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Physics & Challenges (Physique & Défis in French), a seminar course initiated by Professor Jim Plumat in 2013 at UNamur as part of the PUNCH projects, is organised in the form of a research project. This year, a partnership has been set up with the Haute École de la Province de Namur (HEPN) for a practical systemic training course with an original pedagogical approach.

This summer, Kevin will take up his post as president of the UNamur General Assembly of students (AGE). Aged 22, he is a master's student in physics and knows the Namur campus well. Over the past five years, he has taken on several roles: course delegate, student administrator, member of the AGE bureau, member of the Sciences Review and of a project dormitory, as well as culture and communication delegate. This passionate and creative student wants this new academic year to be all about sharing. Interview.

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.

From 11 to 13 May 2022, a hundred or so scientists and actors from the economic and cultural world gathered at UNamur to discuss the issue of water pollution. The aim? To share and enrich knowledge, but also to alert and inform about its long-term effects on fauna, flora and human beings. Scientific sessions, workshops and a conference for the public were on the programme for these three days.

Increasingly sophisticated technologies are invading our spheres of activity without our prior consultation as citizens. Shouldn't the new digital tools, artificial intelligence or technologies resulting from progress in neuroscience, which are transforming our identity and social relationships, be the subject of broad and sufficiently informed democratic debates? This question is at the heart of the international "research-action" project "A new humanism in the age of neuroscience and artificial intelligence" in which UNamur is participating.

This is a technical and scientific feat that has just been patented at the UNamur. Researchers from the Laboratory of Analysis by Nuclear Reactions (LARN), the Department of Physics of UNamur (NISM Institute) and the spin-off Innovative Coating Solutions (ICS) have succeeded in developing a carbon-based coating with innovative properties that can be used in a wide range of fields, including fuel cells, decoration, and mechanical parts for automobiles.

As part of the English course of the Bachelor in Science and Medicine, students are introduced to the oral popularisation of scientific concepts. This year, these future biologists, chemists, geologists/geographers or pharmacists expressed themselves in the form of videos inspired by the famous French science popularisation programme, "C'est pas sorcier". A competition to choose the best video has been launched as part of the Printemps des sciences.

A frightening figure in traditional tales, the wolf is the object of a myth carried by the popular memory of our elders. Long gone from our landscapes, this large predator is making a comeback in Wallonia and is posing us with major challenges. Does it still have a place? A historian and a veterinarian talk about this fascinating natural phenomenon.

The wolf, a majestic animal that has had many tumultuous adventures with man. Respected in ancient Rome, then demonised from the Middle Ages onwards, the wolf is now gaining ground in Belgium after having disappeared from our lands since the end of the 19th century. This subject was at the heart of the conference "Return of the wolf in the Walloon Region", organised by UNamur on 9 March 2023. This was an opportunity to decipher the past and present presence of the wolf in our countryside and forests, with Julie Duchêne, FRESH-FNRS doctoral student in History, and Benoit Muylkens, Head of the Department of veterinary medicine.

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..

Getting students to work together around a single theme throughout the academic year is the dynamic that continues during this second term at the Faculty of Law. After having explored childhood and migration in its first edition, this year's Fil Rouge (Red Thread) weaves around harassment. Numerous awareness-raising initiatives have been undertaken. Just one example? In mid-March, a session dedicated to street harassment was organized by and for law students.

(Update 04/04: This article is "an April Fool") A remarkable event took place during Printemps des sciences, which ran from March 18 to 24, 2024. While a visit to the UNamur Astronomical Observatory was offered to the general public on the evening of March 23, a unique phenomenon occurred.