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Professor Wim van de Donk appointed as Rector Magnificus and President of the Executive Board
17th January 2020Professor Wim van de Donk will become the new Rector Magnificus and President of the Executive Board of Tilburg University, effective October 1, 2020. He will thus succeed President Professor Koen Becking, who will then have reached the end of his second term of office, and Rector Professor Klaas Sijtsma, who held this position ad interim since September 1, 2019. The Board of Governors has decided this on the recommendation of the selection committee and having heard the University Council and the Deans. The appointment is for a period of four years.
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Create a social start-up at the Enactus National Competition
16th January 2020Do you want to create a social start-up and represent Tilburg University at the Enactus National Competition of social entrepeneurship? Contact Enactus on social media or drop by at their office.
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Tilburg University launches new Bachelor’s program aimed at entrepreneurship
06th January 2020The Tilburg School of Economics and Management starts with a new Bachelor’s program in September 2020: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. The new Bachelor’s is a unique academic degree program in the Netherlands that fully focuses on starting up new enterprises and stimulating innovation within existing companies or organizations. The business community and government authorities will be actively involved.
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Professor Wim van de Donk appointed as Rector Magnificus and President of the Executive Board
17th January 2020Professor Wim van de Donk will become the new Rector Magnificus and President of the Executive Board of Tilburg University, effective October 1, 2020. He will thus succeed President Professor Koen Becking, who will then have reached the end of his second term of office, and Rector Professor Klaas Sijtsma, who held this position ad interim since September 1, 2019. The Board of Governors has decided this on the recommendation of the selection committee and having heard the University Council and the Deans. The appointment is for a period of four years.
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Create a social start-up at the Enactus National Competition
16th January 2020Do you want to create a social start-up and represent Tilburg University at the Enactus National Competition of social entrepeneurship? Contact Enactus on social media or drop by at their office.
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Tilburg University launches new Bachelor’s program aimed at entrepreneurship
06th January 2020The Tilburg School of Economics and Management starts with a new Bachelor’s program in September 2020: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. The new Bachelor’s is a unique academic degree program in the Netherlands that fully focuses on starting up new enterprises and stimulating innovation within existing companies or organizations. The business community and government authorities will be actively involved.
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HRS Masterstudent Marjolein Karsmakers nominated for David van Lennep Thesis Prize
02nd January 2020Our masterstudent Marjolein Karsmakers has been nominated for the David van Lennep Thesis Prize. Her master thesis "The Impact of an Organizational Change Process on Employee Motivation: Evaluating Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness" has been submitted by her professors Prof. Dr. Rene Schalk & Dr. Charissa Freese, and is now in the running for winning this prize for exceptionally good master theses in the field of psychology of work, career and organization.
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Changed dates for registering for exams and calling exams for December 2019/January 2020
09th December 2019In connection with the collective closing days of the University from 25-12-2019 to 1-1-2020 there are changed dates with regard to registering for an exam and the call for an exam.
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Poetic soul, are you the new Campus Poet?
06th December 2019On Thursday January 30, Tilburg University will choose its Campus Poet 2020! Are you a Tilburg University staff member or student all year round in 2020, and do you want to poetically comment on campus life with your poetry for a whole year? Then sign up for the Campus Poet Election!
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Blue glasses, vibrating beds, and salads to stay fit during night shifts
05th December 2019How can nurses get through night shifts okay? Students of Tilburg University together with the Eindhoven Catharina Hospital are looking for a solution to this problem. They have mounted three experiments to see if these yield positive results: colored glasses, special beds for power naps, and healthy meals.
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Tilburg University Fund: €500.000 scholarship fund
03rd December 2019The Mariënburg Campus Fund will officially start on December 6! The amount of €500,000 is intended for scholarships.
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Thesis editing service Scribbr wins Oryx Award
28th November 2019Alumni Bas Swaen, Richard van Laak and Koen Driessen set up their company Scribbr in 2012. They had trouble finding someone to check their Master’s theses for a reasonable price. With Scribbr, students can easily and quickly have their thesis checked by professional editors. Scribbr does not write theses, but checks the language and structure of submitted texts.
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Keuzegids Universiteiten 2020: Six Tilburg University Bachelor’s programs rank # 1
27th November 2019Economics and Theology top programs according to Keuzegids
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Tilburg University’s ambitions for growth require extension of campus facilities
25th November 2019In its strategic plan, Tilburg University set out its ambitions to become a medium-sized university. Increasingly more students choose to study here. It is expected that the number of new students at our university will grow further. The prognosis suggests growth until 2025, after which student numbers are expected to stabilize. To accommodate these growing numbers of students, more lecture halls are required and other campus facilities need to be adapted as well.
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Program a robot at Science Lab
19th November 2019In addition to the successful DataCamp courses, you can now also sign up for Science lab! At the Science Lab, there are several computers and robots available that you can use. This is not a class or course: You are completely free to experiment with these robots and try things out that you think are interesting. Science Lab is for all students, regardless of whether they have prior knowledge of programming or not.
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Share your opinion on studying at Tilburg University
18th November 2019Invitation: share your opinion on studying at Tilburg University for a chance to win € 10,000! The survey only takes 5-10 minutes of your time. It is used as input for the Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Ranking. Thank you in advance for your time.
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Refill, reuse, reduce: super soaker student squad out on campus for one day
13th November 2019Be aware: Wednesday, November 13, a squad of students in black suits will be out on campus with some sort of super soakers on their back. Their message is simple and clear: don't buy a single-use plastic bottle whenever your thirsty, but get a reusable bottle and refill it instead!
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Student Information Event - Master's program Data Science and Entrepreneurship
07th November 2019Join our student information event. With our Master's program Data Science & Entrepreneurship starting in September - together with our Pre-Master's program in February and September - we'd like to give you the opportunity during this event to learn more about the program on November, 26.
