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The FNRS has awarded the five-year Ernest-John Solvay Prize in the Social Sciences to Jean-Marie Baland, Professor in the Department of Economics at UNamur's EMCP Faculty and co-founder of the DeFiPP Institute's Centre de Recherche en Economie du Développement (CRED). A major accolade for a career devoted to the study of poverty, informal institutions and sustainable development.

Are we prisoners of our genetic heritage? Can filiation be reduced to genes alone? Can we escape our destiny? Existential questions we all ask ourselves, and to which Gaëlle Pontarotti, lecturer and researcher in the Department of Sciences, Philosophies and Societies at UNamur, sheds new light in her book Par-delà les gènes. Une autre histoire de l'hérédité, published last October by Gallimard.

What will UNamur look like in 2029? What challenges will it face? What are its objectives? What resources will it need to achieve them? These are the questions that "Univers 2029", the new strategic plan drawn up by Rector Annick Castiaux and the Rector's Council, aims to answer. It is in line with the directions taken during the previous mandate (2021-2025) of Annick Castiaux and the rectoral team. Development, sustainability, quality of life, internationalization, and intelligent digitalization will remain the five priority objectives pursued by UNamur over the next four years.