Collaboration
Tilburg University is right at the heart of society. We share our knowledge and work together on research, innovation, and solutions to challenges that society is faced with. We can work together in all kinds of different ways: with individual researchers, within institutes, within research programs, in courses and in partnerships, and of course with our students.
More than 10% of the university’s revenues come from collaboration with others
Our scientists and scholars share their knowledge in newspapers, in magazines, on radio- and TV shows, and on the Internet
organized monthly to offer collaboration a platform
Collaboration with scientists and scholars
Collaboration with scientists and scholars can take place via contract research.
Collaboration with students
Each year, some 4000 students graduate from our university and start looking for a job. In preparing for their careers, they are often look for traineeships, or places where they can finish their studies. Out Career Portal offers a platform for companies, organizations, and students to come into contact with each other.
Institutes and Partnerships
Tilburg University has a number of platforms for collaboration and more than 40 research institutes. Besides this, we are very active on other platforms, both in our region and beyond.
- JADS data science community in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
- Tilburg University Society connects the worlds of public administration, politics, business, and science.
- Impact program working together on the challenges facing individuals and society in the 21st century

“Passport4Work is an innovation that benefits jobseekers as well as employers.”
- Eindhoven alderman Yasin Torunoglu on collaboration with ten chain partners in the job market innovation project
Collaboration in education
Increasingly, our educational programs too are set up in collaboration with others. In teacher training, for instance, we work closely together with Ons Middelbaar Onderwijs (OMO) (an association of secondary schools located mainly in the province of North Brabant), the data science program is a collaboration between us and the Eindhoven University of Technology, and more and more Extended Master’s programs are set up in collaboration with the business world.
Why work together with Tilburg University?
- Benefit from scientific research and scientific research methods
- Connect science with daily practice
- Together with us, work on Science that Matters!
Work on our spearheads together with us
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Empowering the Resilient Society
Resilience: Our society faces issues whose consequences are difficult to oversee.
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Enhancing Health and Wellbeing
Health & Wellbeing: To actually improve health and well-being, we must make decisions that are also beneficial in the long term.
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Creating Value from Data
How to guarantee reliability and responsible use of data?
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Visit our conferences and symposiums
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09:00 - 18:00
Economic Business weeks Tilburg
April 6 until 23, 2020 | The Economic Business weeks Tilburg (EBT) is the largest career event of Tilburg University and one of the largest on-campus recruitment events in The Netherlands. The event annually brings more than 1,500 students of every field of study in Economics, Management and Behavioral Sciences in contact with over 90 companies operating within all sorts of sectors.
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09:30 - 17:00
Joint Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2021
On Thursday 17th and Friday 18th of June 2021, Tilburg University, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), the University of Trento, and the Otto-Friedrich University (Bamberg) will organize the fourth Joint Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.
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To be announced
European Group of Process Tracing Studies (EGPROC) annual meeting 2020
The 2020 EGPROC meeting consists of a one-day symposium and a two-day workshop, focusing on process tracing in judgment and decision making research. In the symposium, we aim to invite speakers to discuss merits and challenges of different process tracing tools, and the future potential lying in their integration. In the subsequent workshop, current work relating to human decision makers introduced by researchers from diverse backgrounds and career levels will be discussed.
Need help finding the right portal?
Are you interested in collaboration with the university but still looking for the right portal? We understand that the university will come across as a complex organization, and we are more than happy to help you along. If you answer a number of questions for us, we will very quickly be able to determine the best way to do that.