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To get in the Christmas mood, we set off with students doing something good for the world. In the first part: Alex feels obliged to help people. Episode two is about Tessa who helps eight hours a week in a care home. IBA-student Denise goes to Albania to help survivors of the earthquake and tells about this in the third piece. For the fourth and final story we spoke with Karel, Dico and Sander. Every year around Christmas they spend an evening with homeless people.


Alex Becker

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Philosophy student Alex: helping is my ‘Kantian obligation’

To get in the Christmas mood, we set off with students doing something good for the…

Tessa Razafindrakoto

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Psychology student Tessa: volunteers can make such a valuable contribution

To get in the Christmas mood, we set off with students doing something good for the…

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IBA student Denisa travels to Albania to help earthquake survivors

To get in the Christmas mood, we set off with students doing something good for the…

Peaceful Christmas dinner

How do you prevent a heated discussion with your uncle during Christmas dinner? Cultural sociologist Willem de Koster explains how you can safely navigate between the cliffs in these times of polarisation.

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‘Even the milk you pour in your coffee is part of the culture war’

How do you prevent a heated discussion with your uncle during Christmas dinner? Cultural…

Christ and economics

Lans Bovenberg and Paul van Geest did something very unusual: a few weeks ago, they presented a joint inaugural lecture. An economist and a theologian discuss why the two disciplines need each other.

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All economics students would attend theology lessons, if it were up to these professors

Lans Bovenberg en Paul van Geest hielden onlangs een bijzondere dubbeloratie. Een econoom…

From RSM to EUC

After twenty years at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Professor Gabriele Jacobs is moving to Erasmus University College, where she is succeeding Wim Hafkamp as dean. In the EUC building, she talks about her drives, the conflict between societal impact and top science, her introduction to the Netherlands from a boat and the painfulness of diversity.

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New EUC dean Gabriele Jacobs: ‘Young women struggle with the same problems as I did twenty years ago’

After twenty years at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Professor Gabriele Jacobs is…

How to juggle studying for exams and raising a child

Gvantsa Kikalishvili and Kimberly Walden are parents, and students at the same time.

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Being a student mum: ‘The real hardship started when I became single’

For most students, studying can already be a stressful experience. But what would it be…