Starting five years before your AOW (General Old Age Pensions Act) retirement age, you are allowed to submit a request to reduce your working hours per week by one or two days. You forfeit a portion of your salary, but you retain your original pension accrual. This arrangement is known as the Vitality…

Personal development

Festival, Knowledge Festival

Didactics, Career development

Conference, Kenniscafé

Since the 2025-2026 academic year, a new door policy for exams has been in effect. During lectures, students are asked to register for exams. It is therefore recommended to emphasize during lectures that students must register. Students who are not registered may, under certain conditions, still participate…

At Leiden University, we expect our researchers and lecturers to share our ambition to become one of the best. This is the crux of our HR policy. Read more about our policy below. Also, you will find more information about temporary staff, staff participation, leadership and how we ensure our integr…

Transferable skills, Research

This year, there are elections for the student section of the University Council and the Faculty Councils and the staff section of the University Council. Also ther are by-elections for the Faculty Council of Archeology and Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Employee Council of SEA. What topics…

Study information, Workshop

The long-term savings option enables you to save some of your vacation hours for long-term vacation such as a sabbatical.

Research, Transferable skills

Didactics

Employees of departments participating in the Flexible Working pilot can reserve workstations themselves via SharedDesk. You can reserve a workstation in the office up to one week in advance. If you wish to cancel your reservation, please do so at least 24 hours in advance.

Career development, Communication, Transferable skills

Research, Communication, Transferable skills

Diversity

The Service Point Financial takes care of financial transactions for the entire University and has made a list of things to keep in mind when you make payments and send invoices on behalf of the university.

research software

Personal development, Working effectively

In all matters regarding education, Leiden University faculties are supported by the Expertise Centre for Student and Educational Affairs and the Faculty Educational Office.

Every faculty has its own procedures with respect to registering for courses and examinations, BSA, handing in grades, publishing timetables, etc. For more information, see your Faculty’s tab.

The SSH labs accommodate many types of research. The different types of labs were created after close consultation with researchers and offer a wealth of possibilities.

As a PhD candidate, you are expected to follow certain courses and training programmes in the context of your training as researcher.

On this page you will read all about the Kiem funding tool.

Can assessment practices become more fair in the age of GenAI? A group of Leiden University students and teachers set out to work on this question during the FAIR-ASSESS Deliberative Assembly. One key takeaway: our views on GenAI remain diverse – and that’s a strength of our university community, according…

How can you encourage students to actively participate in your course?

Staff from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities jointly provide lab support to the participating institutes.

This website provides an overview of the organisational structure of Leiden University. Here you can find contact details of secretariats, staff lists by department, co-participation bodies, and regulations.

You can participate in many different activities and events. A lot is organised by EUniWell and the partner universities. Such as the annual FestiWell, Summer Schools or various lectures and symposia. This is how you get to know EUniWell and its ideas. Below is a selection of what is on offer.

The University pays out salaries on pre-determined dates. Additionally, the holiday allowance is paid out in May and the end-of-year bonus is paid out in November.

Within our university, we believe it is important to remain in dialogue with each other, to hear what is going on, and to take steps together. This allows us to build an environment in which we can work and grow together.

Most of us are spending more time looking at computer screens due to remote working and online meetings. Video calls have become a popular way of keeping in touch for professionals but it’s not without its problems. The two most frequently heard complaints are a general sense of fatigue and a lack of…

Strong leadership is essential for building an open and learning organisation.

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

Leiden University has concluded an agreement with elipsLife for a collective ANW shortfall insurance. This insurance provides financial security for your partner in the event of your death.

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Research, Transferable skills

Personal development, Transferable skills

Didactics

Meet fellow lecturers in an intervision group to reflect on teaching practices together and gain new insights.

The Barrier-Free Studying project embodies Leiden University’s statement of intent on inclusive education, which was issued in 2018.

Receiving an individual grant is highly appreciated in the academic world, because of the tough peer-reviewed competition.