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Appointed in January 2022 for a four-year term, Guido Jardon is one of the three new external administrators of the University of Namur. As Director General of the Royal Institute for Music and Pedagogy (IMEP) for the past twenty years, he knows Namur's higher education system well. Passionate and fascinating, this renowned pianist is not stingy with superlatives. He takes a benevolent look at the links forged between these two institutions, which in theory are very different. Interview.

Throughout the year, come and attend our "Grandes Conférences Namuroises". A programme of six conferences accessible to all, on a variety of topical subjects.

This report provides a global audience with the most recent and accurate estimates of trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The report draws extensively on the multidimensional poverty research of a group of researchers at the DEFIPP Institute at UNamur.

What is a perfect fluid? It is a theoretical model of a fluid that allows us to assume that the fluid is not viscous, that it does not conduct heat, that it is incompressible and does not create vortices. It is therefore an approximation of reality that simplifies theoretical predictions of fluid flows. For the first time, an international team has experimentally demonstrated this same behaviour for light immersed in a medium of low refractive index.

As the largest and heaviest organ in the human body, the skin is the focus of Professor Yves Poumay's research. For nearly 30 years, within the Cells and Tissues laboratory (LabCeTi), he has been developing in vitro epidermal models that reproduce skin pathologies to better understand and treat them. A pioneering approach that offers alternatives to animal experimentation! On the eve of an international congress devoted to dermatology research organised at UNamur (see below), he talks about the importance of melanoma screening and details the latest advances in dermatology made in his laboratory.

Appointed last January for a 4-year term, this senior honorary magistrate is joining the higher education sector. An environment he knows well. To the point of perfectly appropriating the objectives of the new Strategic Plan, “Universe 2025”. Interview.

The Réseau international francophone de recherche en éducation et formation (REF), founded in 1989, brings together every two years in one of the four founding countries (France, Belgium, Quebec, Switzerland) researchers in education sciences and didactics. The meetings are usually held over two days and take the form of parallel symposia on different educational research themes, linked by a common thread. They took place at UNamur last July. A look back at a successful edition.

Since the pandemic, this cry of alarm from the Nobel Prize in Economics, Jean Tirole, seems more relevant than ever. On 19 and 20 May 2022, the second Summit of the Common Good, organised in Toulouse, mobilised hundreds of thousands of internet users. On 24 May 2022, in Brussels, the Night of the Common Good raised over half a million euros in donations. And next year, the Our Lady of Peace Chair at UNamur will be dedicated to the common good. But what is this 'common good' that belongs to everyone and to no one? Four researchers from UNamur share their thoughts with us to stimulate our own.

The two UNamur professors were appointed for a four-year term. The academic members of the Central Economic Council (CEC) are chosen in order to inform the debates of the social partners (employers and trade unions) present at the council with their expertise.

An international team of researchers, including Prof Frederik De Laender, from the University of Namur, publish in Nature Communications. The editor highlights that the authors use theoretical models and field data to show how eco-evolutionary processes can force species to develop more similar characteristic traits in more species-rich communities to avoid competition. Which goes against what we intuitively perceive.

How to recruit new young talents? This challenge is that of many companies, but it is now also that of the students of the master in management sciences of the Faculty of economics, social sciences and management of UNamur. IBM, an international company at the forefront of technological development, comes to ask them to find a solution to the problem of the “war for talents”.

In the course of 2021, 42% of Belgian companies suffered a cyber attack. Those targeting citizens are no less numerous: more than 4.5 million suspicious messages have been sent to Safeonweb, the government body responsible for informing Belgian citizens about computer security. More than ever, at a time when the geopolitical context reinforces the threat of a cyberwar, how can we cope? Jean-Noël Colin, cybersecurity expert, professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of UNamur and member of the NaDI Institute, gives us an explanation.