The Transitions Institute aims to explore the different ways in which transitions are challenging and affecting nature and human societies in unprecedented ways, requiring a radical shift in our previous political, social and ethical patterns.
The Institute's research focuses on areas of critical importance such as the environment, economics, politics, mobility, law, justice, social cohesion, development, education, protection against vulnerability, etc.

The Transitions Institute promotes interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary collaborative research around themes rather than disciplines, through a combination of methods, concepts and theories.
Thanks to their nationally and internationally recognized expertise (F.R.S.-FNRS, European Union, Federal State, Walloon Region, etc.), the members of the Transitions Institute develop "fundamental" research projects but also "action research" projects in the service of society.
Spotlight
Agenda
Seminar: Gathering the views of small children and informing them to engage their participation. Cross-disciplinary and cross-border perspectives
Gathering the views of children is at the heart of the Interreg Grande Région CAPACITI project. The United Nations reminds us that children's participation in the defense of their rights relies on the training of the adults who accompany them. However, very young children represent a different audience to apprehend and more particularly those who have not yet mastered language.
This seminar is aimed at researchers as well as (future) childcare professionals - educators, carers, childcare workers - who wish to question this issue and equip themselves to better listen to and include young children. Thanks to an interdisciplinary, cross-border approach, experts from the fields of psychology, pedagogy, law and the human sciences will share their knowledge and experience. This time of exchange will provide a better understanding of how to foster children's information and participation by adapting to their abilities and needs.
Annual Research Day
The use of AI in research: opportunities, challenges and concerns.

The program
2:00 pm | Keynote lecture on the use of AI in research - Hugues BERSINI, Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles: "Can science be just data driven?"
3:00 pm | Presentations by UNamur researchers
- 3:00 pm | Catherine Guirkinger: Use of AI in an economic history project
- 3:15 pm | Nicolas Roy (PI: Alexandre Mayer): AI at the service of innovation in photonics and optics: revealing the secrets of scrolls through the classification of animal species
- 15:25 | Nemanja Antonic (PI: Elio Tuci): An in silico representation of C. elegans collective behaviour
- <15h35 | Nicolas Franco : The benefits and dangers of "predicting the future" with covid-like machine learning models
- 15h45 | Michel Ajzen : Managerial and human implications of AI in organizations
- <15h55 | Robin Ghyselinck (PI : Bruno Dumas) : Deep Learning for endoscopy: towards next generation computer-aided diagnosis
- 4:05 pm | Auguste Debroise (PI : Guilhem Cassan) : LLMs to measure the importance of stereotypes within gender representations in Hollywood films
- 16h15 | Gabriel Dias De Carvalho : Learning practices in physics using generative AI
- 16h25 | Sébastien Dujardin (PI : Catherine Linard) : Where Geography meets AI: A case study on mapping online flood conversations
- 16h35 | Jeremy Dodeigne : LLMs in SHS: revolutionary tools in a Wild West Territory? Reflections on costs, transparency and open science
- 16h45 | Antoinette Rouvroy : Governing AI in Democracy
17h00 | Keynote lecture on ethics and guidelines to consider when using AI in research projects and writing research articles - Bettina BERENDT, Professor at KU Leuven
18h00 | Benoît Frenay and Michaël Lobet : Creation of an IA scientific committee at UNamur
18:10 | Drink
A certificate of attendance, worth 0.5 cross-disciplinary doctoral training credits, will be issued on request. Contact: secretariat.adre@unamur.be
This event is free of charge, but registration is required.