Full name: Globus, Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development

Founding date: 1998

Objectives: Globus, an inter-faculty institute at Tilburg University, is an expertise center for multidisciplinary research in the areas of globalization and sustainable development. Globus aims to be a platform for critical debate among researchers, policy makers, decision makers, and other interested parties.

Main projects in globalisation studies: Global civil society; partnerships; corporate social responsibility; environmental policy; measuring sustainability; governance

Output: Globus initiates and organizes research projects, conferences, seminars, workshops, training programs, and debates. Research results are published in international scientific journals, in books and as reports in a special Globus series.

Staff: 12 core staff (9 researchers (mostly part-time), 3 support; various forms of cooperation with faculties of Tilburg University

Director: Professor Paul van Seters

Funding: core grant from Tilburg University; current and past project grants from inter alia Ministry of Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Province of Noord-Brabant, Sustainability Challenge Foundation, private sector.

Street Address: Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands

tel: ++31 13 466 8015

fax: ++31 13 466 8018

email: globus@uvt.nl