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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.

On January 23 and 24, 2025, UNamur experts were present at the SETT (School Education Transformation Technology) trade show for its sixth edition. A must-attend event for digital education in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, dedicated to principals, teachers and technical-pedagogical advisors.

Jamie Wright, a researcher at the Namur Digital Institute at UNamur, participated in a study conducted by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona and published in the prestigious journal *Nature Human Behaviour*.  The study shows that languages around the world tend towards lexical economy, reusing words to denote different concepts when doing so does not lead to communicative confusion.

The result of a collaboration with Isabelle Frochot of the University of Burgundy Europe, a study in which Alain Decrop, a marketing professor at the EMCP Faculty, participated, shows that the mountains foster a genuine reconnection with oneself, with others, and with one’s environment. The results of this research were published in the prestigious journal *Recherche et Applications en Marketing* (RAM).

The U-BPM (User-oriented Business Process Management) project explores how artificial intelligence can serve as a bridge between different business functions within a company. This process-management-focused approach is led by Malik Schinckus as part of the Win4doc program, a doctoral thesis funded by SPW Research. In collaboration with UNamur and the consulting firm Daïmo, Malik Schinckus brings theory and practice together to improve collaboration, performance, and reflection on everyday practices in the business world. 

Detecting a failure before it occurs: that is the goal of the research being conducted by Antoine Hubermont, a doctoral student at UNamur. This project, named Monsater, is funded by SPW Research as part of the Win4Doc program in collaboration with the space company Telespazio Belgium. It addresses a key strategic challenge: ensuring the reliability of complex systems, particularly in the space sector. 

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Through research, teaching, and knowledge sharing, Wafa Hammedi, a professor at Sciences Po’s Faculty of Economics, Management, and Communication (EMCP), has charted a path guided by her convictions. Far from the performance-driven clichés typically associated with marketing, she advocates for socially engaged research that serves society, equity, and inclusion.

Abstract Deep learning has become a central part of everyday life, and has given us powerful digital tools such as machine translators, voice assistants, and large language models. The Deaf communities, however, benefit verylittle from this progress. Sign languages are full natural languages, but they have no widely used written form, so the large text corpora and pretrained models that support these tools for spoken languages have no direct equivalent. As a result, sign language processing is held back by two related problems: a persistent shortage of annotated data, and a lack of tools to analyze the languages themselves.This thesis focuses on one component of the sign language processing pipeline that has received comparatively little attention: sign language segmentation, the temporal partitioning of a continuous signing video into individual sign units. Segmentation sits between raw video and almost every symbolic task built on top of it, yet it remains poorly understood. The goal of this work is twofold: to advance the segmentation task itself, and to turn sign language processing research into tools that are usable by the Deaf community, with French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) as the main setting.The central contribution of this thesis is a set of segmentation models. We first study approaches based on recurrent neural networks, and show that their main difficulty lies in the modeling of the transitions between signs, the brief ambiguous movements that separate one sign from the next and that are easily confused with the signs themselves. This insight motivates the Hydra framework, a new approach that detects each sign as a whole unit rather than deciding, frame by frame, whether a sign is being produced. Concretely, instead of classifying every frame, the model predicts the distance from each frame to the nearest sign boundaries, which makes it less sensitive to the ambiguous regions and improves consistently over prior methods. Around this core, we present further contributions: a sign language-to-text dictionary that recognizes signs from an ordinary webcam, supporting work on isolated sign recognition, and a collaborative platform that gathers new sign data as a side effect of everyday use. Together, these contributions narrow the gap between sign language processing research and the people whose language it concerns. Jury Prof. Benoit Frénay - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Anthony Cleve - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Katrien Beuls - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Barbara Hammer - Bielefeld University, GermanyProf. Michèle Gouiffès - Paris-Saclay University, FranceDr. Mathieu De Coster - Ghent University, Belgium I am registering to attend Pierre Poitier's thesis defense

An opportunity as part of the master's degree in management engineering, if you choose the "digital & information management" option.

In addition to studying abroad right here at home, come discover the “course” and “internship” mobility opportunities offered by Sciences Po’s Faculty of Economics, Management, and Communication (EMCP), as well as the options for dual degrees!

