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Bachelor 2 and 3 students in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures have taken on a rather unusual challenge: creating audio guides to London's main monuments and sites. An original and successful educational project, well worth a listen!

The Centre Hospitalier Régional Sambre et Meuse (CHRSM), the police and the Public Prosecutor's Office of the judicial district of Namur inaugurated the Center for the Support of Sexual Violence (Centre de Prise en Charge des Violences Sexuelles - CPVS) in the presence of Mrs Sarah Schlitz, Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity. The center opened its doors on April 27. As a partner of the CPVS, UNamur actively supports this service!

<p>The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking (THE Impact) published its rankings last week and, for the first time, the University of Namur is included! The ranking assesses the impact of universities in relation to the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and UNamur immediately scores well, if not very well! Overall, UNamur ranks in the top half of the 1,591 universities whose rankings have been accepted. On a criterion concerning contribution to the ODD "Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions", it is even ranked in the top 200.</p>

This week, UNamur is hosting an international conference organized as part of the "Philippine studies" project, which aims to strengthen exchanges between Filipino and European academics. Today, Anna Amalia B. Vibar, a Filipino master's student under the supervision of Prof. Sébastien Dujardin, talks to us about her research into the vulnerability of populations to climate change.

"In the south of the country, 32% of women more or less regularly encounter financial difficulties when buying their menstrual protection", reported the newspaper La Libre in 2022, figures from the non-profit organisation Synergie Wallonie. Many women face menstrual insecurity, and students are no exception. For several months now, the UNamur community has been actively involved in the fight against menstrual insecurity. Some actions have taken place on campus in recent weeks.

This week, UNamur is hosting an international conference organized as part of the "Philippine studies" project, which aims to strengthen exchanges between Filipino and European academics. Today, Dr. Kerby Alvarez tells us about his doctoral thesis on the history of earthquakes and the socio-cultural interpretation of disasters, completed at UNamur under the supervision of Prof. Isabelle Parmentier.

This week, UNamur is hosting an international conference organised as part of the "Philippine studies" project, which aims to strengthen exchanges between Filipino and European academics. The Philippine studies programme is funded by a grant from the Philippine government through the initiative of Senate President pro tempore Loren Legarda.

The 9th Belgian inter-university final of the "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition took place on Friday June 2 in Louvain-la-Neuve.

The world is full of realities that are often invisible and ignored. Among them, Europe's shanty towns are a striking example of people's struggle to survive in inhuman conditions. This issue is at the heart of the fourth episode of the podcast "Le monde allant vers" (play on words, in French, meaning "the world going towards or the world backwards", entitled "Makeshift shelters". Where can you listen to it? On the FUCID website and on podcast platforms. And RUN is also due to broadcast it!

Very often in nature, we observe phenomena of natural synchronisation and the emergence of regular patterns: a crowd applauding in unison at the end of a concert, the cells in the walls of the heart pulsating in a coordinated fashion, black and white stripes on a zebra, brown spots surrounded by black in leopards... But how can we explain this uniformity if there is no global controller or explicit rule directing this coordination?

This is a first for UNamur: with encouraging results, it has been included in the prestigious Positive Impact Rating (PIR) ranking reserved for Business Schools worldwide! By being ranked in the third of the five PIR levels, UNamur is demonstrating its ability to meet societal challenges.

BepiColombo will fly past Mercury on 19 June 2023. It will pass close to the planet's surface at an altitude of approximately 236 km. BepiColombo is an ESA/JAXA mission involving a team of researchers from the University of Namur (naXys institute).