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Communiqué of the Rectors' Council of May 23, 2025

Communiqué of the Rectors' Council of May 23, 2025.

A new platform dedicated to research in the humanities and social sciences (SHS) is being launched at UNamur. The aim? To offer SHS researchers methodological support tailored to their needs and strengthen SHS excellence at UNamur. This platform, SHS Impulse, will provide various services such as financial support for training, consultancy, access to resources, or co-financed software purchases.

For Bruno Dumas, computer science fits in with the principles of applied psychology Artificial intelligence (AI) is interfering in our professional as well as our private lives. It both seduces and worries us. On a global scale, it is at the heart of major strategic, societal or economic issues, still being debated in mid-February 2025, at the AI World Summit in Paris. But how can we, as users, avoid being subjected to it? How can we gain access to the necessary transparency of its workings? By placing his research prism on the user's side, Bruno Dumas is something of a "computer psychologist". An expert in human-computer interaction, co-president of the NaDI Institute (Namur Digital Institute), he defends the idea of a reasoned and enlightened use of emerging technologies.

On May 22, 2025, UNamur was pleased to host the restitution event of the FWB/CoARA inter-university project. This project, which began in early 2024, brought together Belgium's five French-speaking university institutions for fifteen months with the aim of developing tools, evaluation and recognition processes for research and researchers in line with the principles of the CoARA charter, signed by the universities of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, between September 2022 and October 2023.

What if your future started with a trip? On Saturday June 28, the University of Namur opens its doors to you: an opportunity to discover how studies can rhyme with openness, curiosity... and mobility. At UNamur, mobility isn't just an interlude in a course of study: it's an academic, human and professional experience offered from the bachelor's level upwards. Didactic trips, internships, Erasmus programs... mobility is an integral part of the university's DNA.

How can data analysis contribute to sustainable development and the social profit sector? This is the challenge answered by students in the Bachelor of Management Engineering program at the Faculty of Economics Management Communication sciencesPo (EMCP) at the University of Namur. On December 12, 2024, they presented their projects at the Namur Stock Exchange, after three months' work on data analyses carried out in collaboration with partners in the social profit sector. They explored themes essential to this sector and our society, as part of the "Data Analytics" course, taught by Claire Deventer in partnership with the King Baudouin Foundation and leading representatives of the social profit sector in Belgium.