Leiden University offers support in the different stages of your research lifecycle.

The One Amongst Zeroes project is funded by the NWO-Vici grant. The grant runs from October 2021 to August 2026. Grant No. VI.C.201.058

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Wil je staf- en studentenuitwisseling en internationalisering een structurele plek geven in jouw onderwijs of onderzoek door middel van samenwerking met een buitenlandse universiteit?

In 2024, many of our students and staff won great prizes and secured important research grants.

Read more about working at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).

An overview of Quantitative Pharmacology projects

In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.

Bachelor, Master

In 2022, many of our staff and students won fantastic prizes and were awarded important research grants.

PhD, Staff

The second phase of Global Interactions will see a significant expansion of our funding program. With an annual budget of nearly 150,000 euros, we will introduce larger 'Breed' grants, post-docs and cross-faculty teaching development grants in addition to a slightly expanded program of seed grants.

The Research Support Team (RST) at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs provides comprehensive support and timely advice to researchers in identifying relevant grant schemes or funding systems.

Staff members and affiliates of the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities are involved with a variety of digital research projects. Some of them are featured below:

Are you thinking about writing a proposal? Or did you get a project awarded? The Project Office is there to help you! 

Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the six finalists for this annual national prize that is awarded to students who promote diversity and inclusion in their own discipline.

Bachelor, Master

In this dossier you can read about Leiden University’s commitment to sustainability.

Living systems scale from unicellular microbes to complex multispecies communities that constantly change over time. Within the theme Development & Disease, we enhance our fundamental understanding of development and homeostasis of living cells and systems. We analyze the normal situation and how stresses…

Bachelor, Master

The Leiden Faculty of Archaeology is a world renowned academic centre for the study of the past. Our archaeologists and heritage experts are involved in innovative projects all over the world.

In 2025 hebben medewerkers en studenten van de Universiteit Leiden veel mooie prijzen ontvangen en belangrijke onderzoekssubsidies binnengehaald.

In 2021 many of our students and staff won fantastic prizes and were awarded important research grants. This is our traditional review of these successes as the end of one year marks the beginning of another.

Methodology and Statistics focuses on the development, evaluation and application of statistical models for the analysis of psychological research data.

The CIGR brings together a diverse range of unique expertise in genome research rooted in biology, chemistry and physics. Members of the CIGR investigate genome folding and genome transactions. An important aspect is direct as well as long term relevance for medicine.

YAL stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration.

The CMCB brings together microbial cell biology expertise in Leiden. It aims at optimal resonance between the groups and maximal exploitation of the available infrastructure and to develop innovative cross-boundary technology platforms.

A reduced tuition fee applies to the pre-master’s programme in the 2022-2023 academic year.

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is an independent institute within the Leiden University Humanities Faculty. A Management Team, consisting of an Academic Director, a Director of Education and an Institute Manager, is responsible for the overall running of the institute. This team is…

Microbes influence and respond to other organisms. This theme explores the dynamic relationships within plant and animal microbiomes, and the immune responses that govern host defense. Using model systems such as zebrafish, insects, and plants, we investigate fundamental processes and engineer microbes…

Your tuition fee depends on a number of factors, such as your nationality and your previous Dutch higher-education qualifications.

This pilot project will initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilized to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia. Climate adaptation strategies frequently include the sourcing of heritage, encompassing landscapes, built environments 4 and cultural practices. However, effective…

The project ‘Food citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale’ has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 724151).

The tuition fee for our students depends on a number of factors, e.g. your nationality and your previous education qualifications. Read more about the tuition fee

The tuition fee of the programme International Children's Rights depends on a number of factors. Read more information about the tuition fees.

The tuition fee depends on a number of factors. We will explain more about the fees on this web page. Read more.

The tuition fee for the programme depends on a number of factors, such as your nationality and your previous Dutch higher-education qualifications.

The tuition fees of the programme European and International Human Rights Law depends on some factors. We described info about the fees on this page.

The tuition fee depends on a number of factors. Find out more information about our tuition fees.

The tuition fees depends on some factors. You can find more information about the fees on this page.

Your tuition fee depends on a number of factors, such as your nationality and your previous Dutch higher-education qualifications. Read more

Your tuition fee depends on a number of factors, such as your nationality and your previous Dutch higher-education qualifications.

The GTGC programme offers seed grants to researchers at Leiden University for the purpose of developing new interdisciplinary research that address related themes on global transformations, governance challenges, and citizen engagement.

The research in the Biosyn group is focused on the design, synthesis and function of the four major types of biomolecules: nucleic acids, carbohydrates, peptides and lipids and hybrid structures thereof. These biomolecules and their derivatives are used in drug discovery and chemical biology, to develop…

Students of Leiden University's Master's in Visual Ethnography join a decades-long legacy, producing inspiring films and projects supported by the Metje Postma Fund.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University’s Faculty of Medicine with The Wistar Institute in the United States.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Humanities with the University of Hyderabad.

The research of our group is centered around dynamical systems, functional analysis and their interplay.

When companies violate women’s human rights.