On this page, you'll find a report on all the actions and activities initiated at the University of Namur in connection with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #16: "Peace, justice and effective institutions".

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One example among many: 2 prestigious ERC Starting Grants for 2 researchers from UNamur and Institut Transitions!

It's not often that two researchers from the same institution (and the same institute!) are awarded such prestigious funding.....

These ERC Starting Grants for Jérémy Dodeigne's POLYSTYLE project and Vincent Jacquet's CITIZEN_IMPACT project will thus enable the emergence and development of a genuine pole of excellence in Political Science within UNamur's Transitions Institute.

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Teaching

The Namur Legal Lab

As part of its Master's degree specializing in Information and Communication Technology Law (Master DTIC), the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur has set up a new teaching project called "Namur Legal Lab".
Objectives:

  • Create a meeting point between students and young entrepreneurs.
  • Sensitize students to the economic realities and demands of the professional world.
  • Enable start-ups to structure themselves better.
  • Provide a free service for handling legal issues.

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Social impact and actions

Institutional initiatives

Founding texts and charters

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Reports and other working documents

  • Integrating environmental clauses into our public procurement
  • Financial reporting
  • Training for decision-makers

Calls for projects for the Univers 2025 strategic plan

A participatory approach

The University of Namur's "Univers 2025" strategic plan aims to define a vision for the future, to be translated into actions and commitments, and to meet numerous expectations both internally and vis-à-vis multiple external stakeholders.

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Calls for Campus Namur Durable (CaNDLE)

A participatory approach

Since 2013, the Campus Namur Durable (CaNDLE) calls have aimed to invite the University Community to propose actions whose objective is to make the campus and university activity more sustainable in the short, medium and long term.

The first and second CaNDLE calls contributed, in 2013 and 2015, to the realization of eight projects likely to improve the sustainability of the campus or university activity. The 2021 call saw the launch of five new eco-responsible initiatives proposed by UNamur members and funded by the Jerome Fund for Sustainable Development.

In 2023, UNamur opens a fourth CaNDLE call funded through the joint support of the Jerome Fund for Sustainable Development and the Assembly of Circles of UNamur students.

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The General Assembly of Students

UNamur recognizes the General Assembly of Students.e.s (AGE), which ensures student representation within the Institution.

The AGE's missions:

  • Assuring student representation via the Student Council
  • Managing campus animation via the Animation Council
  • All coordinated by the AGE Bureau.

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Collaborations and partnerships

The Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Wallonia (CESE)

UNamur is represented in various CESE Poles, as are the other 5 FWB universities.

Science Policy Pole

The Science Policy Pole is an advisory body tasked with issuing opinions on science, research and innovation policy at the request of the Walloon Government or on its own initiative. It deals with issues concerning science policy, research and innovation in the Walloon Region, at the initiative of the Walloon Government.

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Housing Cluster

The Housing Cluster is an advisory body tasked with issuing opinions, making observations, suggestions, proposals or recommendations on housing matters at the request of the Walloon Government or on its own initiative.

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Namur Innovative City Lab - SmartCity

The University of Namur has joined forces with the City of Namur and the Province's Bureau Economique (BEP) to create, along with other partners, the "Namur Innovative City Lab". This portfolio of 11 projects aims to position the Walloon capital as a "smart city" and is part of the ERDF 2014-2020 call for projects. Alongside its participation in the "Namur Innovative City Lab" projects, the University of Namur is helping to make Namur a "Smart City", thanks to its research centers, training courses and services in the fields of ICT and Innovation.

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Get Up Wallonia!

The Get up Wallonia! dynamic was born out of the emergencies linked to the Covid-19 crisis and aims to prepare the future of the Region and its citizens.

After a citizen consultation in November 2020 and the work of Task Forces made up of experts in the field, institutional players and social partners, the Strategic Council submitted its report broken down into 51 actions and 18 measures. Our Rector, Annick Castiaux, is a member of this Strategic Council. Find out more...

