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Global Law Bachelor students win Comparative Law in Action Competition
15th April 2021Tilburg Law School’s Global Law Team has won the IE Univeristy Comparative Law in Action Competition overall as well as the best group oralist award.
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Vici grant for econometrician Johan van Leeuwaarden: Balancing load in the 'cloud'
14th April 2021Prof. Johan van Leeuwaarden (dept. Econometrics & Operations Research) has been awarded an NWO Vici grant for research into algorithms in the 'cloud'. The Vici grant amounts to 1.5 million euros. He will develop new algorithms that let us find quickly a short queue in enormous data centers.
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Zero Hunger Lab and World Food Programme win prestigious Franz Edelman Award
14th April 2021Tilburg University’s Zero Hunger Lab in co-creation with World Food Programme (WFP) has won the Franz Edelman Award, the world’s most prestigious award for achievement in the practice of analytics and operations research.
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Jaap Paauwe to receive Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award
13th April 2021Jaap Paauwe, em. professor Organization and HR Management (TSB), is the first non-American to receive the Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award, which is given annually to an individual who has distinguished herself/himself in the mentoring of PhD students.
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Queen Máxima pays online working visit to StudentinzetopSchool
13th April 2021Her Majesty Queen Máxima pays an online working visit to the national platform of StudentinzetopSchool on Tuesday afternoon, April 13. The platform, in which Tilburg University also participates, deploys students from higher education to lend a helping hand to pupils in their final year of secondary education and their teachers in corona times.
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Zero Hunger Lab and WFP finalists in Franz Edelman Award
12th April 2021Proudly we announce that our Tilburg University’s Zero Hunger Lab in co creation with World Food Programme (WFP) is finalist in the Franz Edelman Award, the world’s most prestigious award for achievement in the practice of analytics and operations research.
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TSHD Selection “PhDs in the Humanities” 2021
07th April 2021This year, TSHD has again been invited to submit PhD proposals for the NWO program “PhDs in the Humanities”. After the first assessment round, the TSHD selection committee invited 6 of the candidates to pitch their proposal. Based on this pitch session, 3 proposals were nominated for assessment by the NWO jury.
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Parents' care for kids with type 1 diabetes
07th April 2021Parents of children with type 1 diabetes struggle with the question of whether and how their child is able to gradually take over his/her own diabetes care. The condition requires the necessary care, knowledge, skills and discipline to prevent complications. Jori Aalders investigates the question in his thesis "Whose diabetes is it anyway". PhD Defence April 7.
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Closing vaccine borders provides a false sense of security. Enabling global flows allows vaccine supply chains to deliver more vaccines to all.
06th April 2021Read the article by Jan Fransoo and Prashant Yadav at the OECD Forum Network.
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Professor Antoinette de Bont appointed as Dean of Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
01st April 2021The new dean for Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) has been appointed: Prof. Dr. Antoinette de Bont, currently working as professor of Sociology of Innovations in Care at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management in Rotterdam.
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Podcast BBC with Arie Trouwborst: On how to coax cats to harm wildlife less
01st April 2021Cats are blamed for killing an estimated 100million prey in the UK each year. Miranda Krestovnikoff of BBC Radio 4 looks at the research to see how they might be coaxed to harm wildlife less. Environmental law researcher Arie Trouwborst is on the show.
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Easter under the cloud of corona: a story’s power
01st April 2021Can Easter enlighten us to keep hope in times of corona? Professor Bart Koet connects the story of Easter to other narratives in history.
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Too many legal obstacles to address human rights abuses at mega-sporting events
01st April 2021Virtually every international mega-sporting event comes with human rights abuses. But to hold all contributing actors responsible, parallel proceedings under various legal systems need to be initiated which is highly inefficient and allows for those responsible to escape their responsibility.
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AI in Machine Translations, the Labour Market and Education
29th March 2021On Thursday, March 18, 2021, the second edition of the TAISIG Talks took place. TAISIG is the Tilburg University Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group: a research community committed to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Eva Vanmassenhove, Patricia Prüfer and Max Louwerse shared their insights.
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Patient’s involvement crucial for successful rehabilitation with severe mental illness
29th March 2021For successful rehabilitation of patients with severe mental illness, it is crucial that they feel heard and they get to determine their own goals together with their care taker. Within the mental healthcare system, this asks for sufficient time and attention. This is evident from doctoral research by Sarita Sanches (Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences/Tranzo). She will defend her PhD thesis on April 7, 13.30, at Tilburg University.
