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The evocative power of cinema helps us better understand modern digital issues. This is what Benoît Vanderose and Anthony Simonofski, professors at the University of Namur in the Faculty of Computer Science and Management Science, wish to highlight through their "Pop-Code" podcast. The authors explore the use of Pop-Culture for digital education, while examining its challenges and limits. With almost 10 episodes, "Pop-Code" has just celebrated its first anniversary, and the authors are already setting high ambitions for the coming months.

Faced with the ecological crisis and soaring energy prices, the energy transition has become an undeniable emergency. Every day, at UNamur, researchers from a wide range of fields - geology, chemistry, physics, computer science - are thinking about innovative ways of dealing with this perilous future.

In the course of 2021, 42% of Belgian companies suffered a cyber attack. Those targeting citizens are no less numerous: more than 4.5 million suspicious messages have been sent to Safeonweb, the government body responsible for informing Belgian citizens about computer security. More than ever, at a time when the geopolitical context reinforces the threat of a cyberwar, how can we cope? Jean-Noël Colin, cybersecurity expert, professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of UNamur and member of the NaDI Institute, gives us an explanation.

Congratulations to Carla Coduti and Matteo Ghislain who respectively received the public and jury prizes in the International Humanitarian Law mock trial! This very special exercise demonstrates the active pedagogical approach dear to the UNamur Faculty of Law.

Five students with a passion for computer science represented the University of Namur at SpaceHack 2023 as part of the UniversEH alliance. This initiative aims to build a collective entrepreneurial action to explore the future potential of the space industry up to 2035. 26 countries took part in this international competition, which brought together start-ups, space-related companies and students on space-related programmes.

As part of the Francqui Chair 2022-2023 of the Faculty of Law, Lucie Cluzel, professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris Nanterre, was invited to discuss topics related to digital law. Students, staff members and the general public responded massively by participating in three interactive lectures.

Over-indebtedness, addiction, homelessness, lack of access to rights, begging... Professionals in the health, education and social action sectors are directly confronted with social inequalities and precariousness. Their commitment requires them to work in an interdisciplinary way, to take a reflective look at their practices and to use relevant theoretical models. In response to this need, UNamur, HENALLUX, HEPN and UCLouvain, in collaboration with Formanam and Resinam, are organising a Certificate in Supporting Extreme Precariousness. A discussion with Christine Mahy, General Secretary of the Walloon Anti-Poverty Network (RWLP), was held to open up the debate on some of the key issues that will be addressed during this continuing education course.

Making students active participants in their own success, getting them more involved and developing their soft skills - these are the challenges that assistants working on practical work in the law of obligations have set themselves. Since last year, they have been rethinking the way they teach by changing their posture with the aim of encouraging student success.

Carried out in collaboration with the NADI research institute of the University of Namur, the Pôle Académique de Namur, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the Royal Association of Engineers of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech ULg and 200 associations internationally (117 countries), the sixth edition of the Gender Scan survey measures the evolution of feminisation in the technology and digital sector. The survey was conducted for the first time in Belgium among female students (higher education) to measure the level of satisfaction of female students in these fields.

From 17 to 19 February 2023, the CSLabs, a student association based at the Faculty of Computer Science at UNamur, organised its annual hackathon. What was on the agenda? A real computer marathon during which several teams met to think about an innovative project on a particular theme. This year, it was about disability.

The Namurians of the Year for 2022 are known! Organised by the ASBL "Namurois de l'année" in partnership with the magazine AlluMeuse, the "Namurois de l'année" ceremony has just unveiled the Namur personalities who have distinguished themselves over the past year. And among them, in the science category, we find Anthony Cleve, professor in the Faculty of Computer Science.

A decade ago, Elise Degrave was the first in Belgium to focus her thesis on data protection in a digital state. Today, she is widely recognized in this field in the public, political, legal and academic spheres. An expertise and a personality, once again rewarded on the occasion of the Cérémonie des Namurois de l'année, where Elise Degrave has just been named the winner in the Sciences category..