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Almost € 3 million of funding for research on sexually transgressive behaviour 22 April 2025The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a grant of €2,858,000 from the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) for tackling sexually transgressive b...
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Leiden students help with primary school language lessons 22 April 2025De Regenboog primary school in The Hague has a high percentage of children whose first language is not Dutch. In the ‘Children of the City’ project, E...
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Health Campus explores effect of neighbourhood approach for healthy Hague generation 16 April 2025A generation is growing up in The Hague Southwest with little room for manoeuvre. Researchers from Health Campus The Hague are following what the BRUI...
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Career Days launch ‘Don’t just focus on success’ 16 April 2025‘Health, happiness and productivity. The focus is mainly on the latter, but to create a sustainable career you need all three.’ These were the words o...
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Public Administration student Benito investigated benefits scandal: ‘Rules can profoundly impact lifes’ 16 April 2025The child benefits scandal caused significant harm to families. The independent Hamer Commission specifically investigated the link between the scanda...
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Claim that Executive Board agreed to join 11 April discussion is incorrect 10 April 2025End Fossil, Open Leiden and Students for Palestine incorrectly claim that a meeting will be held with the Executive Board on Friday 11 April. This sta...
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CV of Failures exhibition has opened: No growth without failure 09 April 2025On Tuesday 8 April, the CV of Failures exhibition was officially opened by Hester Bijl. Members of the university community share their personal stori...
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Update Executive Board: Senate adopts education budget, cuts to go ahead 08 April 2025The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Frontex director Hans Leijtens: 'We don't stop migration, but we want to manage it properly' 08 April 2025What does European border security look like? On 14 April, Hans Leijtens, executive director of Frontex and former commander of the Royal Netherlands ...
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Cybercrisis under control: Leiden University takes part in national exercise 08 April 2025How should universities respond to a cybercrisis such as a DDoS attack or data breach? Leiden University participated in a national crisis exercise wi...
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Field trip to sustainable farm shows ‘what you can achieve if you chart your own path’ 08 April 2025How to take ownership of your career? To find out, students from ‘Design Your Career as a Climate Change Maker’ visited a farmer who has done just tha...
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‘It’s worse than I thought; it’s affecting all of us’ 04 April 2025How can the academic world best handle the new political reality in the United States? This is the question that managers, lecturers, researchers and ...
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Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism 03 April 2025Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role i...
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Robin Neumann honoured for her award-winning thesis 02 April 2025Nominated as best Master thesis by the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), Robin Neumann has received the second prize in the Leiden Univ...
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University passes Institutional Audit 01 April 2025An independent panel recently conducted an Institutional Audit (ITK) of Leiden University. It assessed whether our quality assurance and quality cultu...