News Academic Collaborative Center Inclusive Labor Market

• Kick-off symposium Academic Collaborative Center for an Inclusive Labor Market

  22nd April 2024

  On April 15, this kick-off symposium took place at the LocHal in Tilburg. The symposium served as an initial meeting of various societal partners with researchers from Tilburg University. Together, they explored the challenges and opportunities for achieving an inclusive labor market that works for everyone and how scientific research can contribute to this. This event was the first step towards the initiative’s research and impact agenda.

  

• Blog: Building a Tilburg that works

  05th April 2024

  On Wednesday evening, March 20, a lecture and panel discussion on broad prosperity and the labor market took place in the council chamber of Tilburg City Hall. This was the third meeting within the Tilburg 2050 series on the future of the city.

  

• Different disciplines meet during matchmaking event

  19th March 2024

  On March 7, the Digital Sciences for Society strategic program, in collaboration with TAISIG and the university-wide Academic Collaborative Centers, organized a matchmaking event. Researchers from the various Schools explored opportunities for research collaboration at the intersection of the digital sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

  

• “Moderate population growth best for maintaining broad prosperity"

  01st February 2024

  The Government Committee on Demographic Developments 2050 has issued a recommendation to the government and the House of Representatives on demographic developments, in particular aging and migration, until at least 2050, held against the light of broad prosperity. Tilburg University's Academic Collaborative Centers contributed to this advice through working visits to Brainport Eindhoven and Parkstad Limburg.

  

• Video: Prosperity or Wellbeing – Dies Natalis 2023

  28th November 2023

  The theme of Tilburg University's 96th Dies Natalis was 'Experiencing Broad Prosperity'. At the end of the ceremony, Prof dr. Antoinette de Bont and Prof. Dr. Lex Meijdam gave the presentation "Prosperity or wellbeing: why broader is better." Watch the video of their presentation.

  

• Tilburg University puts strategic focus on Broad Prosperity

  06th October 2023

  There can only be broad prosperity if it is actively stimulated, and that is why Tilburg University has embedded this aspiration as a strategic focus in its Broad Prosperity program. This strategic framework helps the university to contribute to the societal transitions that are necessary for a sustainable, inclusive, and just society. The program is being implemented in close collaboration with the government, businesses, citizen representation groups, other knowledge institutions, and civic organizations and networks.

  

• Students debate about how private and public can strengthen each other in the job market

  11th April 2023

  On 15 March, second-year Bachelor’s students in Bestuurskunde (Public Administration) from Tilburg University debated with professionals and organisations on shaping the employment agency of the future.