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NUMEDIART exhibits at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Beaubourg, Paris
Several installations will be demonstrated at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (127-129, Rue Saint-Martin – 75004 Paris), from sept 23rd to Oct 23rd, in a exhibition co-organized by CWB, the TWIST industrial cluster, and NUMEDIART.

EU FP7 ILHAIRE project - Incorporating Laughter into Human Avatar Interactions: Research and Experiments, 2011-2014
The UMONS Research Center in Information Technologies and Numediart Institute for New Media Art Technology are coordinating the ILHAIRE european research project, starting in September 2011.

EU FP7 LinkedTV project - Television Linked To The Web, 2011-2015
The UMONS Research Center in Information Technologies takes part in the LinkedTV european research project, starting in October 2011. LinkedTV is supported under the Networked Media and Search Systems strategic objective of the 7th framework program for research of the European Union.

Six new Doctors Honoris Causa for UMONS
This Wednesday, 11 May 2011, the University of Mons awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to six personalities, including Fred and Jamy from the TV science magazine "C'est pas sorcier!")

UMONS chemist in the World’s Top 100 for 2000-2010
Jerome Cornil, from the “Chemistry of novel materials” dept. is the only Belgian among the World’s Top 100 chemists who have achieved the highest citation impact scores for chemistry papers during the past decade.

UMONS has been awarded the “HR Excellence in Research” label
The University of Mons is the second institution in the French Community to be awarded this European recognition. It is committed to supporting the mobility of its researchers.

Numediart and its researchers at the service of Ghinzu… and Mamemo
With its technological know-how the Institute created in 2010 by the University of Mons helped the Belgian rock group Ghinzu shoot its latest video clip and the Belgian children’s TV show Mamemo make its cartoons.

10 years of high-end research at Materia Nova and Multitel
The two research centres resulting from UMONS celebrate their ten years of existence. Nearly 150 researchers work there in the fields of new materials, environmental technologies, telecommunications, the signal and image processing.

How are brain convolutions and assembly lines formed?
A team of researchers from UMONS and ENS Paris have just deciphered this mystery by proposing a common process in these apparently different phenomena.

Muhammad Yunus, Docteur Honoris Causa of UMONS, conferred degrees in Microfinance
Monday, 18 October 2010, at the Warocqué Faculty of Economics and Management, Prof. Muhammad Yunus handed out certificates to about thirty students in Microfinance who just earned their Advanced Master's degree. He then received the title of Honorary Doctor of UMONS at an official ceremony before giving a conference at the Royal Theatre in the evening.

Partnership between UMONS and Huazhong University of Science and Technology
UMONS and Huazhong University of Science and Technology signed a convention on June 22nd, in China, aiming at promoting scientific collaboration and the exchange of students, researchers and instructors, with first applications in IT and telecommunications.