 Welcome everybody, very nice to see that you're all here, like, see about 31 people now online. I would like to tell you a little bit more about, well, Tilburg University today, about our programs, also admission application requirements, and then, I don't know if our artists are already online, otherwise he can introduce himself. I'm on camera just yet, so he will join in a minute, because I think it will be very nice for you to, Carl Carlin, who is one of our alumni from Mexico, and he just finished his program and is now working in Switzerland, actually. So he will join in later to tell a little bit about his experience as well. And of course, there's room for questions. So hi! So there you have him as well. So, do you still want to say something to everybody? Introduce yourself? Yes, nothing more to introduce myself, Jorge. I already introduced myself in the chat, but, well, later I will give a little presentation about my own experiences, Anne who is going to talk to you about more important information about the requirements, BECAs, costs and so on. So, well, stay with her at the beginning, and later I will quickly talk to you about how my experience was, why I decided to study in Orlando, and also recommendations about the application process. So, well, welcome and thank you very much. Okay, thanks a lot, Carlin. Well, about Tilburg University, actually I think many of you probably have not heard of the city of Tilburg before. So I just thought to start with a little map to show you where we actually situated. So Tilburg is the sixth largest city in the Netherlands. You might have heard of Amsterdam and Rotterdam probably, but you can see Tilburg is here in the south of the Netherlands. It's actually just a very short bike ride to Belgium, and half an hour you can take your bicycle to go to Belgium. I mean, as you saw in the video that Carla showed you before, Holland is quite small. It's only 300 km from north to south. So it's very easy to travel around. The train, the public transportation system is very efficient, so it's very just a short train ride to other cities, like a bit more than an hour to Amsterdam. But you can also easily hop on the train to Brussels or Paris. You can fly in an hour to London. So that is quite nice. We are very centrally located in Europe. So Tilburg itself has about 200 inhabitants. So it's not very big, but just the right size we think, and especially because 28,000 of them are students, which means that student life is very important and there is a lot of active student life going on in the city. But I'm sure Gorka can tell more about that later, as he experienced that himself firsthand. So I will stick a little bit more to the facts and tell you a little bit more about the university itself. A good to know for all of you is that we are a university that is really focused on social sciences. So it means we have programs in economics and business, law, social sciences, communication, culture and philosophy and a very interesting new field in data science. We're medium-sized, about 12,500 students and a very large international community actually with English taught programs and the bachelor's. It's about 40% foreign and in the master's programs I would say a little bit more than a third of the students comes from abroad and that is from last year. I think we counted 95 different nationalities. So that is what a lot of people really like because it's really diverse and you can be in class with people from Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and Holland of course which makes it to an interesting experience. So why would Tilburg University be interesting? Well I'm not sure if Carl already talked about it but I know that a lot of students in general choose for Holland because of the quality of education actually whichever university you choose you will find that they will be in like the top 250 of the international rankings. Looking at Tilburg specifically I'm actually quite happy to say just recently we were again chosen as best specialist university in the Netherlands. This is a Dutch research in which like students and professors can rate the different universities and for the age year in a row we were chosen as the best specialist university so we're quite proud of that. But also in the international rankings especially on the subjects that were active in like in economics and social sciences really belong to the top in Europe. Also our university stands the motto says understanding society well that might not say too much but we actually show that also in our program so there's a very strong focus on global issues. Really try to teach you to make a difference which means that for example if you study business or finance or something it's not just about making money but really about thinking about the impact that your decisions will have on the society and so critical thinking skills are very important. Well already mentioned that we have very multicultural classrooms and also an active student life and it's also a very interactive learning environment. Actually in Holland in general it's never about sitting back and relaxing in class and just making notes. There's a lot of interaction going on there's a lot of discussion you're asked to get presentations so that's the style that you can expect in the classroom. Also what a lot of people like is our compacts and green campus. This picture is not so clear but in the end before you log out I'll show you a little campus store which you can actually browse around and we're really just on the edge of a forest or sort of park. So in the summertime it's very nice to just lay around on the grass a little bit with your study books. If you choose to come to Tilburg of course we'll also help you with settling in. When you are accepted to one of our programs we will help you with finding accommodation. Everybody who is accepted will receive information about that so you can either