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The ERC CoG, a funding instrument of the European Research Council (ERC), enables outstanding scientists to implement innovative concepts over a period of five years and thus strengthens the European research landscape. The B-YOND project will focus on the reprogramming of chemical elements properties in order to initiate the creation of a new generation of more robust and accessible catalysts.

Thanks to the BEWARE Fellowships programme, the University of Namur will welcome two new post-doctoral students. Within the research institutes naXys and NaDI and in collaboration with the companies CISEO and SAVICS, they will contribute to the development of two projects. The first aims to design an intelligent robot for the pharmaceutical industry, and the second, a secure system for sharing decentralized data.

Prof. Olivier Deparis and Dr Sébastien Mouchet (University of Namur, NISM Institute, Department of Physics) have published a book on the theme of physical optics and environmental biology. On the path of Jean-Pol Vigneron’s research, this “avant-garde” book according to Artech House, opens the door to bioinspired applications in the fields of optics, energy and the environment. Explanation.

In October 2021, the University of Namur signed International Research Partnership (IRP) agreements with the University of Lorraine for the period 2021-2025. This official act around a common research project gives a concrete form to the collaborations which have been lasting for more than 15 years between the two involved research units.

Researchers at the UNamur have just filed a patent for a completely innovative coating, in collaboration with the spin-off Innovative Coating Solutions (ICS). This project was supported by the Win²Wal programme of SPW Research.

One of the major concerns with the disease caused by Covid-19 is its severe course, which causes many problems that can lead to hospital overload. Early detection of whether or not a person is at risk of developing a severe form of the disease is therefore crucial to optimise patient care and hospital resource management. This is one of the objectives of the study carried out by QUALIblood, a UNamur spin-off, in collaboration with the Department of Pharmacy and many other industrial and hospital partners. Exploration of a cutting-edge technology at the service of health.

Do you know Hector Lebrun? This brilliant yet little-known 19th century scientist lends his first name to an original and interdisciplinary project at UNamur: a podcast that questions science, scientific practices and positions. On the menu: 4 episodes on various themes such as the place of women in research, the interest of animal experimentation, the role of academics in society and the validity of the theory of evolution. In addition to the podcasts, round tables and a virtual exhibition will also be organised. A book will also be produced.

Arcadia is the name of an ideal society, a bucolic utopia. But it is also the name chosen by the members of a brand-new research centre at UNamur. This centre, created within the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and attached to the ESPHIN institute, questions three themes at the heart of our contemporaneity: the Anthropocene, history and utopias.

Since 2003, the University of Namur has been testing the basic knowledge and skills of its new students during their first weeks in higher education by means of tests called "Passports for the Bac". In September 2021, 1,470 UNamur students took one or more of these prerequisite tests. Two observations emerge: on the one hand, there has persisted for several years a significant disparity in profiles at the entrance to higher education, and on the other hand, the reconfiguration of secondary education in the context of a pandemic seems to have had a negative impact on the level of mastery of several prerequisites among new students.

Two researchers from the Department of Pharmacy initiated the project: Romain Siriez and Constant Gillot. Under the supervision of Professor Jean-Michel Dogné, they imagined creating a real pharmacy, which would be the ideal place to practice innovative pedagogy, essential for the training of master's students during specialized pharmacotherapy.

François Briard graduated in Law and Management of Information Technology (DGTIC) in 1994 after obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science in 1993. He works at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. During his schooling, which was 100% at UNamur, he was vice-president of the Namur Region and student delegate during his application years in economic and social sciences, computer science option. Thanks to the multidisciplinary training provided at UNamur, he was able to seize several opportunities to reorient his career within CERN.

Katrien Beuls is undoubtedly a fine example of the growing number of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers. After a rather literary career, guided by her curiosity, she began studying computer science and became interested in computational methods for processing human language with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).