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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.

Friday May 24 saw the first nocturne of Namur's cultural venues: the Nuit Blanche. The event brought together fifteen museum, cultural, heritage and scientific institutions, which opened their doors to the public from 6pm to midnight.

Caroline Hunt-Matthes is a whistleblower and expert on the subject. She was the guest of the Faculty of Law, as part of their Fil Rouge on the theme of harassment. Today, she takes stock of the role of whistleblowers. Interview.

The University of Namur posts encouraging results in the prestigious Positive Impact Rating (PIR), holding its own in the "Progressing" category for the second year running. With an improved score of 7.0/10, UNamur once again demonstrates its commitment to societal challenges and its pioneering role in responsible education.

The Notre-Dame de la Paix Chair closed its annual lecture series with a dialogue between three scientists from different backgrounds to explore, from the angle of the common good, the question of the conquest of space, and the innovations and commercial exploitations that flow from it.

In 2021, the European Union has embarked on a titanic project to safeguard the genomes of all eukaryotic species in Europe. In other words, all living organisms, with the exception of bacteria and archaea (micro-organisms). Called ERGA, for European Reference Genome Atlas, and in which UNamur is participating thanks to Professor Alice Dennis, this project hopes to help safeguard biodiversity, at a time when a fifth of European species are in danger of extinction..