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Older updates concerning coronavirus
25th February 2020On this page you will find previous updates about the coronavirus.
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Carnival: A reversal of roles
18th February 2020Just a few more days and it is here again, the festival that makes all other festivities pale by comparison, the Mother of all Festivals: Carnival. One half of the Netherlands is horrified by the idea of dressing up, boozing and puking for three days straight; the other half saves up for it all year. For northerners, next week is a week like any other; southerners are getting ready for an orgy of feasting and celebration.
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Alexandros Perdikes wins trade union prize with thesis on the right to strike
17th February 2020Alumnus Alexandros Perdikes of Tilburg Law School has won the academic Master’s thesis prize of De Burcht, the research bureau of the Dutch trade union movement, with his Master’s thesis, entitled Solidarity Unionism and the Right to Strike.
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# Real contact: Tilburg University contributes to responsible digital use
13th February 2020To draw attention to the urgency and importance of real contact, dozens of organizations, including Tilburg University, join forces with the #echtcontact (#realcontact) action. On Friday, February 14, various activities will take place including a slow date living room with famous Dutch people at Utrecht Central station.
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TEDx talk Ellen Dreezens: how to support the grieving child
13th February 2020Children who live in a family that has to deal with loss and grief often tend to hide away their own mourning. Dr. Ellen Dreezens, psychologist and mourning coach, shows how an related adult can give a child in such a situation the space to just be itself again for a while. She spoke about this during TED talk Breda.
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2019 Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence for TSHD dean Boudewijn Haverkort
10th February 2020Dean TSHD co-awarded Harvey Rosten Award for Paper 'A Generic Processor Temperature Estimation Method'
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NWO grant for development of advanced tool moderating complex discussions on debate sites
07th February 2020Grant for Prof. Emiel Kramer's research project developing a tool to moderate complex internet platform discussions.
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Labor migration in North-Brabant: here to stay
07th February 2020The presence of labor migrants forms a structural component of the Brabant labor market. That is an important finding of a report on the provincial labor market that has just been published.
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Early Career Impact Award for Neil Cohn
06th February 2020Assistant Professor Neil Cohn of TSHD (Department of Communication and Cognition) received the Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations of Brain and Behavioral Sciences and Cognitive Science Society last month.
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Tilburg University launches Sustainability Factory
03rd February 2020The President of the Tilburg University Executive Board, Koen Becking, has launched the Sustainability Factory on February 3: it is the university’s ‘green office’, that stimulates sustainability initiatives by both students and staff. On that occasion, he also signed a document pledging the university’s commitment to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Symposium and book presentation on the judiciary's independence
31st January 2020On February 5th Tilburg Law School and the T.M.C. Asser Institute are launching the first volume of the European Yearbook of Constitutional Law. It's subject is current threats to the judiciary’s independence, which seem to exist both in the Netherlands and beyond.
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The Netherlands misses out on € 1-2.5 billion in corporate income tax revenues each year
31st January 2020What amounts of taxes are being avoided ? That is the central question in Professor Arjan Lejour’s inaugural address at Tilburg University on February 7. Lejour has studied the extent of the tax avoidance by the business sector. His conclusion is that the Netherlands probably misses out on € 1 to 2.5 billion on corporate income tax revenue every year.
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Proud of our Grant Winners
23rd January 2020On Thursday, January 23, we celebrated grant success with a large number of our 2019 Grant Winners at Tilburg University during the Grant winners' lunch with the Rector and a delegation from our Grant Support team.
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More equal distribution of wealth makes people happier
23rd January 2020Since the liberalization of the Western economies in the 1980s and 1990s, income inequality has increased dramatically. In the public debate, the question arises how this inequality impacts societies and what role it plays in the functioning of the economy. Bjorn Lous has studied this issue, based on the question: How do the various aspects of economic freedom relate to (inequality of) life satisfaction and trust through their relationship with income inequality? His most important conclusion is that when only few people profit from a high average income, this negatively affects the life satisfaction of societies as a whole. He will defend his PhD thesis on this subject at Tilburg University on Friday, January 31.
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TOP Winter Week 2020 in Tilburg
20th January 2020TOP Winter Week is the introduction week for all the new students who will start their second semester at Tilburg University. More than 400 new international students, who will start their studies at Tilburg University in February, will be introduced to Dutch culture and the city of Tilburg this week. TOP Winter Week will take place from January 21 to January 24, 2020, in the Tilburg city center. Particular attention will be devoted to Tilburg's hotspots, sports facilities, and cultural centers in this week. In short, it is the best way for new students to start their adventure in Tilburg.
