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A significant portion of organizations appear to look for discrimination-sensitive personal characteristics in the resume during the recruitment and selection process.

In the past decade, a rising number of trade measures in the interest of national security have increased insecurity in the global economy.

The pressing housing shortage in Tilburg has prompted Hospi Housing, together with the City of Tilburg, Fontys University of applied sciences, and Tilburg University, to launch a campaign encouraging

In an open letter addressed to Greek and EU authorities, 300 academics turn their attention to the migrant shipwreck of 14 June 2023 off the coast of Pylos, Greece, resulting in the loss of an estimated 650 lives.

The digital transformation of agriculture in Europe is being hindered by challenges related to access and control of agricultural data.

On July 11, 2023, Tilburg University and the City of Tilburg have adopted a roadmap for a co-creative research program in the field of broad prosperity in the local communities and broad prosperity in business. This research program is part of the agreement between the City and the university to take cooperation to an even higher level.

In economics, people are the focus, not economics, Eric van Damme argued in his farewell address on June 22.

When do monopolies of digital platforms like those of Google, Meta and Amazon become too strong, and how do you give new entrants to the market a chance?

Researchers at Tilburg University will develop a digital self-management platform for people with severe mental illness.

In rural Uganda, both clan councils and government institutions play an important role in settling local disputes.

Government openness and transparency in the form of communicating data can sometimes overshoot the mark.

The NWO has awarded Professor of Methodology Jelte Wicherts a Vici grant of one and a half million euros for his research on differences in causal effects in experiments. In experiments in psychology and other fields, scientists look for causal effects, while it is possible that those effects are not the same for everyone.

Eritrean refugees are trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured, abused and raped by slavetraders to force family members to pay ransoms for their release.

Market participants in the trading of energy derivatives are often unaware of the exchange of their business-sensitive information by and amongst national and European national regulatory authorities, while it is essential that they can trust their data to be kept confidential.