choose to make use of our furnished accommodation that we provide or we provide you with websites where you can find your own accommodation. We help you with immigration like visa support if that's necessary and which is very nice when you arrive. We have specific arrival days on which we help you with getting to your accommodation, opening a bank around flying a bicycle. All the important things you need when in Holland and there's a lot of social activities organized so to make sure that you settle in easily. Also not only for international students but we have very strong career services at the university which we think is very important because also one of the reasons that people come to Holland is to look for a job here or in Western Europe after their studies so the career services can help you with that. I thought you might be interesting to know if there's also other people from South America in Tilburg. As you can see we have had growing numbers so not so much in the undergrad programs you see we've like two, three, this year eight students within the master programs it's growing and so we have around 40 students from South America each year and we see most people come from Brazil, Peru, Colombia actually I saw that on the registrations today also a lot of people Mexico of course joined in I think some of you might already have spoken actually to one of my colleagues who have visited the Prana Back Fair in Lima this year or perhaps in the Europas Gradosphere in Bogota so very nice that you're again joining in tonight. So our programs I briefly said before we actually have over we have about nine different international bachelor's programs and more than 40 international master's programs so it would go a bit too long to go into detail of all of them and I also saw on the list that was by far most people among you were interested in a master's program but it might be interesting to know like how it works in the Netherlands still diversity our bachelor's take three years and after that you have the option to either choose for a one-year master program and a master program in one year really prepares you for a professional career or you can choose to do a two-year research master program and that is for those of you who are interested in a more academic career or perhaps doing a PhD it's actually possible to if you want to do a PhD to take sort of a package in which you take two-year research master under your PhD in three years after so in five years you can do this so that's also an interesting possibility if you're interested in that so our bachelor's programs as you can see we have a number of programs in economics and business in the social sciences fields next year for the first time also psychology we offer in English we have a very strong law program and at our university college we have a liberal arts program with a lot of specialization communities about the master programs which I think most of you will be interested in well I should just divide it up here a little bit into subjects our school of economics and management is the biggest school and we offer lots of different programs if the field of business I would say it ranges from more general programs like international or strategic management to really specialized business programs like marketing management or information management or supply chain management with all very interesting career opportunities and on the other hand we have our economics program actually we're quite famous for our economics programs both bachelor's and master's they're really great in the Netherlands and among the best in Europe and as you see here as well we have like all these programs which you see here take one year but you can also choose for the two year programs the research master if you're not interested to proceed with a PhD in one of these fields afterwards then we have our programs in law the song of these programs might be familiar to you like international law human rights business law but we also have some more unique programs like law technology for example which is very interesting the combination of all the legal aspects that come into play with new technologies like biotechnologies or like also and you can think about cyber crimes etc so there's quite a strong demand for people with these skills and also labor law will offer from next year onwards victimology is a very interesting program and here again you can also choose for the two year program in law the research master new are our master programs in data science some of the programs we actually offer together with the Eindhoven University of Technology it's a very interesting combination actually of business and IT data analytics we notice a very strong demand actually from labor market and I think there will be actually also a lot of jobs which will exist in the next few years we believe that more and more companies will ask for people with skills in these fields so very interesting to take a look at these programs at our school of social sciences we have human research studies social psychology sociology and also some very strong research master programs we have a number of programs in humanities and culture studies communication and information sciences in both of these programs there's a number of fields that you can specialize in and that means that you graduate in one of these you will get a diploma saying for example culture studies with a diploma supplement with the specific major on it and communication information science is also very interesting program which has something called a matrix curriculum so you have a lot of flexibility in choosing just the courses that you are interested in so what about after graduation so the programs take about one year and you normally end with your thesis actually it's very interesting a lot of our students choose to write their thesis for a company which is a very interesting way to get to know like a business