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Jérémy Dodeigne, professeur de sciences politiques à la Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion de l'UNamur, et président de l’Institut de recherche Transitions vient de décrocher une prestigieuse ERC Starting Grant de près de 1,5 Millions d'euros pour son projet POLSTYLE.

Laura Rizzerio is Professor of Philosophy at UNamur. Part of her research focuses on the notion of the common good. This theme was at the heart of the reflections on the occasion of the annual Chair of the Notre-Dame de la Paix University Centre, continuing an approach already begun the previous year during a research seminar. Laura Rizzerio takes a closer look at this concept and reviews the exchanges that took place.

The call for proposals for the C2W Come to Wallonia | Connect with Wallonia project, supported by UMONS and UNamur, 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 has been awarded €4.5m of European funding (Marie Skłodowska Curie COFUND Action). The second call opens on 31st May 2023.

Bachelor 2 and 3 students in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures have taken on a rather unusual challenge: creating audio guides to London's main monuments and sites. An original and successful educational project, well worth a listen!

The Centre Hospitalier Régional Sambre et Meuse (CHRSM), the police and the Public Prosecutor's Office of the judicial district of Namur inaugurated the Center for the Support of Sexual Violence (Centre de Prise en Charge des Violences Sexuelles - CPVS) in the presence of Mrs Sarah Schlitz, Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity. The center opened its doors on April 27. As a partner of the CPVS, UNamur actively supports this service!

<p>The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking (THE Impact) published its rankings last week and, for the first time, the University of Namur is included! The ranking assesses the impact of universities in relation to the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and UNamur immediately scores well, if not very well! Overall, UNamur ranks in the top half of the 1,591 universities whose rankings have been accepted. On a criterion concerning contribution to the ODD "Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions", it is even ranked in the top 200.</p>

This week, UNamur is hosting an international conference organized as part of the "Philippine studies" project, which aims to strengthen exchanges between Filipino and European academics. Today, Anna Amalia B. Vibar, a Filipino master's student under the supervision of Prof. Sébastien Dujardin, talks to us about her research into the vulnerability of populations to climate change.

"In the south of the country, 32% of women more or less regularly encounter financial difficulties when buying their menstrual protection", reported the newspaper La Libre in 2022, figures from the non-profit organisation Synergie Wallonie. Many women face menstrual insecurity, and students are no exception. For several months now, the UNamur community has been actively involved in the fight against menstrual insecurity. Some actions have taken place on campus in recent weeks.

This week, UNamur is hosting an international conference organized as part of the "Philippine studies" project, which aims to strengthen exchanges between Filipino and European academics. Today, Dr. Kerby Alvarez tells us about his doctoral thesis on the history of earthquakes and the socio-cultural interpretation of disasters, completed at UNamur under the supervision of Prof. Isabelle Parmentier.

This week, UNamur is hosting an international conference organised as part of the "Philippine studies" project, which aims to strengthen exchanges between Filipino and European academics. The Philippine studies programme is funded by a grant from the Philippine government through the initiative of Senate President pro tempore Loren Legarda.

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.