Search results

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).

Increasingly sophisticated technologies are invading our spheres of activity without our prior consultation as citizens. Shouldn't the new digital tools, artificial intelligence or technologies resulting from progress in neuroscience, which are transforming our identity and social relationships, be the subject of broad and sufficiently informed democratic debates? This question is at the heart of the international "research-action" project "A new humanism in the age of neuroscience and artificial intelligence" in which UNamur is participating.

This is a technical and scientific feat that has just been patented at the UNamur. Researchers from the Laboratory of Analysis by Nuclear Reactions (LARN), the Department of Physics of UNamur (NISM Institute) and the spin-off Innovative Coating Solutions (ICS) have succeeded in developing a carbon-based coating with innovative properties that can be used in a wide range of fields, including fuel cells, decoration, and mechanical parts for automobiles.

Welcome to our new newsroom! From now on, you can find all the news about the University of Namur on your smartphone, your tablet or your computer!

It's a long-standing tradition in the faculties. Each year, a group of students organises a show honouring their most emblematic professors. Humour, second degree and caricature will be the order of the day, all in a benevolent manner.

Become a super student! Register now and start your journey on March 20, 2023. UNamur is offering a new session of this FREE MOOC (online course) to prepare you for higher education and perfect your study methods.

In a new study published in February 2023 in the Journal of Luminescence, an international group of scientists led by Sébastien Mouchet from UNamur, reported the previously unknown fluorescence properties of transparent insect wings. This research highlights the valuable information that can be obtained from advanced optical characterisation techniques.

Preparing the “Open Doors” day at the UNamur. To discover the campus and its training offer, future students are expected for a morning on April 1st. And this year two new features enrich the event: guided tours and a focus on the cultural offer at UNamur and Namur!

Writer, scriptwriter, and teacher at La Cambre and the Saint-Luc School of Arts, Thomas Gunzig never ceases to communicate his passion for the power of the imagination, his faith in fiction as a place of freedom. In his radio columns on La Première as well as in his novels (from “Mort d'un parfait bilingue”, Prix Rossel 2001, to “Sang des bêtes”, 2022), he infuses his pen with a dark, often cynical humour, but never completely devoid of playfulness. We met him on the occasion of his appearance at the Grandes Conférences Namuroises, on 21 February 2023 at the UNamur.