Existing partnerships
All partnerships between Leiden and international partner universities are managed in a central database.
Examples of partnerships
Since 2015, Leiden University has been awarded multiple International Credit Mobility (ICM) projects with many different partner universities all over the world.
An association of 23 leading research-intensive universities that share the values of high-quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research.
LERU advocates:
- education through an awareness of the frontiers of human understanding;
- the creation of new knowledge through basic research, which is the ultimate source of innovation in society;
- and the promotion of research across a broad front in partnership with industry and society at large.
The purpose of the League is to advocate these values, to influence policy in Europe and to develop best practices through mutual exchange of experience.
The COIMBRA Group is a network of long-established European multidisciplinary universities with an international reputation. Coimbra focuses its efforts on creating academic and cultural ties between its members in order to promote internationalisation, academic collaboration, excellence in teaching and research and knowledge transfer to society.
The Coimbra Group also aims to influence European educational policy and facilitate the mutual exchange of experience and best practices.
The Europaeum brings young researchers and leaders together to discuss developments in Europe and to promote pan-European thinking; stimulates collaboration in research and teaching between leading European universities and helps academics and students organise conferences, colloquia and summer schools that enable political, cultural and business leaders to participate an interdisciplinary dialogue with the academic world.
European University Association represents and supports higher education institutions in 47 countries, providing them with a unique forum to co-operate and keep abreast of the latest trends in higher education and research policies.
International Association of Universities is a UNESCO-based worldwide association of higher education institutions.
EuroScholars consist of US undergraduate students who participate in research projects within a European network.
Eurolife is a network of European universities in life sciences.
LSH is an exchange program between Leiden University and the LUMC (Netherlands), Karolinska Institute (Sweden) and Heidelberg University (Germany), which allows students to study in joint Master programs at the three institutions.
Leiden University and ten other leading European research universities have come together to create a unique alliance. Una Europa aims to draw on our collective strengths to create a truly European inter-university environment, a University of the Future.
International partner universities
Our collaboration agreements offer both students and staff opportunities to broaden their horizons by spending some time abroad. The agreements also serve as a basis for research projects and other forms of collaboration.
Our faculty has established academic cooperation agreements with universities and institutes around the world, reflecting the global orientation of FGGA’s teaching and research. Examples include the University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Liverpool (UK), Sciences Po Paris (France), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Uppsala University (Sweden) Macalester College (USA), University of Wollongong (Australia) and Diego Portales University (Chile), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, National University of Singapore, National Taiwan University.
Many of our European partnerships are part of the Erasmus+ programme. Outside Europe, FGGA has concluded bilateral agreements with selected institutions that align with our academic focus in areas such as governance, international relations, security studies, liberal arts and sciences and public administration.
These partnerships enable mostly student mobility, and a selection also offers staff mobility (staff teaching and staff training), joint research initiatives, and collaborative teaching. A full overview of our current partners can be found under Staff mobility (FGGA tab).