Understanding Society

Tilburg University has been a reliable provider of high-quality education and research for more than eighty years. We specialize in the social sciences and humanities and we seek to make a structural contribution to society.

Program Academic Year Opening 2012-2013


3.30 p.m. Welcome by Philip Eijlander
3.35 p.m. Speech Bernard Wientjes (president VNO-NCW): ‘Universiteit en Ondernemerschap’
4.00 p.m. Dissertation prize
4.10 p.m. Musical interlude by Wouter Smits
4.25 p.m. Farewell speech by Hein van Oorschot
4.45 p.m. Speech by Ruud Lubbers
4.55 p.m. Closure by Philip Eijlander
5.00 p.m. End of academic session
Farewell reception for Hein van Oorschot
7.00 p.m. End of reception