already in general we do a research every year among our graduates and we see that our graduates find a job within three months after graduation which is actually really good and of course here you will see some of perhaps a bit more fancy international organizations but of course the range of companies is very broad also there even as a non-EU student there is something which is interesting in Holland you can apply for something called a search year visa so if you graduated in the Netherlands you can stay one more year to look for a job in the Netherlands and actually within the EU so you have that freedom to travel so that's interesting you might also wonder like how does it work if I do not speak the Dutch language or at least I get a question a lot of course for most international organizations it's not a problem and you can, English will be sufficient but of course there is also a lot of smaller or local organizations where you deal with customer contact where Dutch is at least a big advantage so for all the students who started Tilburg University we offer some free language courses so you can look for basic Dutch if you're interested in that so what about the requirements I will move on I think to the master requirements since that was for most of you if some of you are interested in the bachelor requirements do please ask me later and I will go into it as well but for our master's programs firstly quite logically on each diploma you need a bachelor's degree in a relevant field secondly you will always need to prove your English proficiency and you can do that by showing us one of these four test results which you see here either the IELTS, TOEFL or Cambridge test and also importantly for our programs in the field of economics and business we do require to take a GRE or GMAT test which is interesting to note that this is not required for our partner universities and in nearly every country in South America we have one or two partners of which students are exempted so that you can find a list on our website rather easily so please check this before you will take your test to see whether you have to take it or not or you can just send us an email if you are not sure the deadlines I'm sorry I just see now that these are from this year but they are the same every year so but our master's programs most of them actually start twice a year so you can start either in the end of August or the end of January if you want to start in August next year you can apply until April 1st and that is also actually the deadline of most of our scholarships program so that is good to take into account as well if you want to start in January until October 1st and for the bachelor's program they only start once a year the deadline is May 1st so what about tuition fees and living costs actually I saw that Karla also presented that a little bit in her slides already about both the cost and the scholarship so I'll briefly go through it but fees at Tilbury University for the master's programs range from 10,000 to 514,000 euros and you can see next to that you also have your cost of living which is approximately 750 to 850 euros a month but of course that is very individual it will depend on your own lifestyle if you like to party all the time you might spend a little bit more but some students might also be able to get around to it with less as well so as already told that's for students from South America enrolling in one of our master's where we do have several scholarships available I think most of them are already talked about by Karla but we do also have a specific Tilbury University scholarship every school so our school in economics and business school in law, school in social sciences they all have a number of scholarships available they are mainly targeted at excellence so for rewarded to the students with the highest grades then next to that we have indeed like she explained already the Holland scholarship which participate in the NFP scholarship the orange tulip scholarship for Mexico you can see for certain countries we also have specific organizations we work with so we just find it very important that we can help you finance your studies of course if you go to tilburyuniversity.edu slash scholarships you can just click your nationality and see exactly which scholarships are available for you so that might be interesting to lately so I will not take it much longer so I would really like to pass on the mic to Gorge to tell a little bit more about his experience this year you still need to turn on your microphone Gorge Can you hear me now? Thank you Thank you very much and thanks to all of you I wanted to tell you if you can write in the chat the country where they come from I would like to know where they are for more or less know where there are students interested in Tilbury University I see that the audience is very varied well my name is Jorge I studied in Tilbury University in 2014 I graduated a few months ago in August I studied the Master's in Intercultural Communication which as you could see in the presentation changed name and now it's called Global Communication in the Faculty of Humanities and well first of all I want to start to tell you or explain to you why I chose to study in the Netherlands first of all and why in Tilbury because as you could see in the map Tilbury University is not very well known but well I chose the Netherlands because I studied Intercultural Communication for a year and a little bit I didn't like it much so once I decided to return to the country by the way if you have any questions I can't answer them so write them in English to Anneke who will answer your questions but well once I had experience with Intercultural Communication I decided to return to the Netherlands for specific reasons first of all I knew that the program that I was looking for that Intercultural Communication only offered to Tilbury only I mean to all Europe and even the rest of