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English versionIn the context of an international Chaire Francqui 2024-2025, the Faculty of Computer Science (UNamur) has the honor to receive Professor Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Netherlands ) from the 24th to the 27st of March, for a series of lectures on the theme of: “ Explainable Software Engineering ”.The inaugural lecture, entitled “Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector”, will be held on the 25th of March 2025, at 6pm at PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur).French versionAs part of an international Francqui Chair 2024-2025, the Faculty of Computer Science (UNamur) will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Netherlands) from March 24 to 27, 2025, for a series of lessons on the theme: "Explainable Software Engineering".The inaugural lesson, entitled "Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector", will take place on Tuesday March 25, 2025 at 6:00 pm at PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 - Namur). Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector The field of software engineering seeks to devise theories, methods, tools, and techniques that support the development, operation, and evolution of the digital infrastructure modern society relies on. While the software engineering capabilities have advanced substantially over the past decades, it remains challenging to deliver high quality systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. Government system in particular have a weak reputation in this respect.To better understand why, we analyze 125 complex software projects in the public sector in The Netherlands. The projects are described in public reports published by the Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), which advises the Dutch parliament and cabinet on riks and chances of success in complex Information Technology (IT) projects. The projects span a time period of 10 years, represent a total budget of over 14 billion Euros, and cover such areas as tax collection, social security, pensions, health, traffic control, defense, or water management.We study these reports through the lens of "explainability", focusing on supporting decision making. Furthermore, we reflect on current advances in software engineering, including modern software testing and large language models, in addressing current software engineering challenges. Program INAUGURAL LECTURE: Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector - Tuesday 25/03 - 18:00-19:00 - PA02 SESSION 1: Architectural decision making in software engineering - Monday 24/03 - 10:30-12:30 - I33SESSION 2 : Tests as executable explanations - Tuesday 25/03 - 14:00-16:00 - I33SESSION 3: Technical debt, test smells, legacy systems - Wednesday 26/03 - 14:00-16:00 - I33SESSION 4: Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - Thursday 27/03 - 10:30-12:30 - I33 About the speaker Arie van Deursen is a professor at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Software Engineering Research Group. His research interests include software testing, language models for code, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and human aspects of software engineering. He presently serves as chair of the Steering Commmittee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).He is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ING Bank The Netherlands. In 2023, he was elected fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). Read more Register for the event

Several sessions are scheduled: November 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 5pm to 7pm. Sign up

Several sessions are scheduled: November 5, 12, 19 and 26 from5pm to 7pm. Sign up

Several sessions are scheduled: November 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 5pm to 7pm. Sign up

Several sessions are scheduled: November 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 5pm to 7pm. Sign up

Informatics is one of the pillars of our society. The Faculty of Computer Science therefore has a particular duty to provide services to society.Concretely, these services materialize in particular through the creation of synergies between researchers and industry, through involvement in a partnership with the Government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, and through the provision of knowledge and know-how.

The University of Namur created the e-Government Chair in order to offer, mainly to the public sector, independent expertise concerning digital governance. The Chair ensures a technological and scientific watch in the various aspects of digital governance (technical, legal, managerial and strategic) and pursues consultancy, training and scientific research missions.

The Digital Education Chair aims to support research related to the issues of digitizing our society and educating citizens and workers in digital media and technologies. As a grouping of interdisciplinary expertise in the field of digital education, it enables innovative and complex approaches to these issues. The Chair is in line with UNamur's strategic development axes and supports a network of collaborations between its members and between disciplines.

Members mainly come from two research institutes within the University of Namur:the Namur Digital Institute (NaDI) whose research is devoted to the various issues of digital technologies, in their technical, societal, educational, ethical, media, regulatory and management aspects;the Institut de Recherche en Didactiques et Éducation de l'Université de Namur (IRDENa) whose mission is to foster the emergence of new research objects and methodologies in the field of education, stemming from a variety of disciplinary anchors.The twenty or so members, academics and researchers, active within the Chair currently fall into seven disciplinary fields: computer science, computer didactics, media and digital literacy, information literacy, educational science, science and technology studies and gender studies. In order to enrich the issues addressed, the Chair will of course be open to all researchers and academics interested in the theme of digital education within the university. Co-chairing the Chair Anne-Sophie Collard, Professor Guillaume Mele, Technopedagogue Composition of the Chair Fanny BarnabéFanny BoraitaKathleen De GroveCarole DelforgeSara Dethise MartinezXavier DevroeyBruno DumasBenoît FrénayEsther HaineauxJulie HenryAlyson HernalsteenBenoît VanderoseCharlotte SineCamille TilleulThe members of the Chair have already developed several research projects and activities related to digital education. One of the recent projects is by Guillaume Mele and Charlotte Sine: "MOOC: aim for success, become a super student!"Funding: UNAMURBased on 20 years' experience of methodological support for students, this project aims to develop personalized, automated online courses on FUN-MOOC, a platform designed primarily to transmit content. The success of the MOOC testifies to the researchers' experience in implementing online courses and creating complex pedagogical architectures.Duration: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2024

