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Ghent, New Caledonia, Norway, Hungary, Montpellier... these are just some of the destinations to which our students will be flying for a four-quarter period as part of their studies. To prepare for this departure abroad, the International Relations Department, in collaboration with FUCID, the Namur campus NGO, offered a culture shock awareness training course.

The University of Namur (UNamur) continues to distinguish itself in the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking (THE Impact), affirming its commitment to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a score of 69.5/100. This performance places it between 600th and 800th position out of 1963 institutions, underlining its presence in the top half of the global ranking.

Douglas Kennedy, born in New York, found literature and film a way to escape family tensions. At the age of 20, he moved to Ireland, founded a theater company and began writing every night. A nomad, he feels at home in London, Paris, Berlin and New York. Author of breathless novels since Piège nuptial, he is best known for L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie and the trilogy La symphonie du hasard. His works explore couples in crisis, the family, and social change. An observer of the United States, his recent novels tackle religious drift and hatred of the other. At the end of April, the celebrated writer was the guest at the Grandes Conférences Namuroises organized by UNamur.

On August 3, 2024, bdelloid rotifers will board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a new space adventure. Led by the University of Namur (UNamur) in collaboration with the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the European Space Agency (ESA), the experiment aims to study the behavior of these tiny organisms in microgravity.

What exactly did the ancient Egyptians eat? How did they prepare and preserve their food? What was their nutritional value? René Preys, an Egyptologist at UNamur, is currently involved in this astonishing research. This expert is a major figure in Belgian Egyptology. Interview.

Floriane Goosse, a PhD student at the University of Namur, within the NaDI-CeRCLe research center, has received the prestigious "Best Research Paper Award" for her thesis paper conducted in collaboration with Wafa Hammedi, professor in the Department of Management at UNamur, and Dominik Mahr, from Maastricht University.