the world I didn't find that option what it talks about the specialized courses in the Dutch universities another thing that convinced me was the fact that it's a program for a year as most Master's in Holland some of them are 10 months and that doesn't mean they are exhaustive programs but on the contrary they are very demanding but in a shorter time than what are usually in other countries and well one of the big advantages is that they are completely imparted programs in Greece so the Dutch I don't say it fluently and really it's because it's not necessary but it's a bit the fact that I say that the Netherlands is a very friendly country for the foreign community one for the language because the Dutch have a very good English level so even some of them are very good in Spanish but another thing is the transport system which is also one of the things that makes it easier to move along and beyond the country without any complications and within the city the use of the bicycle is something it's a habit that if some of you, let's hope that they will study in Holland returning to their countries they will miss it and some of you will bring with you that habit because it's one of the things that I'm talking about compared to other countries that also have a large number of universities among the first 200 international rankings such as the United States such as the United Kingdom Australia, etc in those countries the maintenance costs are much higher than what they are in Holland and in particular Holland near Tilburg such as Rotterdam or Amsterdam also have comparatively lower costs well how is life student in Tilburg well I repeat that I also mentioned Tilburg is a very well known city however I can tell you that it offers everything a student needs most importantly the quality of life and there I wrote a little bit in Dutch that I'm not going to try to pronounce it but this talks about the feeling of the person who has the region where Tilburg is located Tilburg is in a province called North Brabant or as commonly known simply Brabant and it is a very Dutch expression that simply means feeling in a welcoming place Dutch are certainly and this is worth mentioning in Latin America where we are more warm more open they have this stereotype of being cold people less friendly but well without taking into account that this stereotype is false at least that is my opinion in the area where Tilburg is located is a area in the south of Dutch a little more similar to the culture we have we are in general terms but well I say this to reflect the fact that Tilburg a city again I say very open to receive students, foreign students the ambience that it breathes is a very welcoming ambience and in terms of cultural being such a small city like Tilburg which is the largest city in the country it has different options cultural it is worth exploring if you travel to the country I like art a lot and it has different museums it has the Pond Museum which is one of the most important art museums in the Netherlands if you like to google it I am going to write the page and a secret that I am going to mention in the next slide the truth is that the province of Brabant has given some of the best painters that have the Netherlands one of them is Moscow and the next I am going to mention in the next slide nightlife is not necessary and here I emphasize on the subject of transport if you want to live the party as it is lived in Amsterdam in Laja or Rotterdam you really don't have to worry about living in another city that is not Amsterdam because you can finally take a train and in an hour and ten you are in Rotterdam or an hour and a quarter you are in Laja or an hour and a half maybe you will be in Amsterdam so everything is like we say in Mexico stone shooting and you can explore the country without more problems if you are a student you will also find a lot of bars a lot of discotheques and well the international environment that is also very important to highlight I used that image of the PSV Eindhoven two of our national selection for the Mexicans Mr. Moreno and Andrés Guardado that in fact this team just yesterday called a reflex if a Mexican footballer who complicate all this adaptation could adapt in Brabant surely you can do it too and well here are some images of my experience in Holanda in Tilburg as you can see I made very good friends one of the things that are also in charge of the university each one but the university offers introduction courses for all international students this does not have to do with the pre-master as some students had asked me by chat but once you are accepted the university wants to smoothen the landing and then there are programs of orientation for all international students that once they arrive in Tilburg they will enter groups of students that have arrived to organize parties, to organize dinner to know together the city to know how the study program is what the schedule will be in the university all these details in some way make the arrival and acclimatize to the country and the university so thanks to that I can make very good friends with friends, for example there in the photo in the photo up there my body group as they call it in those groups that are organized once they arrive at the university I had friends from China from Lithuania from Slovenia, from Italy, from Brazil another Mexican where is he he is not there and well, Dutch is impossible it is a very rich environment in that sense, it is not completely international I am not talking about only people from Europe but people from Latin America from Asia, etc the life of a bicycle as you can see there is the parking of the train station that is one of the problems that one finds when you are on a bicycle because it is a completely bicycle sometimes it is difficult to find where to park the bicycle that is difficult especially when you are going to arrive late for the train the typical Dutch landscape