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Measuring poverty and well-being, to better understand development inequalities between countries and better assess development policies. This is the theme on which Benoit Decerf, assistant professor in the Department of Economics and researcher at UNamur's Development Economics Research Center, is working. He has been involved in improving the poverty indicators used by the World Bank.

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.

The ISALA NOVA project, initiated by UMONS and UNamur and supported by the Sakura Fund of the Foundation for Future Generations, aims to sustainably transform universities in terms of gender equality.

On July 1, 2025, the F.R.S.-FNRS published the list of winners of the various doctoral and postdoctoral mandates, Télévie projects and co-financing with the Fonds de recherche du Québec. Among these, many UNamur researchers were awarded funding. UNamur's particularly high ranking rate demonstrates the quality and excellence of research on the Namur campus.

Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common primary liver cancer. Unfortunately, this tumor still has a high mortality rate due to the lack of effective treatments for its most advanced or poorly localized forms. As part of a partnership with the CHU UCL Namur - site de Godinne and with the support of Roche Belgium, researchers in the Department of Biomedical Sciences are trying to understand why liver tumor cells are so resistant to treatment, and to identify therapeutic alternatives to better target them.

This is great recognition for the excellence of the research carried out at the University of Namur: the Faculty of Informatics has been asked to join the prestigious Informatics Europe network, which brings together the most dynamic departments and faculties of Informatics across Europe.

This summer's third and final focus on the NaDI-CeRCLe research center, which has gained international recognition in recent weeks thanks to awards won by three young researchers in service management. Following on from Floriane Goosse and Victor Sluÿters, we invite you to discover the work of Florence Nizette, a young researcher working on Artificial Intelligence technologies.

At the University of Namur, student success is at the heart of everything we do. Professors, assistants and staff members are committed every day to offering much more than quality teaching: comprehensive support, designed to sustain each pathway.As the start of the university year approaches, a brief overview of these levers which, from day one, help students to move forward with confidence and support them in every dimension of their pathway.

Last June, the UNamur Board of Directors officially announced the creation of the Observatoire des Littératures Sauvages (OLSa). Founded in 2022 under the leadership of Denis Saint-Amand, FNRS qualified researcher in the Department of French and Romance Languages and Literatures, this research center studies how literature is constructed outside of books and literary institutions, through alternative objects or channels.

For many years now, students at the University of Namur's Master of Specialization in Digital Law have been offering high-quality, free legal support to young start-ups active in the digital sector.

The first global conference of Chinese materials researchers took place from July 22 to 28, 2025, at the University of Namur. Organized by Professor Bao-Lian Su, director of the Inorganic Materials Chemistry Laboratory (CMI) of the Nanomaterials Chemistry Unit (UCNano) in the Chemistry Department at the University of Namur, Belgium, in collaboration with Professor Qing-Jie Zhang of Wuhan University of Technology (China) and Professor Max Gao-Qing Lu of the University of Wollongong (Australia), the event brought together nearly 500 participants.