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In the summer of 2022, Jeanne Nérac took up her duties as President of the General Assembly of UNamur Students (AGE). At 21, she is a bachelor student in pharmacy. This dynamic student, who has fallen in love with the Namur campus, wishes to place this new academic year under the sign of enthusiasm and collective work. Interview.

In the summer of 2022, we set out to discover the UNamur researchers who were awarded funding by the FNRS in 2022. Today, it is Laurent Houssiau, who has been awarded a bilateral collaborative research project funded by the FNRS and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ). His project focuses on the design and development of new multifunctional thin overlays that aim to improve the clinical performance of dental implants.

In the summer of 2022, we set out to discover the qualified researchers of UNamur, winners of the funding granted by the FNRS in 2022. Today, we meet Alison Forrester, currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut Curie (Paris) who will join UNamur in September for her new mandate as a FNRS Qualified Researcher within the NARILIS Institute. Her research focuses on the study of compounds that could modify the efficiency of the protein production process and thus envisage new therapeutic approaches.

Gnoari Tankoano and Mathieu Traore, PhD students from Bukina Faso, have just spent three months at the Faculty of Law of UNamur. Earlier, Professor René Robaye from Namur went to Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, for a short academic stay. These exchanges were made possible thanks to the Erasmus + International Credit Mobility programme and the UNamur International Relations Department. Here is a look back at this enriching experience, both on an academic and human level.

U-Multirank is a world ranking of universities. It has the particularity of ranking universities according to the type of institution, on the basis of 35 indicators. Each indicator is given a score ranging from 'A' (very good) to 'E' (poor). The ranking covers 2,200 universities in 96 countries.

To restore an old book correctly, it is essential to know the secrets of its manufacture and the reasons for its deterioration. Thanks to the King Baudouin Foundation's Jean-Jacques Comhaire Fund, the restoration workshop of the Moretus Plantin University Library has launched a new research project on parchment bindings in the Southern Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries. The aim is to gain a better understanding in order to improve conservation.

The ERC CoG, a funding instrument of the European Research Council (ERC), enables outstanding scientists to implement innovative concepts over a period of five years and thus strengthens the European research landscape. The B-YOND project will focus on the reprogramming of chemical elements properties in order to initiate the creation of a new generation of more robust and accessible catalysts.

Thanks to the BEWARE Fellowships programme, the University of Namur will welcome two new post-doctoral students. Within the research institutes naXys and NaDI and in collaboration with the companies CISEO and SAVICS, they will contribute to the development of two projects. The first aims to design an intelligent robot for the pharmaceutical industry, and the second, a secure system for sharing decentralized data.

In October 2021, the University of Namur signed International Research Partnership (IRP) agreements with the University of Lorraine for the period 2021-2025. This official act around a common research project gives a concrete form to the collaborations which have been lasting for more than 15 years between the two involved research units.

Researchers at the UNamur have just filed a patent for a completely innovative coating, in collaboration with the spin-off Innovative Coating Solutions (ICS). This project was supported by the Win²Wal programme of SPW Research.

Do you know Hector Lebrun? This brilliant yet little-known 19th century scientist lends his first name to an original and interdisciplinary project at UNamur: a podcast that questions science, scientific practices and positions. On the menu: 4 episodes on various themes such as the place of women in research, the interest of animal experimentation, the role of academics in society and the validity of the theory of evolution. In addition to the podcasts, round tables and a virtual exhibition will also be organised. A book will also be produced.

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