Namur Europe Wallonie (NEW)

Namur Europe Wallonie (NEW) is an association of which UNamur is a member, whose aim is to develop a territorial and institutional marketing policy aimed at promoting Namur as the Capital of a creative, collaborative, innovative and sustainable region, and in this context to include it in appropriate international networks where necessary. Read more...

Namur tomorrow festival

UNamur is taking part in this event organized by the City of Namur.

The aim of this event? To raise awareness, prepare and accelerate our resilience in the face of a rapidly changing world. To achieve this, over 60 varied and free activities will focus on ecological, social and environmental transition. Find out more? Editions 2022 and 2023.

Fair Trade Towns

UNamur is taking part in Fair Trade Week as the town has been awarded the honorary title of Fair Trade Town. L'Arsenal has adapted its menu for the occasion. More info here...

Research institutes

Development Finance & Public Policies (DeFiPP)

Within DeFiPP, the Centre de Recherches en Économie Régionale et Politique Économique (CERPE) articulates its research around two poles: regional economics and economic policy. In line with the Center's missions, research combines theoretical work (in geographical economics, labor economics, regional policy, etc.) and more applied work in regional economics and economic policy, with a particular focus on the Walloon Region in the Belgian institutional landscape.

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Espace philosophique de Namur (ESPHIN)

A transdisciplinary space open to the outside world and designed to encourage original research, ESPHIN addresses themes developed in its two founding departments: that of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and that of Sciences-Philosophies-Society in the Faculty of Science. In synergy with other entities, researchers also aim for the emergence of new themes in the major fields of philosophy, such as anthropology, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic and metaphysics.

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Namur Digital Institute (NaDI)

Within the NaDI Institute, the Center for Research on Information, Law and Society (CRIDS) focuses on a wide range of topics related to the information society, such as electronic communications, privacy, intellectual property, e-commerce, e-government, e-health, megadata, cybersecurity. These include electronic communications, privacy, intellectual property, e-commerce, e-government, e-health, megadata, cybersecurity, the sharing economy, e-journalism, digital literacy, algorithmic governance and network sociology.

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Transitions

The TRANSITIONS Institute aims to explore the different ways in which human nature and society undergo the processes, periods and impacts of transitions, with an emphasis on critically important areas such as the environment, economy, development, mobility, politics, education, justice and social cohesion. Thanks to these strengths, TRANSITIONS fosters interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary collaborative research around themes rather than disciplines. In this respect, the Institute's aim is to develop innovative capabilities and strategies that enable us to creatively facilitate and cope with the transitions that lie ahead, and to pursue our collective interests and well-being in a sustainable manner.

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Vulnerabilities and societies

The "Vulnerabilities and Societies" research center (abbreviated "V&S") at the University of Namur is a university research center that takes an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between vulnerability(ies) and society(ies). It is the result of the merger of the Droits fondamentaux & Lien social center (formerly Droit et sécurité d'existence) and the Projucit center (Protection juridique des citoyens), which decided to join forces to reflect on the fragilities observed in our societies.

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Chaire e-Gouvernement

The University of Namur has created the Chaire e-Gouvernement to offer, primarily 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.

Chaire Notre-Dame de la Paix

Conference cycle 2022-2023 | Communs et bien(s) commun(s): une articulation pour un nouveau modèle de société?

Conference 2023-2024 | 60 years of pacem in terris: is there still a place for peace today?

Awareness-raising activities

Conferences: How can we build lasting peace? Some avenues for reflection and action

These three lectures, inspired by the reflection and experience of a diplomat who is also a philosopher, will aim to ask the following question: can the hope of perpetual peace, which has inspired more than one philosopher or diplomat, find its way into our history?

These lectures dealt in depth with the conditions of possibility for building a lasting peace in these times of renewed international tension. They were each followed by a time for debate with the audience (2022).

In the press

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