Speech2025

Handout Speech2025 Why Speech2025? Date : March 9, 2017 Time : 13:00 – 17:00 hrs. Location : Auditorium Cobbenhagen building Why Speech2025? Help prepare our university for the future! The preparations for drafting our university’s new Strategic Plan for the period 2018-2021 are in full swing. This plan will help us prepare for the future, give shape to the development of higher education in the Netherlands, and anticipate the challenges and developments in our society. The Strategic Plan 2018-2021 will contain the vision and focus for the future of Tilburg University. The Executive Board is looking for choices that are broadly supported and also co-created by our academic community, using the wide range of knowledge and expertise available. Therefore, the new strategy will be defined by all the university’s internal and external stakeholders in an intensive dialog.

Handout Speech2025 What is Speech2025? Speech 2025 will be a large-scale event for every member of our academic community. At this event, representatives of all sections of our academic community, who have joined in teams, will share their personal ideas and ambitions. In preparation for this event, 'Dimensions for the Strategy. Towards a Strategic Plan 2018-2021 for Tilburg University' have been formulated, describing seven dimensions along which our university could develop. No content-based decisions have been taken with regard to any of these; they are all subject of discussion. The Executive Board wants to ask all the university’s internal stakeholders to give a speech about their opinions on these dimensions, and to add and share their wishes and insights with regard to the future of our university. All input harvested will be gathered and published on the website as well as via Tilburg University’s regular communication channels. Above all, it will be crucial input for the writing phase of the Strategic Plan.

Handout Speech2025 Contact: Facebook: Frederique Knoet How to join Find team mates via Facebook Prepare a speech with your team Be present on March 9! Speech outline It’s highly recommended that you use this structure for your speech. Start by making your audience care, using a topic from Dimensions for Strategy or a new intriguing topic. Explain your idea clearly and with conviction. Describe your evidence and how and why your idea could be implemented. End by addressing how your idea could affect your audience if they were to accept it. Speech duration maximum of 6 minutes Hand in your speech in PPT format before March 6 via e-mail: strategieteam@tilburguniversity.edu Guidance Find team mates via Facebook, or sign in via strategieteam@tilburguniversity.edu Check the website for background information Contact Frederique Knoet for assistance about the process. Facebook: Strategic Plan Tilburg University 2018-2021 Internet: www.tilburguniversity.edu/new-strategic-plan Contact: Frederique Knoet f.knoet@tilburguniversity.edu Sign in or mail speech: strategieteam@tilburguniversity.edu