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Carried out in collaboration with the NADI research institute of the University of Namur, the Pôle Académique de Namur, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the Royal Association of Engineers of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech ULg and 200 associations internationally (117 countries), the sixth edition of the Gender Scan survey measures the evolution of feminisation in the technology and digital sector. The survey was conducted for the first time in Belgium among female students (higher education) to measure the level of satisfaction of female students in these fields.

Studying when you have a disability, whether physical, mental, intellectual or sensory, is a real challenge on a daily basis. So is higher education impossible? No, especially if you have the right support! UNamur's Medical and Psychological Unit offers a range of services to help overcome this problem. Information, needs analysis, course planning, awareness-raising and training are all steps towards success.

A pterosaur from Brazil that preserved melanosomes in its feathers provides insight into the function of primitive feathers. An international team of palaeontologists and geologists, including UNamur (Dr Aude Cincotta and Prof. Johan Yans), has demonstrated that pterosaurs, the flying cousins of dinosaurs, had feathers and were able to control their colour.

At the beginning of the academic year 2023, the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management will change its dean. Pietro Zidda will succeed Alain de Crombrugghe. This is an opportunity for this professor of marketing and management to talk about the projects and priorities of his next mandate. Interview.

From 11 to 13 May 2022, a hundred or so scientists and actors from the economic and cultural world gathered at UNamur to discuss the issue of water pollution. The aim? To share and enrich knowledge, but also to alert and inform about its long-term effects on fauna, flora and human beings. Scientific sessions, workshops and a conference for the public were on the programme for these three days.

From the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, public events and institutional communications will be translated into sign languages. This initiative is made possible thanks to the ASBL Preduna, which supports UNamur in the inclusion of its staff and students.

Language learning is essential nowadays. In a professional context, mastery of one or more languages is a serious asset on a CV. This is why the language courses organised by the Department of modern languages (ELV) at UNamur aim to prepare students for the world of work. Explanations.

Jeanne Nérac, president of the AGE and a pharmacy student, and Thibault Lesage, a computer science student, are embarking on a sporting and humanitarian raid in Juliette, their yellow 4L. From 16 to 26 February 2023, they will travel through the roads of Spain and the desert of Morocco to reach Marrakech.

At the beginning of each academic year, the Board of Trustees grants Namur Research College (NARC) Fellowship status to researchers who demonstrate a high level of research achievement and who have recently received a prestigious award or funding. A look back at the fellowship of Professor Frederik De Laender.

The 3rd Global Uniservitate Symposium was held in Rome on 27 and 28 October 2022, under the theme "Service Learning and the Global Compact on Education: Educating for Fraternity in Higher Education". More than 30 Catholic institutions from 26 countries in 5 continents participated in this event, which aimed to promote integral formation and to actively involve the new generations in the problems of our time.

The Department of Art History and Archaeology of UNamur is participating for the first time in an experimental archaeology project, within the framework of a doctoral thesis on the production of glass in the Roman period. Conducted in partnership with Malagne, the Rochefort archaeopark, the Specularia project aims to gain a better understanding of the reality of the gestures and techniques of Gallo-Roman craftsmen and to scientifically validate hypotheses that are still debated today. To carry out this experiment, the Department of Art History and Archaeology is launching its first participatory funding.

Networks are fundamental to the modelling of complex systems, systems composed of an incredibly large number of interacting parts. Applications are numerous, in neuroscience, epidemiology, but also in computer science and engineering. A collaboration between the University of Catania (Italy) and the University of Namur, led by Professor Timoteo Carletti of the Department of Mathematics (naXys Institute), has developed a new formalism that allows the modelling of systems where several parts interact at the same time (multi-body) and in an asymmetric way. This research has been published in the prestigious journal Communication Physics, part of the Nature group.