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Welcome to UNamur's Faculty of Education and Training Sciences, the first Faculty in Belgium to be specifically dedicated to teacher training! Do you dream of inspiring curious minds and passing on your knowledge to future generations? Discover our dynamic training courses with active and innovative pedagogies to support you in the art of teaching with passion.

Are you a (future) teacher trainer in higher education and want to acquire the right teaching qualification? The Master of specialization in teacher training and the CAPAES are for you!

Arcadia is the name of an ideal society, a bucolic utopia. But it is also the name chosen by the members of a brand-new research centre at UNamur. This centre, created within the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and attached to the ESPHIN institute, questions three themes at the heart of our contemporaneity: the Anthropocene, history and utopias.

As a child, Bruno Colson was very fond of toy soldiers, the colorful uniforms of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, cavalry charges... From this passion, he made his profession. An expert in the history of war, he has studied contemporary questions of strategy and defense for years. On the eve of his retirement, Bruno Colson looks back on the involvement of Belgians in the Austrian troops in the 18th century with an exhibition at the Moretus Plantin University Library (BUMP). Interview.

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 Department of Art History and Archaeology of UNamur is participating for the first time in an experimental archaeology project, within the framework of a doctoral thesis on the production of glass in the Roman period. Conducted in partnership with Malagne, the Rochefort archaeopark, the Specularia project aims to gain a better understanding of the reality of the gestures and techniques of Gallo-Roman craftsmen and to scientifically validate hypotheses that are still debated today. To carry out this experiment, the Department of Art History and Archaeology is launching its first participatory funding.

On 14 September 2022, he took the reins of the Faculty of Arts Christophe Flament, professor in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, will replace David Vrydaghs as Dean for a four-year term.

At the end of January 2023, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) returned a real treasure to Belgium: a medieval charter bearing the seal of the Count of Flanders Philippe d'Alsace, formerly kept in the abbey of Messines (West Flanders), which had disappeared at the beginning of the First World War. A look back at the tribulations of this archival document, the restitution of which is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the PraME Centre of UNamur, the General Archives of the Kingdom and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Success for the interfaith and interdisciplinary colloquium organised by the University Chair Our Lady of Peace and the eponymous research centre, in collaboration with the Abbey of Maredsous.

Launched in March 2011, Pluri-LL is intended as a lever to stimulate and coordinate collaboration between academics and scientists doing research in different areas of plurilingualism.