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The 9th Belgian inter-university final of the "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition took place on Friday June 2 in Louvain-la-Neuve.

On 9 June 2023, the NISM and naXys Institutes, the Physics and Chemistry Departments and the Namur Research College were delighted to welcome Prof. Jean-Luc Brédas from the University of Arizona. A prestigious speaker of international renown, Prof. Brédas completed his doctoral thesis with Prof. Jean-Marie André at the University of Namur.

The world is full of realities that are often invisible and ignored. Among them, Europe's shanty towns are a striking example of people's struggle to survive in inhuman conditions. This issue is at the heart of the fourth episode of the podcast "Le monde allant vers" (play on words, in French, meaning "the world going towards or the world backwards", entitled "Makeshift shelters". Where can you listen to it? On the FUCID website and on podcast platforms. And RUN is also due to broadcast it!

Very often in nature, we observe phenomena of natural synchronisation and the emergence of regular patterns: a crowd applauding in unison at the end of a concert, the cells in the walls of the heart pulsating in a coordinated fashion, black and white stripes on a zebra, brown spots surrounded by black in leopards... But how can we explain this uniformity if there is no global controller or explicit rule directing this coordination?

This is a first for UNamur: with encouraging results, it has been included in the prestigious Positive Impact Rating (PIR) ranking reserved for Business Schools worldwide! By being ranked in the third of the five PIR levels, UNamur is demonstrating its ability to meet societal challenges.

BepiColombo will fly past Mercury on 19 June 2023. It will pass close to the planet's surface at an altitude of approximately 236 km. BepiColombo is an ESA/JAXA mission involving a team of researchers from the University of Namur (naXys institute).

Noé, Méline and Romain are master’s students in management sciences and management engineering at UNamur. In spring 2023, they and five other students had the opportunity to spend a few days in Italy, at the Università Carlo Cattaneao near Milan. The exchange was organised as part of the Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) under the Erasmus + programme. Read their testimonials!

Over-indebtedness, addiction, homelessness, lack of access to rights, begging... Professionals in the health, education and social action sectors are directly confronted with social inequalities and precariousness. Their commitment requires them to work in an interdisciplinary way, to take a reflective look at their practices and to use relevant theoretical models. In response to this need, UNamur, HENALLUX, HEPN and UCLouvain, in collaboration with Formanam and Resinam, are organising a Certificate in Supporting Extreme Precariousness. A discussion with Christine Mahy, General Secretary of the Walloon Anti-Poverty Network (RWLP), was held to open up the debate on some of the key issues that will be addressed during this continuing education course.

On 20 June 2023, the F.R.S.-FNRS published the list of winners of the various doctoral and post-doctoral mandates. Among them, 16 researchers from UNamur obtained funding.

The European Euclid satellite will be launched into space from Cape Canaveral in the United States at 5.11pm on Saturday 1 July. The telescope is intended to provide a more accurate map of billions of galaxies over a distance of around twelve billion light years. A team of Belgian scientists and engineers from UCLouvain, ULB, ULg, UNamur and Ghent University, as well as the Space center in Liège (CSL), took part in this ten-year project, bringing together more than 3,500 people from 21 countries.

At 47, this pragmatic entrepreneur is taking on one of the key roles at the University of Namur (and it's a first for a woman!): General Administrator. Her role? Ensure sound financial and budgetary management, as well as the management of the University's movable and immovable assets. Valérie Daenen succeeds Gabriel Lombet for a renewable 6-year term. Interview.

A new page in the history of the University of Namur will be turned at the start of the 2023-2024 academic year with the creation of the Faculty of Educational and Training Sciences. It will host programmes relating to the Reform of Initial Teacher Education (RFIE) and will also fulfil research and social service missions.