P. Zidda, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Management

• Experience or how we can delight our relationship with the faculty, learn from our mistakes to create positive experiences,
• Excellence or how we make sure that everyone can explore the field of possibilities, develop their skills to the fullest and make the faculty grow in an effective and efficient way
• Well-being or how we make our professional/student sphere a place of personal fulfilment, in a real professional-private balance and in healthy, frank and transparent relationships
• Ecology, or how we rethink our way of working and interacting with each other, in order to be part of a sustainable and responsible operating model, both environmentally and socially
• Commitment or how, on the basis of the other 4 E's, we create loyalty, enthusiasm and even passion for our Faculty and our University, which we spread and share internally and externally.

Fields of action for which the projects can only be positive, constructive and ... ambitious.

The 5Es are both research and teaching. Research is now done in the University's research institutes. Of course, researchers are often physically attached to a faculty, hence the importance of working together with the presidents of the institutes, namely, as far as my faculty is concerned, DeFFiP, IRDENa, NaDI, naxys and Transitions. I will therefore ensure that researchers have the best possible working environment and create a stimulating environment for the development of quality research. In terms of teaching, even if we have already done a lot, particularly in the area of success assistance or the development of our "Learning by doing" reform, we still have some major challenges to face: the follow-up of students throughout their course, and even beyond, and in particular the problem of drop-outs and drop-outs, curricular approaches, hybridization, the judicious use of technologies and modern teaching approaches to engage students in their learning, the bridges between research and teaching, pillars of a university education, to be strengthened or even developed from the beginning of the course ... without forgetting the success rate which in baccalaureate still remains and will continue to be problematic. I dream of an education where excellence is not achieved at the expense of the success of the greatest number of students...

The Faculty of Economic, Social and Management Sciences is built on a federal model. The four departments, which are Economics, Management Sciences, Political, Social and Communication Sciences and the Staggered Timetable in Economics and Management, form the backbone of the faculty and that is where its heart beats. I see my role, or rather my roles, as those of modern, responsible managers, namely leader (in the motivational sense of the term), liaison officer, active observer and spokesperson externally, disseminator internally, but also intrapreneur, regulator and distributor of resources, all in the service of others. Quite a programme ...

Passion, in what we do, ambition, in what we want to achieve together, benevolence and respect for everyone, in what we share.

Thank you, Alain, thank you a thousand times over for your availability, for listening and for your involvement during not one but two terms of office! The projects that you have tirelessly initiated or supported (such as "learning by doing", a major reform of our teaching, or the in-depth reorganisation of our administrative services or even our future faculty building) already place our faculty in the modern era and will of course be at the heart of my own mandate. On behalf of our faculty community, I would like to thank you again and wish you all the best in your new position.

The students are at the heart of our profession, they are our joy, our pride and sometimes our sadness. The 5Es concern them first and foremost. I would tell them to get involved with us again and again in the development of their, our faculty. By working together, in a frank, creative and constructive way, we will make it shine both at UNamur and outside our walls.