Projects and support SETT supportSince 2019, the salon SETT "School, Education, Transformation, Technology" has welcomed Belgian and international experts to train teachers and nurture their reflections on issues surrounding digital in education. It is the largest French-speaking Belgian fair on this theme, bringing together teachers from all levels of education and all disciplines.The University of Namur participates in the fair's scientific committee, selecting quality speakers and contributing with its most cutting-edge research.Find here the members of the Chair who participate in the SETT scientific committeeThe PRE-SETT 2025 workshopBreaking the code(s): Beyond injunctions and paradoxes on digital in educationPre-SETT date: January 22, 2025Since 2019, the SETT trade show - "School, Education, Transformation, Technology" has welcomed Belgian and international experts to train teachers and nurture their thoughts on issues surrounding digital in education. It is the largest French-language event of its kind in Belgium, bringing together teachers from all levels of education and all disciplines. The University of Namur participates in the show's scientific committee, selecting top-quality speakers and contributing its own research to the themes addressed.To strengthen this link between research and the field of education, the University of Namur's Chaire Educ0Num has also been organizing an annual scientific event since 2024, taking place the day before the show: the Pré-SETT. This takes the form of a study day and brings together researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to collectively advance scientific questioning, the results of which are then communicated more widely at the show.This year, the Pré-SETT study day will focus on the theme: "Breaking the code(s): Beyond injunctions and paradoxes on digital in education".Would you like to take part? Find the call for papers below. Call for papers The activity book for technical and critical digital educationThe site lists digital education activities linked to the "Formation Manuelle, Technique, Technologique et le Numérique" (FMTTN) repository, built as part of the "Pacte pour un enseignement d'Excellence" education reform.School-ITThe School-IT project aims to develop an original "digital kit" for teachers wishing to try their hand at teaching IT in nursery, primary and secondary education. This kit is organized around "turnkey" activities, short in duration and mostly independent of each other, which teachers can easily set up within their classrooms.Learn more... Production of educational activities Activities and teaching sequences created as part of the School-IT project - changing the vision of computing:"Digital education" - introductory sequence to the operation of the computer"Discovering a tangible system" - activities to educate about the operation of the computer, its peripherals and programming education"Emotion synthesis" - artificial intelligence education activity"Programming concepts" - introductory programming sequence"Smart-city" - activities to discover the concept of "Smart-city""Concurrent programming" - concurrent programming education activity"Programming concepts" - introductory programming sequence"Smart-city" - activities to discover the concept of "Smart-city""Concurrent programming" - programming education activity concurrent programming education activity"Robot programming" - introductory sequence to computers and programming"In the skin of an algorithm" - recommendation algorithm education activityActivities created as part of the Pacte Excellence Numérique project:"Who is it? " - artificial intelligence education"Playing with Playmobil to learn about cybersecurity" - cybersecurity education"De Avonturen von Hergé" - Treasure hunt in the Hergé museum - Digital education for language learningActivities created as part of the various PUNCH calls:Call 2019: CodEmplify - Benoit FrenayCall 2019: Gestural interaction - from concepts to longitudinal implementation - Bruno DumasCall 2017: Micro:Punch - Benoit Frénay, Julie HenryCall 2013: Opening to the world - Anne-Sophie Collard (et al.)MOOC: Aim for success, become a super studentPALEF: Online French language learning platform for jobseekersREMEDIATIC: Remedial platform in math and French language for students aged 9 to 14 Image EduCoNum Chair See content

The Faculty of Computer Science, via its teachers and researchers, is very active internationally: internationally recognized research groups, organization of research seminars to which scientists from other universities are invited in order to promote new research horizons, mobility of our researchers which starts right from the start of their thesis when they travel abroad to take part in international congresses.

Each year, UNamur's Faculty of Computer Science awards the Prix Jean Fichefet for the best master's thesis in computer science. From the 2022-2023 year, there will be two awards, which are entitled: Best Thesis Award (General Impact) and (Societal Impact).