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At the University of Namur, master's students in management engineering have the opportunity to follow an immersion course, taking part in three in-company internships. This is the path followed by Lhorie Pirnay. During her internships, she worked on improving "Hybrid Strategy Maps", a tool designed to help companies optimize their decisions. Backed by a network of influential sponsors, the former student, now a doctoral student, has just obtained the invaluable support of Win4SpinOff funding to develop her project. A first step towards the creation of a spin-off. Read on.

She's 18, studying for a BAC 1 in the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management, and is at the heart of a reality TV show following her family's life in Flanders. The show is called Château Planckaert, named after her grandfather Eddy Planckaert, a famous racing cyclist. Meet Iluna Timmerman, a serious, humble and reserved student.

In 2023, UNamur opened a fourth CaNDLE call funded through the joint support of the Fonds Jérôme pour le développement durable and the Assemblée des Cercles of UNamur students. Discover one of the 7 selected projects.

Find out what Aurelien Clement, a master's student in management sciences at the University of Namur, has to say about his Erasmus stay at the University of Laval in Canada.

The University of Namur posts encouraging results in the prestigious Positive Impact Rating (PIR), holding its own in the "Progressing" category for the second year running. With an improved score of 7.0/10, UNamur once again demonstrates its commitment to societal challenges and its pioneering role in responsible education.

The F.R.S.-FNRS published on June 25, 2024, the list of winners of the various doctoral and postdoctoral mandates. Among them, 16 researchers from the University of Namur have obtained funding.

September 1961. A few professors and about fifteen students are entering the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management at UNamur for the very first time. It was 60 years ago, in the house of Marmol, Rampart of the Virgin. Today, the classrooms are no longer the same, the professors have succeeded one another, the course programs have continued to evolve... but it is always with the same passion that the faculty supports its students.

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.

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”.

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 17 April 2023, UNamur will host two prestigious international Francqui Chairs. Professor Timoteo Carletti (Department of Mathematics - naXys Institute) will host Professor Ginestra Bianconi, one of the leading experts on networks and high-order structures. Professor Romain Houssa (Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management - DeFiPP Institute) will welcome Professor Karel Mertens, an expert in macroeconomics.

Karel Mertens is a renowned researcher who has done outstanding work in the field of macroeconomics. He is staying in Belgium for three months to take part in the activities of the International Francqui Chair organized by the Department of Economics of the UNamur, in collaboration with KU Leuven, UAntwerp, Ghent University, UCLouvain, and the National Bank of Belgium. Interview.