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Whether you're a Master's student, in the midst of your doctoral career or have just successfully completed your thesis, here you'll find the information you need to build your career.
Master
You've made your choice of studies and would like information on admission requirements, enrolment procedures and minerval, administrative procedures or life in Namur?
The doctoral path
Doctoral training (180 credits) brings together the best specialists from all French-speaking Belgian universities. Research work leads to the preparation and writing of your doctoral thesis, in close collaboration with your sponsor(s), as part of a research team and in contact with the international scientific community.
Two doctoral guidance commissions (CDO) are responsible for validating the various stages of the doctoral student's curriculum in compliance with the university's doctoral regulations.
Registration procedures
For information on registration procedures, visit the Registration Department pages.
The stages of the doctoral curriculum
A table is available - internal document (ADEN) for download on TerraNostra (intranet).
It sets out:
- the stages of the doctoral curriculum: admission, registration, confirmation stage, jury constitution, private defense, public defense, diploma;
- the players involved at each stage within the university;
- reference to administrative documents.
Doctor with thesis
Two career opportunities are available:
Personnel scientifique hors cadre
Compensation paid by the assets of the University of Namur or an external donor.
Personnel scientifique au cadre
Compensation paid by the allocation received by the University of Namur from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
| Royal Decree of October 31, 1953 - Decree of July 19, 1991 on the career of scientific researchers (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) - Decree of November 7, 2013 defining the higher education landscape and the academic organization of studies (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) |
Additional information on the status of scientific personnel is available on TerraNostra (internal documents).
Contact the Human Resources Department: secretariat.srh@unamur.be
Recruitment procedures
There are different recruitment procedures depending on your status.
Doctorate equivalence
Universities are competent to issue equivalences for postgraduate diplomas, in particular for doctorate titles (with thesis).
Human resources
The Human Resources department is responsible for:
Personnel administration
- Defining and implementing a social policy in compliance with legal constraints: statutes, various regulations, collective agreements...;
- Managing social relations: social interlocutors (union delegation, staff delegation within consultation bodies... ), staff bodies...;
- Taking charge of policy relating to appraisal, training, career plans...;
- Social balance sheet: forward-looking management of framework, career...
- Policy relating to well-being at work in collaboration with the SerP (alcohol, tobacco, occupational medicine, harassment, stress...);
- Management of global insurance issues;
- Management of social services for staff members.
Contact: secretariat.srh@unamur.be
Administration and calculation of salaries
The Remuneration Unit manages your personnel file:
- Personal data
- Contractual data
- Processing of absences
- Documents for third parties: SNCB certificate, mutual insurance document, "unemployment" (C4, C131, ....), requests for occupation certificates, vacation allowance certificate, income certificate, employer's certificate, ...
- Third-party procedures: declaration and follow-up of work/work-related accidents, family allowances, ...
Contact: cellule.remuneration@unamur.be
SPOCs (Single Point of Contact) have been appointed. More information is available on the intranet.
Wellness
The Prevention Service (SerP)
The SerP's mission is to ensure the well-being of all University workers. In close collaboration with the Vice-Rectorate for Human Resources, Welfare and Safety at Work, the Prevention Service assists the employer in applying the measures found in the law on welfare at work of 04/08/1996 and the resulting welfare code.
Contact: administration.serp@unamur.be
Trusted persons
As part of the prevention of psycho-social risks, 8 trusted persons have been designated. More information is available on the intranet.
Euraxess
The Euraxess program was initiated in 2012 as part of a continuous improvement process to guarantee and improve the quality of services to researchers, encourage and support their mobility by implementing a recruitment policy that respects the European Charter and the Recruitment Code for Researchers, as well as monitoring the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R)and Open, transparent, and Merit based Recruitment (OTM-R) actions.
Royal Observatory for Scientific Careers (ORCS)
In 2018, the Government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation approved funding for the creation of an Observatoire de la Recherche et des Carrières Scientifiques, which is integrated into the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS. This Observatory is responsible for monitoring and analyzing the careers of researchers throughout the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Thematic reports are published regularly.