The I2Care expertise centre of the FEB combines scientific knowledge about IT and healthcare and is organizing a symposium on the subject on 4 December. In addition to presentations and demonstrations about healthcare applications within Wireless Groningen and a lecture about Healthy Ageing, a prize will be awarded to the students who come up with the best solution for a municipal care portal.

The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) has included the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, in the field of Economics, in the so-called Excellence Group of the best universities in Europe. The Excellence Group has only 69 members, which is 1.5 percent of the 4,500 European institutions of higher education.

The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) wants its students to aim for excellence and established the Freshman Ranking to inspire first-year students to give it all they have. On 13 November, the Freshmen of the academic year 2008-2009 of all BSc programmes received their propaedeutic certificate.

Le Thong Pham explored the determinants of child health and contraceptive use in Vietnam. Maternal education and household’s income have strong effect on all health issues. He will be awarded his PhD on 19 November (1.15pm).

A delegation of guests from Indonesia visited the Faculty of Economics and Business on Friday 6 November. A cooperative agreement between FEB (RUG) and PPIE (UI) has been signed by FEB Dean, Prof. Elmer Sterken, and witnessed by Prof. Nachrowi and Mr. Avip Syaefullah.