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Equal opportunities
Opportunities are not evenly distributed in the world. How do we improve this?
Sustainable solutions
With education and research, we as a university are making a difference around sustainability.
Entrepreneurship
Not everyone needs to become an entrepreneur. But entrepreneurial skills are often useful.
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Does your post code determine your chances in life?
Already in the cradle at a disadvantage
Your chance of buying a house, your chance of having a good income and your chance of getting a particular job is already largely fixed at birth.
As it turns out, the place where you were born plays a big role in this.
Difference of thousands of euros
Two young families have the same income. One family lives in Blijdorp. Another family in Oud-Crooswijk. The children of the family from Blijdorp turn out years later as thirty-somethings to earn on average thousands of euros more per year.
Inequality quickly apparent after birth
Data show that babies born to lower-income families have a higher BMI than their wealthier peers as early as four months.
This is how Erasmus MC becomes a circular hospital
Seven bin bags of waste per intensive care patient per day. And that is only a fraction of a hospital's environmental impact. Circularity is the answer. But how do you achieve that without compromising the quality of healthcare? Erasmus MC researcher Nicole Hunfeld thinks it can be done.