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This Friday was the first symbolic stone of the Trakk. The former sports hall of the University of Namur has moved and is being renovated to make room for the creative hub that will be one of the Walloon locomotives for innovation. So much so that other cities have tried to attract him to them. And that the Minister of the Economy, Pierre-Yves Jeholet, moved for this launch of construction.
But the TRAKK, currently installed a little further in the avenue Reine Astrid in Salzinnes, will stay in Namur, a stone's throw from the city center, which is very close to the heart of its initiator, Gilles Bazelaire. " I am urban in nature and delighted that these buildings help create activity in the city center to support animation, commerce and security, including ", says the one who is at the origin of the KIKK festival, another flagship of the Namur and Walloon innovation
The renovation of the TRAKK started a few weeks ago and will continue until spring 2019 so that the installation can be done next summer and the inauguration in September 2019. The planned transformations take into account the collaborative nature of the work that will be done there: open spaces facilitating co-creation, workstations of all styles with sofas, stools, high or low tables. The 2,000 m2 space will have three floors and as many terraces, 120 workstations, fifteen private offices, two coworking spaces, six meeting rooms, an amphitheater, a fab lab, a cafeteria and a relaxation area (chill-
This major project, the first of which started in 2014, has benefited, among others, from the Feder Fund, which allows its three-way expansion with the KIKK, the provincial economic office and UNamur. The watchword is: decompartmentalize disciplines to bring out new projects. His move to a larger space will allow TRAKK to meet even more entrepreneurs, students, researchers, individuals …) and bring out projects in the service of the inhabitants of Namur and beyond
Magali Veronesi
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