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Prof. Hans Gribnau winner of Jaap van den Berge Literature Prize of Stichting NLFiscaal
03rd December 2021Tax Law Professor Hans Gribnau has been awarded the Jaap van den Berge Literature Prize. This prize, initiated by the Stichting NLFiscaal, is yearly awarded to an author who has contributed significantly to the legal development of tax law.
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PhD Defense Mr. R. Jansen - Legal Privilege and transnational evidence-taking
03rd December 2021A comparative study on taking of documents abroad during litigation, the possibilities to shop for evidence and the various rules on legal privilege.
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VIA AUGUSTA proposal ‘Leveraging the potential of a System-of-Systems approach to infrastructure management’ granted by NWO/NGinfra
02nd December 2021Wendy van der Valk, together with Henk Akkermans and Carol Ou (TiSEM), Saskia Lavrijssen and Martijn Groenleer (TLS) have been awarded a grant by NWO/NGInfra for their VIA AUGUSTA project proposal. It is aimed at working towards an integrated vision on how to equip the Dutch infrastructure of the future.
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Dutch Human Rights Ambassador Bahia Tahzib-Lie calls for dialogue in education
02nd December 2021On International Human Rights Day on December 10th, the Dutch Human Rights Ambassador, Bahia Tahzib-Lie, will call for an intergenerational dialogue on human rights with young people at the center. She will deliver the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Lecture at Tilburg University.
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Outgoing Professor Ernst Hirsch Ballin: ‘We must continue to speak out against injustice’
30th November 2021Professor of constitutional and administrative law and former minister, Ernst Hirsch Ballin bids farewell to the university and looks back on his work, in which human rights were central.
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Scientists and politicians ask for WHO and EU support for vaccinations in Africa
29th November 2021International scientists and leaders ask a global response of collaboration with Africa on COVID-19 following the omicron outbreak. In a letter, an initiative of Professors Mirjam van Reisen en Ronald de Jong, they ountline a plan of world support for low income countries especially in Africa.
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Student Mick van der Spoel wins Philips AI thesis award for brain tumor research
25th November 2021On November 29, student Mick van der Spoel receives the Philips Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Health Care thesis award for his brain tumor research.
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Unilever Research Prize 2021 for research into greed and buying behavior
24th November 2021Economic psychology student Vanessa Rettkowski has won the Unilever Research Prize 2021 with her master thesis on greed and buying behavior.
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How can we achieve energy transition in the neighborhood?
24th November 2021Between 2017 and 2020, Martijn Groenleer and Petra Hofman of Tilburg University worked on a regional research, learning and experimentation project called Social Innovation Labs Energy Neutral Housing Stock (SMILE). View the results here.
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Development of New Knowledge House for Social Work
23rd November 2021In 2020, Prof. Dr. Tine Van Regenmortel, Professor at Tranzo and coordinator of the Academic Collaborative Center Social Work, was involved in the development of the Knowledge and Research Agenda Social Work. This research agenda has been a trigger for the development of a Knowledge House for Social Work. Social Work Netherlands and Movisie, among others, are currently working hard on this.
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Customization required in tackling criminal families
22nd November 2021The 'hard' approach towards criminal families of repression, disruption and repossession is still too little aligned with the 'soft' approach of prevention, assistance, training, social work and health care. This is the conclusion of researchers from EMMA - Experts in Media and Society, and Tilburg University in the book 'Intervening in criminal families'.
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Catholic evangelization can renew by focusing more on serving people
22nd November 2021For evangelization in times of secularization, it is of great importance to choose a new path that serves people with needs, says Professor Jan Loffeld, who will deliver his oration on this subject on Friday, November 26.
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Delay laws on firearms purchases save lives
22nd November 2021Legislation that enforces a ‘cooling off’ period between purchasing and acquiring a firearm reduces impulse purchases. It also limits the number of homicides, especially in the domestic sphere. This is demonstrated by behavioral economist David Schindler of Tilburg University on the basis of a quantitative study in various U.S. States. The publication will appear in the renowned scientific journal Review of Economics and Statistics.
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Buskers earn more on Sundays
22nd November 2021For hundreds of years, buskers (street musicians) have been earning money performing in busy public areas. Now, the first-ever large-scale study has explored which factors determine listeners’ giving behavior. A field study of 80,471 consumers and 72 buskers, conducted by the Tilburg researcher Samuel Stäbler and Kim Katharina Mierisch (a consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners), yields surprising results.
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Reactions to Climate Change Summit COP26: Too little, too late, small steps only
17th November 2021Will the climate change deal of COP26 get us anywhere? Tilburg researchers agree that the results do not match the urgency of the problems, that are getting bigger and bigger. After examining the small print, they have discovered a few bright spots: procedures have been agreed to keep countries more focused. However, the Dutch government and the EU need to make every effort, and soon, too. The problem of climate change can only be solved collectively.
