Starting a partnership and signing an exchange agreement is just the first step in facilitating student and staff mobility. Staff and student exchange at Leiden University is administered by international coordinators at faculty and central level.

If you have a question about the University website, or if you wish to post an announcement or report content-related changes, please contact the web editors of your faculty or unit.

When you retire, your income is almost certain to be lower than what you are used to. You can take measures now to supplement your pension later.

Leiden University gives its students the opportunity to assemble part of their programme themselves, which enables them to choose their own areas of emphasis. One way in which they can do this is to follow a minor, a coherent package of courses worth 30 credits.

Website visitors want to see at a glance whether an activity looks worthwhile. How do you create a good event page? Here are a few guidelines.

The Faculty Board and the Educational Directors feel that within FGGA we should and could deal more sensibly with what is in itself a good instrument: course evaluations.

Explanation of improvements and additions to templates and blocks.

Workshop

Transferable skills, Personal development

Is your project financed by second and third-party sources of funding (national / EU grants and the private sector)? You will find information on what to take into account in the Regulations on Working for Third Parties. There, you will also find information about (financial) project management, such…

Much of Leiden University’s income comes from the government and the tuition fee (first income stream). Each year the Executive Board distributes this income among the faculties and institutes. For the sake of transparency, the University applies the First Income Stream Allocation Model. Alongside being…

The University aims to be bilingual, and provides its information in Dutch and English wherever possible. This has consequences for the information provided on the University websites.

Didactics

Transferable skills are skills that students develop during their studies and can use later in a variety of work contexts.

Course, ARCHON Workshop

Start thinking in advance about the selection for long-term preservation.

Within the university you can reserve rooms for educational and non-regular educational purposes, but also for events, meetings and gatherings.

Scientific integrity is an important element in the PhD trajectory, and is addressed in several different settings.

Good ICT resources are crucial for having a smooth working environment at your new place of employment. Here we briefly explain what you need and where you can find the most important ICT services.

Visitors to a website want to see immediately if the content is worth reading. The text should therefore be appealing and ‘scannable’.

All partnerships between Leiden and international partner universities are managed in a central database.

Biological agents are micro-organisms such as bacteria, parasites, moulds, viruses and their waste products. This category also includes genetically modified variants (GMOs). These agents may form a risk for your health, which is why we apply a number of legal and other guidelines to prevent people…

In the event of full or partial occupational disability, your income may decrease. To help protect you against this risk, coverage for occupational disability is included in your standard ABP pension scheme. If you would like extra protection, you can take out supplementary occupation disability insurance…

Leiden University offers its international staff several resources to help find their way in the Netherlands. The Service Centre International Staff provides advice and different types of services to all international employees and guest researchers that come to pursue their academic career in Leide…

ICT

Anneke Wurth, PhD candidate at ICLON, wanted to gain insight into what works well in oral language education in the school subject of Dutch in the upper years of havo and vwo. The role of feedback became central to her research.

On 23 and 24 October, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies hosted the 2025 edition of Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe at Leiden Law School. Over two days, participants discussed more than 40 work-in-progress papers, with materials available to participants ahead of time. The conference…

Read where to go with your questions.

Organisation

PhD defence

Exhibition

PhD defence, Performance

If you notice something you think may be unethical or illegal, you can discuss this in confidence with the confidential counsellor.

PhD defence

Hybrid Book Talk | SSEALS

Leiden University is committed to making your work safe, healthy and enjoyable.

Francien Dechesne, Associate Professor of Ethics and Digital Technologies, has been appointed by the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences of Tilburg University as Professor to the endowed chair of ‘Data and AI for the Rule of Law’, effective 1 November 2025.

Wouter Weeda has been appointed Scientific Director of the Institute of Psychology by the Board of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He will start on 1 December 2025 for a period of three years, succeeding Hanneke Hulst.

Communication, Outreach, Transferable skills

Personal development

PhD defence

PhD defence

Conference