Career prospects for mathematicians
Mathematics graduates are rare. And yet, many employers are looking for them: banks, insurance companies, consultancy firms, private and university research centres, schools... To help its students identify the possibilities open to them, the Mathematics Department invited them to meet four alumni who are currently working as business analysts, data analysts, teachers, risk directors and actuary.
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An ERC Starting Grant for Professor Jérémy Dodeigne
Jérémy Dodeigne, professeur de sciences politiques à la Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion de l'UNamur, et président de l’Institut de recherche Transitions vient de décrocher une prestigieuse ERC Starting Grant de près de 1,5 Millions d'euros pour son projet POLSTYLE.
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Prestigious visit by Prof. Jean-Luc Brédas
On 9 June 2023, the NISM and naXys Institutes, the Physics and Chemistry Departments and the Namur Research College were delighted to welcome Prof. Jean-Luc Brédas from the University of Arizona. A prestigious speaker of international renown, Prof. Brédas completed his doctoral thesis with Prof. Jean-Marie André at the University of Namur.
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Positive Impact Rating 2023: UNamur joins the ranking of the most responsible business schools!
This is a first for UNamur: with encouraging results, it has been included in the prestigious Positive Impact Rating (PIR) ranking reserved for Business Schools worldwide! By being ranked in the third of the five PIR levels, UNamur is demonstrating its ability to meet societal challenges.
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"Enriching", "magnificent", "exciting": students are seduced by "BIP", a mobility programme
Noé, Méline and Romain are master’s students in management sciences and management engineering at UNamur. In spring 2023, they and five other students had the opportunity to spend a few days in Italy, at the Università Carlo Cattaneao near Milan. The exchange was organised as part of the Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) under the Erasmus + programme. Read their testimonials!
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UNamur researchers very successful in the F.R.S.- FNRS "Grants and Mandates" call
On 20 June 2023, the F.R.S.-FNRS published the list of winners of the various doctoral and post-doctoral mandates. Among them, 16 researchers from UNamur obtained funding.
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The European satellite Euclid launches on 1 July to map galaxies: UNamur involved in the mission
The European Euclid satellite will be launched into space from Cape Canaveral in the United States at 5.11pm on Saturday 1 July. The telescope is intended to provide a more accurate map of billions of galaxies over a distance of around twelve billion light years. A team of Belgian scientists and engineers from UCLouvain, ULB, ULg, UNamur and Ghent University, as well as the Space center in Liège (CSL), took part in this ten-year project, bringing together more than 3,500 people from 21 countries.
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Physics & Challenges, when physics meets sustainable development
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.
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Kevin Persoons, the new AGE president
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.
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Cybersecurity: Master students in Management develop three innovative solutions
A cyber-attack occurs every 39 seconds worldwide. And the commercial losses caused by cybercrime are estimated to exceed 5,000 billion dollars by 2024. At a time when the fight against this type of crime represents a fundamental challenge for society, the Master students in Management were challenged to find innovative solutions to raise awareness of cybersecurity among audiences identified as being vulnerable. It was a realistic and ambitious exercise, as the students had to work for a client: DNS Belgium, which administers the .be, .vlaanderen and .brussels domain names. Organised in the form of a challenge, the exercise was supervised by managers from DNS Belgium, IBM and academics from UNamur. Focus on the three winning projects!
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P. Zidda, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management
At the beginning of the academic year 2023, the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management will change its dean. Pietro Zidda will succeed Alain de Crombrugghe. This is an opportunity for this professor of marketing and management to talk about the projects and priorities of his next mandate. Interview.
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The long-term effects of pollution in our rivers, oceans and lakes
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.
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