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Take part in the National Student Survey 2022
19th January 2022There is no one in a better position than you to evaluate your university and degree program. You can participate in the National Student Survey until March 13, 2022!
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Awareness Week - (online) security & privacy
17th January 2022In the week of January 31, Tilburg University makes its employees and students aware of cyber security threats. Therefore, this week Library & IT Services draws attention to tips on online safety and your privacy.
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TOP Winter Week welcomes students online
13th January 2022The introduction week for students who start their studies at Tilburg University in February will take place online this year. The TOP Winter Week will be from Tuesday, January 25 through Thursday, January 27, 2022.
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Take part in the National Student Survey 2022
19th January 2022There is no one in a better position than you to evaluate your university and degree program. You can participate in the National Student Survey until March 13, 2022!
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Awareness Week - (online) security & privacy
17th January 2022In the week of January 31, Tilburg University makes its employees and students aware of cyber security threats. Therefore, this week Library & IT Services draws attention to tips on online safety and your privacy.
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Mart about going on exchange
17th January 2022“If I had not received a scholarship, I would not have gotten so much out of his exchange experience.” Economics student Mart was the recipient of a Holland Scholarship for his trip to Seoul, South Korea, where he took courses at Konkuk University. Read about his experience. The next registration deadlines are on February 3 and April 1.
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TOP Winter Week welcomes students online
13th January 2022The introduction week for students who start their studies at Tilburg University in February will take place online this year. The TOP Winter Week will be from Tuesday, January 25 through Thursday, January 27, 2022.
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Community of 20,000: new artwork on campus
10th January 2022There is a brand new artwork on display on our campus! It is made in honor of the 20,000th student at Tilburg University. For the project, 100 students were photographed, they symbolize our campus community.
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Entrepreneurship Day Brabant
05th January 2022A series of events where inspiring entrepreneurial topics are discussed and interesting companies will be interviewed. These events are accessible online to all students and other people interested. Prior to the Venture Visionaries event, it is possible for startups to book an Expert-hour.
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Enactus Tilburg & Friends Podcast #2: Tom Leenders, co-founder of zero waste headphone company Gerrard Street
04th January 2022In this second episode of the Enactus Tilburg & Friends video/podcast, the students of Enactus Tilburg University sat down for a conversation with Tom Leenders, co-founder of circular headphone company Gerrard Street. The conversation spanned topics such as Gerrard Street's mission to reduce e-waste, the challenges of launching a physical product, the tough and messy process of product validation, and Tom's learnings along the way.
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Reconstruction works Parking Area Warandelaan
03rd January 2022To make the parking area on the side of the Warande safer, reconstruction works start on January 10, 2022. These works will temporarily change the traffic situation.
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Students Committed to Sustainable and Responsible Entrepreneurship
23rd December 2021Tilburg University encourages student entrepreneurship and sustainable entrepreneurship. These aspects came together in the second Tilburg University Challenge with the theme: social responsibility. Two teams took home the three cash prizes. How are things now with the socially responsible clothing brand Bigger Picture Clothing and AnDa, the healthy drink produced from residual waste? Tilburg University Magazine talked to winner of the Business Ready Award and Audience Award, Freek van Litsenburg (23) and with Anouk van Anrooij (24) and Daniel Gelsing (23) who won the Ideation Award.
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Students Committed to Sustainable and Responsible Entrepreneurship
23rd December 2021Tilburg University encourages student entrepreneurship and sustainable entrepreneurship. These aspects came together in the second Tilburg University Challenge with the theme: social responsibility. Two teams took home the three cash prizes. How are things now with the socially responsible clothing brand Bigger Picture Clothing and AnDa, the healthy drink produced from residual waste? Tilburg University Magazine talked to winner of the Business Ready Award and Audience Award, Freek van Litsenburg (23) and with Anouk van Anrooij (24) and Daniel Gelsing (23) who won the Ideation Award.
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Impact of vulnerability in Log4j software on Tilburg University applications and systems
21st December 2021In the past few days, there has been news in the media of a vulnerability in the Log4j software. Log4j is used worldwide in numerous applications. At the moment, staff of our IT Office are investigating to what extent this vulnerability may affect Tilburg University systems. The outcome of this investigation will be communicated as soon as possible. Below we have listed more information and we explain what you can do to help.
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Tilburg University lauded as Most Sustainably Improved University
14th December 2021In its GreenMetric ranking, Universitas Indonesia (UI) has ranked Tilburg University as the Most Sustainably Improved University. The UI GreenMetric ranking, which was launched in 2010, compares universities on their sustainability performance, with this year’s edition featuring more than 956 universities from 80 countries. In just one year, Tilburg University has improved its ranking from 221st to 80th, earning it the title of ‘Most Sustainably Improved University’.
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How did you approach your study choice? Help us improve!
14th December 2021Are you a Dutch first year bachelor or master student of Tilburg University and would you like to help us with our information to future students? Then we are looking for you! We would like to hear from you how you approached your study choice. With your input we can better tailor our information to future students and help them with their choice of study.
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Social responsibility central theme of winners Tilburg University Challenge 2021
10th December 2021The Tilburg University Challenge 2021 has awarded all three prizes for the best business plan proposed by student teams to socially responsible ideas. During a livestream event on December 9th the Ideation Award went to Anouk van Anrooij and Daniel Gelsing for their healthy and fruity drink that is also sustainable. The Business Ready Award and the Audience Award went to Freek van Litsenburg, who, with Bigger Picture Clothing, sells clothing that is both sustainable in production and has a large social impact.
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Melissa van Wingerden wins Johan de Witt thesis award 2021
07th December 2021On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, during the online Autumn Congress of the 'Koninklijk Actuarieel Genootschaap' (Royal Dutch Actuarial Association), Melissa van Wingerden MSc, received from jury member Drs. Lieke Werner AAG, the Johan de Witt Thesis Award 2021 for her thesis "The optimization of collective investment strategies for heterogeneous individuals".