is over there when you go on the train and see these tulip plants in the time they are very beautiful messages and well, what I found in the previous positive area and by means of my mastery was when I found out that Van Gogh one of the most recognized painters in the Netherlands lived, in fact, in Tilburg during his childhood I think about two or three years so, as I told you he is a very close to Tilburg so the province of Brabant can presume to have given to the country some of the painters did not recognize him there is still his house in case you want to see it well, now taking the subject of how the education system works in the Netherlands it is a very particular teaching method that differs a little to the Mexican system and surely some of us in Latin America but perhaps the most important points are self-story this competitive character of the universities but always obviously oriented to teamwork and this is also part of the Dutch personality in the Dutch the desire to debate and share opinions and always have a cordial dialogue but sometimes I don't know how to say it but in the Netherlands it is very popular in the debate and finally the motto of the university which is understanding society in terms of self-story it is an environment where you start a course and you have so many studies which is very well explained by the teacher from the beginning of the course you are already responsible from that moment to know when are the deliveries when are the exams how the rest of the course works the materials, etc. I this is my personal experience during the licensing in Mexico we had a different orientation as to how the teachers were monitoring the student process and they were reminding us that we had to deliver the exam in the Netherlands in the Netherlands you already have the guide of how things are going to be and with that guide you are responsible let's say what they do is that they focus on the student an independence that I think in the long run does not work as much as professionals so it is something that I also admire a lot in the Netherlands if you have the intention of receiving the feedback of the teacher about a work written or the exam you yourself have to approach the teacher with all the availability to talk to you and give you that feedback but if you do not approach the teacher the teacher will continue in the future a lot of work in the team that is another thing that I also think it does not work once we are looking for a job because in some way it develops to communicate with other people which is double difficult when you are practicing with different cultures from different countries that is very promising in Tilburg that in some way is related to the language of understaining society and this is not an air language but really all study programs are in business or communication or theology for example that they also offer at the University of Social Psychology etc. they always have this base to be able to apply the knowledge acquired at the University to specific problems in society so that is also very admirable because certainly the pull of Tilburg University is the research the quality research but they do not want the research to have a purpose so what I was able to perceive in my program of intercultural communication and what made me fall in love with the topic about migration was that all the subjects had this orientation to current problems that exist today like the migratory crisis like the integration problems that exist in Europe etc. so I had asked Anne to tell me what I do now I will mention it until the end first of all I am sure that one of the most important for all students or at least for me that's how I did it when I was looking for study options the becas there someone asked me in the chat at the beginning if it is possible to apply to more than one beca the answer is really yes in fact it is the obligation of the students not only to apply to an option of financing but to apply to all the possible options all the becas that are open and the ones that meet the requirements apply because normally for some reason we are we have the idea that there is a beca that will give me 100% that will cover maintenance and college and if I only apply to that and I earn it I will no longer need to cover with any other support the other expenses today normally the becas do not work like that the becas are in their partial majority but that allows the student to apply more than one so in my case what I did was apply to the beca here I was also applying to becas of Mexico and also if the university offered more than one then I applied to the beca of my faculty and to the beca of my profession for Mexicans exclusively as you can see all these logos that I put here are nothing more to fill the white space these are becas that apply for Mexicans but on the same page of NUFIC for each country and as I mentioned before in the university page there are also specific sections for each country to know what are the becas for each of you in the case of Mexicans becas that participate with Dilburg are the M.O.B. becas the financing becas that is offered with FUNED the Holland Scholarship and the Orange Tulips Scholarship to see what are the successes because becas also have a limited date obviously that is the first of April in most cases they don't have to be accepted to apply these becas but it is necessary that they start sending those documents before the date is closed and well in addition to the options that you will see this is another very personal recommendation in addition to the options that are explicit for each country you look for it in my case once I do all the possibilities that appeared on the internet I said I will not lose anything if I send a email for example to the youth institute of the town it happened I sent a letter asking for support and they gave it to me and this means they can simply send an intention letter saying that