The "Credits & Projects" call resulted in 12 grants for ambitious new projects. These include two "equipment" grants, eight "research credits (CDR)" grants and two "research projects (PDR)" grants, including one in collaboration with ULB. The FRIA doctoral research support call will fund eleven doctoral scholarships, and the FRESH call, three.

Two prestigious Mandat d'Impulsion Scientifique (MIS) have also been secured. This 3-year funding supports young permanent researchers wishing to develop an original and innovative research program while acquiring scientific autonomy within their department.

Let's also mention the two projects funded under the "WelCHANGE" call for proposals; an instrument for funding research projects with potential societal impacts, led by a main promoter from the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Appel Equipment

• Xavier De Bolle, Institut Narilis, Co-sponsor in collaboration with UCLouvain
• Luca Fusaro, Institut NISM

Call for Research Credits (CDR)

• Marc Hennequart, Institut NARILIS
• Nicolas Gillet, Institut NARILIS
• Jean-Yves Matroule, Institut NARILIS
• Patricia Renard, Institut NARILIS
• Francesco Renzi, Institut NARILIS
• Stéphane Vincent, Institut NISM
• Laurence Meurant, Institut NaLTT
• Emma-Louise Silva, Institut NaLTT

Call for Research Projects (PDR)

• Jérémy Dodeigne, Institut Transitions, Co-promoter in collaboration with ULB
• Luc Henrard, Institut NISM; Co-promoter: Yoann Olivier, Institut NISM

Fonds pour la formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA)

• Emma Bongiovanni - Promoter: Catherine Michaux, Institut NISM
• Simon Chabot - Promoter: Carine Michiels, Institut Narilis; Co-promoter: Anne-Catherine Heuskin, Institut Narilis
• Lee Denis - Promoter: Muriel Lepère, Institut ILEE
• Maé Desclez - Promoter: Johan Yans, Institut ILEE; Co-promoter: Hamed Pourkhorsandi (University of Toulouse)
• Pierre Lombard - Promoter: Benoît Muylkens, Institut Narilis; Co-promoter: Damien Coupeau, Institut Narilis
• Amandine Pecquet - Promoter: Nicolas Gillet, Institut Narilis; Co-promoter: Damien Coupeau, Institut Narilis
• Kilian Petit - Promoter: Henri-François Renard, Institut Narilis; Co-promoter: Xavier De Bolle, Institut Narilis
• Simon Rouxhet - Promoter: Catherine Michaux, Institut NISM; Co-promoter: Nicolas Gillet, Institut Narilis
• William Soulié - Promoter: Yoann Olivier, Institut NISM
• Elisabeth Wanlin - Promoter: Xavier De Bolle, Institut Narilis
• Laura Willam - Promoter: Frédérik De Laender, Institut ILEE

Fonds pour la Recherche en Sciences Humaines (FRESH)

• Louis Droussin - Promoter: Arthur Borriello, Institut Transitions; Co-promoter: Vincent Jacquet, Institut Transitions
• Nicolas Larrea Avila - Promoter: Guilhem Cassan, Institut DeFIPP
• Victor Sluyters - Promoter: Wafa Hammedi, Institut NADI

Mandat d'Impulsion Scientifique (MIS)

• Charlotte Beaudart, Institut Narilis
• Eli Thoré Institut ILEE

Appel WelCHANGE

• Nathalie Burnay Institut Transitions, in collaboration with UCLouvain
• Catherine Guirkinger Institut DeFIPP

Congratulations to one and all!

Olivier Sartenaer's team: Doan Vu Duc, Maxime Hilbert, Charly Mobers, Olivier Sartenaer, Louis Halflants, Andrea Roselli, Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard, Eve-Aline Dubois.

"Several contingent factors enabled the creation of SPiN: the absence of a research structure specifically dedicated to these themes and the almost simultaneous arrival of four young philosophers of science. It's a bit like an alignment of the planets", explains Olivier Sartenaer.

At his side are Juliette Ferry-Danini (Faculty of Computer Science), Thibaut De Meyer (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters) and Gaëlle Pontarotti (Faculty of Science), who form the core of SPiN.

SPiN is part of a research dynamic committed to the heart of contemporary debates.

SPiN researchers explore a wide range of themes, against a backdrop of questioning our relationship to scientific knowledge. These include:

• the relationship between science and pseudoscience;
• reductionism in science;
• genetic determinism and heredity;
• medical ethics and public health (vaccinations, pandemics);
• ethology,
• perspectivism.

This research is carried out by an interdisciplinary team of teacher-researchers, doctoral students and post-docs from the various faculties of UNamur.

SPiN organizes weekly seminars devoted to current research in philosophy of science, as well as seminars linked to more specific themes: health, life sciences, cosmology and theories of emergence and reductionism in the natural sciences.

But SPiN is not limited to the academic sphere: the center intends to take these issues outside the university walls, through events and activities accessible to all. An inaugural event is already planned for next spring on a topical theme: mistrust in science. More info to come!

The Digital Sessions are an initiative launched by the NaDI, the digital research institute at UNamur. The latter brings together researchers from the Faculties of law, informatics and EMCP.

To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration, NaDI has launched a call for projects. One of the selected projects? Les Séances du Numérique, an original format in which fiction becomes the starting point for debate. Each meeting begins with a film screening, followed by an interdisciplinary conference on a digital-related social issue.

The ambition of these sessions is simple: to educate about digital issues through fiction, and to confront a variety of viewpoints.

This format extends the experience of the podcast Pop-Code already hosted by Anthony Simonofski and Benoît Vanderose, but with an added dimension: interdisciplinarity and direct exchange with the audience. After the film, everyone can question the experts and enrich the reflection.

Digital technology will be at the heart of future screenings, with a dynamic that is both collaborative and rooted in current affairs:

1. Fostering collaboration between several NaDI centers to bring disciplines into dialogue (as was the case at the first session with CRIDS and PReCISE).
2. Bouncing off themes linked to current events to guarantee the relevance of exchanges.

Four sessions will be offered per year, open to all, with one priority: reaching out to citizens. The films are there to give the event a cultural and scientific outreach.

Eventually, the team would like to diversify its formats: screenings in cinemas like Caméo, broadcasting series, even playconferences where we play a video game during the debate. The idea: to use fiction in all its forms to kick-start discussion.

• Fanny Barnabé, lecturer at CRIDS / NaDI
• Anne-Sophie Collard, professor at the EMCP Faculty
• Anthony Simonofski, professor at the EMCP Faculty
• Benoît Vanderose, professor at the Computer Science Faculty

In collaboration with the Knowledge Confluence and the Administration de la communication

The Informatics Europe network federates nearly 200 institutions in more than 30 European countries and brings together Europe's academic and research computing community, connecting more than 50,000 researchers in the fields of computing, information technology and digital sciences.

By joining this network, the Faculty of Informatics opens the door to:

• European collaborations on cutting-edge research projects;
• Exchanges of good teaching practice with partner institutions;
• Greater visibility on the international academic scene.

Meetings between network members will take the form of workshops organized by theme, as well as an annual general meeting. Each year, Informatics Europe also offers a summer school for IT students.

Informatics Europe network: https://www.informatics-europe.org

Institutional or faculty agreements established by UNamur with foreign partners:https://www.unamur.be/fr/international/reseaux-partenariats

The Faculty of Informatics: https://www.unamur.be/fr/info