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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.” 

At UNamur, a doctoral thesis led by Juliette Liégeois—with support from SPW Recherche as part of the Win4Doc program—aims to modernize the automated production of radiotracers used, in particular, to diagnose certain cancers and other diseases. Called SMART, the project is being developed in collaboration with Synlock, a company that designs synthesis robots for academic and industrial laboratories.

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.