September 14, 2026 What's on the schedule for everyone9:00 a.m. | Welcome at Pedro Arrupe, Rue de Bruxelles 67, 5000 Namur9:30 a.m. | Ceremony at Pedro Arrupe 11:00 a.m. | Back-to-school celebration at Saint-Loup Church—to be confirmed, rue du Collège, 5000 Namur—followed by a welcome for students by the student clubs. Today's Rates September 15For Block 1 (Room I02)* - Welcome Session10:40 a.m.: Introduction by the Dean/Associate Dean (Anthony Cleve - Marie-Ange Remiche)11:10 a.m.: Introduction by the academic advisor (Géraldine Grandjean)11:30 a.m.: Introduction by the Academic Coordinator (Fanny Boraita)11:50 a.m.: Introduction to the Student Services Office (Cédric Aerts)12:10 p.m.: Introduction to CSLabs (Hugo Raskin) For students in the first 60 credits of the bachelor’s program (first-year students only*) – Room I022:00 p.m.: Introductory session for the English courseAttendance at these sessions is mandatory.For UES** students and new Master’s students (Room I30) – Welcome session2:00 p.m.: Introduction by the Dean/Associate Dean (Anthony Cleve – Marie-Ange Remiche)2:30 p.m.: Introduction by the academic advisor (Géraldine Grandjean)2:50 p.m.: Introduction by the Academic Coordinator (Fanny Boraita)3:10 p.m.: Introduction to the Student Services Office (Cédric Aerts)3:30 p.m.: Introduction to CSLabs (Hugo Raskin) September 16 For Block 1 (Room to be determined—check the schedule)*8:30 a.m.: Mathematical Foundations for Computer Science course (M. De Vleeschouwer)Attendance at this session is mandatoryFor all students: Classes begin (see schedule)Information session and PAE setupSeptember 18: Bachelor’s Program, Block 1 (non-first-year students): 1:00–2:00 p.m. – Academic HallSeptember 17: Bachelor’s Program, Blocks 2 and 3: 1:00–2:00 p.m. – Academic HallSeptember 16: MA1 and UES (non-first-year students): 1:00–2:00 p.m. in I30* First-time students: Students enrolled for the first time in a computer science program at UNamur, whether they are coming from high school, a college, another university, or are enrolled in a staggered-schedule program. ** UES: Additional course units for the master’s program (bridge year) Staggered-Schedule Classes Bachelor's and Master's 60Saturday, September 12—Classes BeginFor First-Year Students (Block 1 and UES):9:00 a.m.: Presentations in Room I02 by the Associate Dean, Ms. Marie-Ange REMICHE; the academic advisor, Ms. Géraldine GRANDJEAN; and the IT coordinator, Mr. Cédric AERTS. Lecture Hall I02 (ground floor of the School of Computer Science). Attendance at this session is mandatory. The presentation from the orientation session will be posted on the BVE afterward.10:00 a.m.: Classes begin for all students Specialized Master's Degree in Computer Science and Innovation: Business Analysis and IT Governance For students who need to take prerequisite coursesFriday, September 18, at 9:00 a.m., Seminar Room I22 on the 2nd floor of the Faculty building.For all new studentsClasses begin on Saturday, October 16, in the academic hall on the 4th floor of the School of Computer Science, starting at 8:30 a.m. And before school starts? Give yourself the best possible chance—enroll in preparatory courses!Preparatory courses allow you to get a taste of university-level education by reviewing the subjects essential to your future program of study.Designed exclusively for students graduating in 2026, these preparatory courses—scheduled between mid-August and early September—are tailored to each university program.Learn more about the schedules for the different sessions and register for the preparatory courses...  To make the most of your first semester at the university, be sure to attend the orientation days!The orientation days will take place on September 10 and 11, 2026.On the agenda: a tour of the campus and the city, a student housing fair (KàPs), themed workshops (student rights, digital tools, budgeting, student engagement, sports, and more), a barbecue, and a super-enthusiastic team ready to help you discover life on campus!Thursday, September 10: 7:30 a.m. – Student check-in; 8:30 a.m.–12:40 p.m. - Workshops for students; 12:40 p.m. – Lunch – Barbecue available by registration (€3.60 per sausage sandwich / falafel sandwich) and a bar run by the AGE; 2:00–6:00 p.m. - Project-based student housing fair; 8:30 p.m.–1:00 a.m. – Bunker reserved for first-year studentsFriday, the 11th: 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. - Workshops for students; 12:30 p.m. - Lunch; 2:00 p.m. - Depending on the faculty: organized by the faculty or open to all.Reserved for new students - Information will be sent after registration at UNamur.