantity. By concentrating their research efforts in cutting-edge fields, they produce scientific research, open to interdisciplinary rapprochements, with a societal impact, on a national and international scale. The research carried out in the Faculty feeds its teaching and its capacity to innovate.

International

In addition to the internationalization of faculty life (courses and other activities, students, teachers), the Faculty offers Bachelor's and Master's level mobility opportunities in the form of "course" exchange programs (Erasmus Belgica, Erasmus + and non-European stays) as well as internships in companies and other organizations abroad!

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A word from the Dean

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Students are at the heart of our profession, they are our joy, our pride. By working together, openly, creatively and constructively, we'll make sure they shine, both at UNamur and beyond its walls.
Pietro Zidda
Dean of the Faculty Economics Management Communication Politics (EMCP)
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The Faculty in figures

1800
Students
15
Percentage of international students
4
Departments
250
Staff members
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Contacts and location

Faculty Economics Management Communication Politics (EMCP) welcomes you to the heart of the Namur campus.