When Students Become Researchers: Lisa and Donaciene’s Experience at the Faculty of Law
What if, starting in high school, students could contribute to real scientific research? That is the goal of the “student-researcher” program, launched at UNamur more than fifteen years ago. Donaciene Quoirin and Lisa Salmon, law students, have experienced it firsthand. Their stories.
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Gender Through the Lens of Human Rights: Stéphanie Wattier Publishes a seminal work
At a time when issues of gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the fight against violence against women are at the forefront of public debate, Stéphanie Wattier, a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur, has published a reference work titled *Gender Through the Lens of Human Rights*, published by Anthemis.
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Domestic Violence: Understanding, Identifying, and Taking Action
230 participants, 25 papers, a shared conviction: domestic violence must be studied in a different way. Neither marginal nor accidental, it constitutes a major, deeply rooted social phenomenon whose manifestations extend far beyond its most visible forms. A conference held at UNamur and a collective volume are fundamentally reshaping our understanding of the phenomenon.
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CAPACITI: Protecting Children or Involving Them—Do We Really Have to Choose?
They are rarely asked for their opinion. Yet the law is clear: every child must be able to express their views on decisions that affect them. A gap persists between this principle and reality. This is what the CAPACITI project seeks to bridge by bringing together partners from the Greater Region around a shared goal: making children’s rights a concrete reality. At UNamur, a team of legal experts has examined an issue as common as it is sensitive—parental separations—to better understand it… and to bring about changes in practice.
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Continuing Education: An Opportunity for Universities
The days when people chose a career once and for all and when experience alone was enough to climb the career ladder seem to be over. Nowadays, lifelong learning has almost become the norm. “There is clearly a trend in this direction, particularly in the context of automation and artificial intelligence, which makes acquiring new skills all the more important,” says Michel Ajzen, a professor in the Management Department at the Faculty of Economics, Management, and Communication at SciencePo, UNamur, and a member of the Namur Digital Institute. “And it’s not a generational issue: whether you’re 30, 40, or 50, this need exists.”
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Learning Law in a Different Way Through Educational Games
Role-playing games, card games, board games, escape rooms… For several years now, the teaching assistants in the Contract Law unit have been revitalizing their practical sessions through the use of game-based learning. This educational approach transforms classes into spaces for discussion and collaboration, while boosting student motivation and engagement.
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NaDI doctoral students are launching “What If AI…,” a lecture series aimed at “demystifying artificial intelligence”
Through five interdisciplinary lecture-workshops, doctoral students from UNamur NaDI invite the general public to develop a critical perspective on artificial intelligence, which is already transforming our daily lives.
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Open morning
Take part in our open morning
Given the works in the rue de Bruxelles and the renovation of part of the University parking lots, we invite you to use public transport whenever possible (train or bus) to reach Namur. UNamur boasts an ideal location, in the heart of the city just a five-minute walk from the TEC and SNCB train stations.If you're coming by car, take a look at the parking map provided.
Look forward to seeing you on Saturday, June 29!
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Dynamism and interaction: practical work in law of obligations moves towards active pedagogy
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.
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Elise Degrave, Namuroise of the Year: a whistleblower for data protection!
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..
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Law students and professionals unite against street harassment
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.
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The Faculty of Law mobilizes against harassment
The Faculty of Law's project is to get students working together around a single theme, which will be implemented in all courses throughout the academic year. After exploring childhood and migration in its first edition, this year's Fil Rouge focuses on the theme of harassment. Following a conclusive first four months, the momentum has been stepped up for this second half of the academic year.
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