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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation 28 October 2024This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almo...
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions 28 October 2024The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to ...
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique' 28 October 2024Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lect...
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika? 24 October 2024In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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Oncode Accelerator funds preclinical development of cancer therapies 23 October 2024Through its Demonstrator Projects, the Dutch Oncode Accelerator consortium provides grants for preclinical cancer therapy development. The first call ...
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Update Executive Board: Working groups looking at measures to absorb cuts 23 October 2024The 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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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Update Executive Board: 'The Balanced Internationalisation Bill even stricter than we had feared' 22 October 2024
The 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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These colleagues keep you safe: ‘Being an emergency responder is useful outside of work too’ 22 October 2024Do you know what to do if a rubbish bin catches fire, a student takes ill or a colleague falls off their bike? Our emergency responders do. They are r...
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days 22 October 2024‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Fanny Wonu Veys: ‘I want to introduce students to the art history of Oceania’ 22 October 2024Fanny Wonu Veys was appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania on 1 August. Time for an introduction.
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys 21 October 2024Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...
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Democracy in action: Horizon grant for policy-oriented research on grassroots culture and democracy 21 October 2024Dr. Sara Brandellero and Dr. Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues from Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society will lead a collaborative research proje...
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Update Executive Board: Response to parliamentary letter on internationalisation 16 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...