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  • 18 December 2025
    New innovation pathways with StudentLabs: mark January 30, 2026 in your calendars!
    Organized in collaboration between The POD and OpenHub, this event is dedicated to companies that wish to collaborate with high-level students on concrete innovation projects as part of the upcoming edition of the Student Labs program.
  • 15 December 2025
    Virtual reality for a renewed and ecological city: a new project for the MiiL
    The project “Virtual Reality for a Renewed and Ecological City,” supported by the Interreg France–Wallonie–Vlaanderen programme, is led by the Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab (MiiL) of UCLouvain, the project’s lead partner, and explores the potential of immersive technologies as tools for decision-making support and dialogue around urban transformations related to climate, environmental, and societal challenges.
  • 10 December 2025
    UniMusea: a new scientific journal edited by Musée L and devoted to the study, interpretation and critical analysis of university collections
    Musée L, UCLouvain's university museum, is pleased to announce the opening of the call for contributions for the inaugural issue of its new scientific journal, UniMusea – Research and Practices on University Collections, devoted to the study, interpretation and critical analysis of university collections. This first issue will address the theme “Decolonising university collections? Challenges, issues and perspectives.”
  • 8 December 2025
    The BIOINFO platform is now responsible for managing the “Cluster-SSS” system
    It is an infrastructure designed for large-scale data storage, high-performance computing (HPC), and virtualization, dedicated to the research groups and technology platforms of UCLouvain’s Health Sciences Sector.
  • 4 December 2025
    When the lasers and mirrors of the LAS&O platform are used to confine hydrogen molecules in space
    An international team of physicists involving the University of Amsterdam, the University of Toruń (Poland) and UCLouvain has succeeded in confining hydrogen molecules within a laser beam. This experimental feat, which confirms a theoretical prediction that is 50 years old, has just been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
  • 2 December 2025
    Making statistics clear and simple : that’s also the aim of the SMCS
    Asking the right question before collecting data is the key to obtaining truly meaningful results
  • 25 November 2025
    SMCS winter school: artificial intelligence and machine learning in Python
    Master the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to boost your programming skills!
  • 25 November 2025
    Motion capture at LEMSC: from iron man to structural engineering
    The LEMSC technology platform has recently expanded its experimental setup with a new eight-camera motion capture system from Vicon. Known for bringing characters to life in movies and video games or to study the human body, motion capture is now being used at iMMC to track and analyze the 3D movement of civil engineering structures.
  • 15 October 2025
    WELCOME is now equipped with an ultra-precise thermoreflectance system
    As part of a partnership with Microsanj, the Welcome technology platform now hosts a state-of-the-art thermoreflectance tool, integrated into a probe-based measurement system.
  • 17 September 2025
    Offshore wind turbines: LEMSC puts their foundations to the test of time
    LEMSC developed and tested a system that pushed two offshore wind turbine foundation piles to their breaking point.