they are students that were accepted at the university and they are looking for support I don't think they lose more than 5 or 10 minutes to write a good letter and wait to see what they answer right? well finally another reason Holland is a very good offer to study abroad for the opportunity to grow once you finish your studies the presentation is called Kickstart Your Career and this means that once you finish studying you will be able to find what is next and there are different options for you one of them is to continue with your studies and who will be the master of research the same university offers different options but the university also has a very wide range for you not only to finish your program but from where you start to study you will find out how to get a job what is the ticket in Holland to get a job they have services such as Career Portal Student Career Center this information is on the website for all the students if you approach with these entities from the beginning you will be able to know how to prepare your CV what are the companies looking for in Holland when someone goes to an interview you will be able to see what is going on in Holland and at the same time there are different events organized by the university organized by NUFIC one of them as you can see here in the photo is the NL4 Talents and this is a workshop of a day that NUFIC organizes offers different workshops for the future graduates to know what are the skills that they need to reinforce when they request work in Holland this is a photo of the last event that we had with the Scholar Network for the students they also give us preparation how to get a job in Holland and others and in the end you write your goals and goals in a very simple way I can say that for all those doubts fortunately the university has the necessary to solve all the doubts you have now I do not live in Holland I am working as a communication consultant in the Global Forum for Migration and Development in the city of Geneva, Ibiza and finally I find out about this work by one of my courses about university policies in the health system so I think that as well as I have several colleagues that because of their experiences they were able to find work and I think that many of them are now already with employment as I repeat in the last few months to have finished studying then there are options and it is a thing to look for if you have questions, doubts or tips I would be very happy to share my email in the LinkedIn so that we are connected and we are getting close to any question whether it be technical doubts or doubts about the city where are the best places to go so it is good and I think that would be it for me thank you all and well if you have doubts around here we will be very happy to answer them thank you ok thanks a lot Jorge can everybody hear me again or should I change the microphone could you let me know if you can hear me Jorge yes I can ok perfect just checking alright thanks a lot for your information well there was a lot of questions already in the chat if you have any more please just type them now then we can also just about Jorge we can answer them in front of everybody as well I don't see a lot of new questions coming in I can just give it a little bit of time but in the meantime I will also go on to show you where you can find a little bit more information if you want of course you can just go to our website www.tiltofuniversity.edu if you want to know about the Masters it's just slash Masters what might be interesting for you slash my brochure that you can just compose your own personal brochure so you can just click exactly the information that you are interested in or the program she would like to have some more information about then you will get also fact sheet for program with the exact requirements contact information etc so that might be interesting to have and if you have any questions all of you will anyway receive the slides that are about the contact details of CORE-HEMME in there but our general email at www.tiltofuniversity.edu so there you can also always contact us if you have any questions so I see there are still a few last things coming in in the chats which is absolutely fine we can leave that open for now what I will do is just for those interested start a little to conclude and what you can just take a look around our campus so you have a little bit of an image as well on what it looks like we will stay online in the chat for just a little bit in case you have any last questions and otherwise well hopefully we see some of you in Tilburg sometime and well we might be on touch online as well so perhaps we will see you later so bye bye well thanks a lot Anneke I can see that answering a lot of questions is already very efficiently so we don't need to spend much time on this Jorge thanks a lot you too my ex-colleague and well guys take the opportunity to take advantage of all the information we are giving you we here in New Ficknes we are going to spend all the assistance of today to Anneke and Jorge so they can send the presentation and don't forget always contact always use both the representatives of the 6th as in New Ficknes we are only giving information for Latin America send us all your questions minimum and silly from both academic and possibility to study in the Netherlands everyday life apply to all the BKs we have a lot of questions of if the promise is minimal always you have to explore possibilities don't put any barrier in advance apply and try to meet all the requirements to stick to what the universities ask you they are very strict but this is also part of your quality control and we are going to be here answering your questions to my colleagues Anneke and Jorge for the time they have given us and to all of you for participating today thank you very much and if you need to wind down after a heavy day of studying the sports center is just a couple of minutes away