Tilburg University 2020 Current profile and vision for the future

1. Tilburg University 2020Current profile and vision for the future November 2011

2. Motto and strategy UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY Tilburg University enhances the quality of society both today and tomorrow through: • the academic development and training of young people • excellent research results in the humanities and social sciences • strong valorization in association with triple-helix

3. Trademarks and profiles 2020 Tilburg University (TiU) is a relatively small university (approx. 12,000 students), ranked among Europe’s best. Our trademarks: • Small learning community on a human scale • Research excellence • Socially-oriented • “Lean and mean” organization

4. Tilburg University’s core disciplines

5. Core figures1

6. Alumni

7. Student satisfaction 2010-2011

8. Number of degree programs 2011

9. General ambitions Tilburg University strives to: • Provide in-depth training and promote academic development • Maintain its small-scale learning community • Improve research impact • Increase national and European grants and fundraising • Cluster scientific research • Create stronger ties between scientific research and social issues • Intensify and improve quality of education • Increase international recruitment (students and staff) • Improve outgoing mobility

10. Rankings

11. Citation impact

12. Research assessments 5 out of 5 Social and Behavioral Sciences • Latent Variable Models • Cognitive neuropsychology • Social & Cultural Dynamics Law • Tilburg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Civil law and Conflict Resolution • INTERVICT (Victimology) Economics and Management • Finance • Econometrics • Organization • Marketing • Microeconomics Humanities • Making Sense (Linguistic Architecture/Language, Knowledge & Interaction)

13. Research assessments 4.5 out of 5 Social and Behavioral Sciences: • Relational Perspectives on Adaptive Organizations Law • Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society • Tilburg Law and Economics Center • Center for Company Law • Center for Transboundary Legal Development Economics and Management • Accounting • Computerized Information Systems • Operations Research • Macroeconomics Humanities • Communication & Cognition (Discourse Studies/Multimodality & Cognition) • Language & Culture • Religion as Contested Ground

14. From multidisciplinary institutes to Centers of Excellence

15. NWO, ERC, EU challenges and leading sectors Outstanding achievements in NWO and H2020 competitive grant schemes: - Incentive schemes, ERC, Marie Curie, Research Infrastructures Applicability to several relevant EU challenges: • Health, demographic changes and wellbeing • Inclusive, innovative and secure societies Leading sectors: Focus on Social Sciences and Social Innovation as integral component of each leading sector

16. Education figures

17. Education figures

18. Educational measures How to achieve these? By continuing to: • Strengthen the university’s education portfolio • Provide program information • Provide support and make referrals • Promote Basic Teaching Qualification for newly appointed teachers • Provide programs that promote excellence

19. Educational measures New policy: • Improve program information and support, expectation management • Further strengthen university’s education profile • Numerus clausus (for large programs) and lower-level selection • Raise BSA standard • Expand Liberal Arts program • Adapt programs that promote excellence • Teaching staff peer review • More senior teaching staff on Bachelor’s programs

20. Educational measures • Restructure the TiSeM Master’s • Discontinued programs: Accountancy (MA), Financial Management (MA), Investment Analysis (MA), International Economics and Finance (MA) and those soon to be discontinued: Economics and Informatics (BA), Economics of Finance and Ageing (MA) • Transfer Leisure Studies program to NHTV • Transfer Healthcare, Ethics and Policy (MA) to UvH • Discontinue Environmental Law (MA), Dutch criminal law in Europe (MA), Social Law and Social Politics (MA), and the part-time Law program (BA)

21. Valorization update Quantitative indicators • Investments in valorization 2009-2013: € 8.113 million • Multidisciplinary institutes: € 6.337 million • Entrepreneurship (BCE, Outreaching, Valorization program, Office for Enterprise and Law, UvT Society) € 1.266 million • Networks (Brainport, Tilburg Social Innovation Lab) € 510,000 • Contract research: 13.9 % (2010) • Number of Science Practitioners conducting: • PhD research: 25/6.6 FTE (Tranzo) • Other research: 25/5 FTE (Tranzo) • Number of endowed professors 2010: 67 13.55 FTE =7.8% of total corps of Professors

22. Valorization ambitions Tilburg University pursues a strategic vision with regard to its role in society. This provides a basis for its work organization and is reflected in a rise in the: • % staff members appointed with contract funding and alternative sources of funding • % external funding (including endowed chairs) • Number of Tilburg University matches in PPPs • Media exposure • Number of dual taught and research programs • Number of new start-ups and generated innovations/service innovations • % turnover Business School

23. Valorization measures • Review organization structure for valorization and entrepreneurship (combine strength and knowledge) • Clear, quantifiable agreements with the faculties on input and commitment to valorization and valorization goals .