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Omalius is the magazine of the University of Namur. A quarterly that highlights UNamur's research, its experts, educational innovations and topical issues. Discover the July 2025 issue.

Since 2003, the University of Namur has been testing the basic knowledge and skills of its new students during their first weeks in higher education by means of tests called "Passports for the Bac". In September 2021, 1,470 UNamur students took one or more of these prerequisite tests. Two observations emerge: on the one hand, there has persisted for several years a significant disparity in profiles at the entrance to higher education, and on the other hand, the reconfiguration of secondary education in the context of a pandemic seems to have had a negative impact on the level of mastery of several prerequisites among new students.

Two researchers from the Department of Pharmacy initiated the project: Romain Siriez and Constant Gillot. Under the supervision of Professor Jean-Michel Dogné, they imagined creating a real pharmacy, which would be the ideal place to practice innovative pedagogy, essential for the training of master's students during specialized pharmacotherapy.

François Briard graduated in Law and Management of Information Technology (DGTIC) in 1994 after obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science in 1993. He works at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. During his schooling, which was 100% at UNamur, he was vice-president of the Namur Region and student delegate during his application years in economic and social sciences, computer science option. Thanks to the multidisciplinary training provided at UNamur, he was able to seize several opportunities to reorient his career within CERN.

Katrien Beuls is undoubtedly a fine example of the growing number of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers. After a rather literary career, guided by her curiosity, she began studying computer science and became interested in computational methods for processing human language with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Which virus? SARS-CoV-2, of course. By doing his job as a chemist, Stéphane Vincent has already succeeded in making life difficult for it. And perhaps soon a preventive tool based on his research will reduce the risk of infection.

The C2W call for projects offers experienced researchers an exceptional opportunity to develop new skills and competences by implementing a research project of excellence with a strong interdisciplinary orientation. The project benefits from a European funding of €4.5M (Marie Skłodowska Curie COFUND action).