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The Language Center provides foreign language training for members of the university community. Our aim is to offer local, quality teaching, meeting the academic and professional needs of our learners, whether they are students, future students or international mobility students staying at UNamur.

Offering an active and ambitious pedagogy is a priority for the Language Center teachers. Drawing on our experience in various fields related to education, we design innovative pedagogical projects through stimulating and meaningful activities.

The teaching of languages for specific purposes is a research discipline in its own right, at the crossroads of different fields of linguistics (e.g. corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics), didactics and psychology. The Language Center aims to position its professional practice at a high level of quality, and ensures research into the didactics of languages for specific purposes in order to nurture innovative teaching that meets the needs of the academic community and society.

As part of or in addition to classes, Language Center teachers organize various extra-academic activities with the aim of offering students additional practice opportunities but also promoting the languages taught as well as their culture.

Contact the Language Center Management +32 (0)81 72 41 48 direction.cdl@unamur.be Secretariat +32 (0)81 72 40 18 secretariat.cdl@unamur.be Address Rue Joseph Grafé, 1 - 5000 Namur6th floor of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters

Complementing our continuing education offering, the Salle de pros was inaugurated in May 2023. Located on rue Godefroid, it brings together 4 specialized continuing education centers: CeDES (center for economic and social didactics), CEDOCEF (center for studies and documentation in the teaching of French), CEFOPEF (center for continuing education in science and mathematics) and CEFOSCIM (training center for teachers and trainers). It offers a forum for exchange at the crossroads of research and the field, as well as training, resources and teaching tools. Coaching is also available on request. A cycle of themed conferences is organized each year.

The Printemps des Sciences (PDS) is an initiative of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, coordinated by the Sciences.be network, organized each year by universities and colleges.

The University of Namur organizes or participates in several information evenings on higher education for students at the end of secondary school. During these evenings, students and parents have the opportunity to take part in two information hubs led by professors from the University of Namur and/or UCLouvain and representatives from Hautes Ecoles.

The University of Namur's astronomical observatory project is the desire to provide the Walloon capital with a permanent observatory, combined with a higher education, awareness-raising and scientific mediation program open to students, schools and the general public. A dream come true thanks to the generosity of our University's donors and partners.

The department's three units develop joint research as well as more specific research in each of the languages. In all cases, the department's researchers aim for international excellence and visibility.

In addition to courses and exercises given within the Department, activities are routinely organized.