Overview articles Tilburg University Magazine
Tilburg University Magazine is an online magazine about Tilburg University's education and research and the impact these have on society. The magazine connects the university with its alumni and relations from the world of business, politics, and social organizations.
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Listen to the science podcast about Europe
In Science Quest, the Tilburg University Podcast, scientists seek answers to questions about people and society that concern us all. From war to peace. From climate to your wallet, from care to organization and from big data to dating. Our own experts discuss the newest, funniest and most talked-about insights from their own research.
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Blossoming love between different student association members: Divided loyalties?
Many loves have their origins on campus, though not all of them last. Some campus couples are still together to this day. Towards the university's 100th anniversary, we collect their love stories. Anne (40) studied Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University and joined student association Plato, Hein (38) opted for International Business and Olof. Not an obvious match perhaps, but perhaps it was all written in the stars?
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“I want to give back to the world everything I have received”
Iranian alumna Negin Mirzaghavam successfully completed her Master's degree in Data Science and Society at Tilburg University in August 2023 on a scholarship granted by the Tilburg University Fund. "Without the scholarship, I would not have had the opportunity to pursue this degree program. It is thanks to other people’s generosity that I am standing here now."
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The warehousification of the Dutch landscape: Tentative solutions
Everyone has an opinion on the big box distribution centers that have sprung up in many places in the Netherlands. But how many are there, how much space do they actually take up, and how does this relate to economic benefit and sustainability? Angela Acocella has conducted research, together with Frans Cruijssen and Jan Fransoo, into the arguments based on data relating to, among other things, inventory levels, markets served, and locations. The researchers make four recommendations.
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science: "This is the moment to pave the way for women in science"
The 11th of February is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day established by the United Nations in 2015 to promote gender equality in science and highlight the important role of women and girls in science. After nine years, the continued necessity of this day is evident from the statistics provided by the 2023 Female Professors Monitor (Monitor Vrouwelijke Hoogleraren 2023). The growth in the number of female professors is plateauing.
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‘We had 013 engraved in our wedding rings’: World couple Bas and Nikki share their love story
Many loves have their origins on campus, though not all of them last. Some campus couples are still together to this day. Towards the university's 100th anniversary, we collect their love stories. From southern Limburg to Tilburg for your studies. And from working and traveling in Australia to putting down roots in Amsterdam. Bas and Nikki Hamers look back on their days as students in Tilburg, where they found love, and on their adventures in the years that followed.
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The use of green hydrogen and the chicken-and-egg problem: how the law can solve it
How do we move away from the use of fossil fuels towards climate neutrality? Sustainable hydrogen has great potential but is not widely available yet, nor are we ready to use it. Law scholar Max Baumgart of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and society (TILT) is investigating how to stimulate markets for sustainable hydrogen as well as innovation by means of rules and regulations.
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The brand-new Marga Klompé building: Creativeness, sustainability, and an eye for the environment
On January 29, 2024, we will proudly inaugurate the Marga Klompé building. The lecture halls and study places offer space for approximately 1,000 students. The largest of the fourteen lecture halls seats 450. We are looking forward eagerly to the inspiration and creativeness which this brand-new building will offer students and staff.
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Impact Award 2023 for “the pillar and the post” of legal tax aid
The Child-Care Allowance affair is still fresh in memory, but Professor of Legal Protection Diana van Hout had long before trained her sights on an underlying, more fundamental problem. In 2018, she took the first step towards filling a gap in legal protection: legal tax aid for people who cannot afford it. And in 2022, SOFiR, the Stichting Ondersteuning Fiscale Rechtshulp (the Legal Tax Aid Support Foundation), was born. It won van Hout the Tilburg University Impact Award 2023.
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How unnecessary paper creates the illusion of sustainability
Many products are wrapped in multiple layers of material, generating huge amounts of packaging waste. Tilburg University researcher Tatiana Sokolova found that unnecessary paper packaging creates the illusion of sustainability, because paper is perceived by consumers as environmentally friendly—even when it’s doing more harm than good. “Objective and perceived sustainability are not necessarily the same thing.”
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Arie Trouwborst: "We need to return a lot of space to nature"
In "Time to Talk & Think", the choice is yours: will you go for a short update to get up to speed on the latest news, a longer article to dive deeper into the subject or are you "all ears" and want to know all about it? Read more about Arie Trouwborst's interesting research in the run-up to his inaugural address on January 26.
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From Peru to Tilburg and from Argentina to Paris: Chiarella is preparing for the Olympic Games
Combining studies or work with a top-level sports career: the Tilburg University community boasts a lot of top sports talent. In The Road to Paris, we share stories of these talents on their journey to the Olympic Games in 2024. Today the story of our Peruvian student Florencia Chiarella Salas (20). She won the 2021 Youth Sailing World Championships. In 2022, she came in fifth in the under-21 Youth World Championships.