What if we let students assess themselves, or awarded fewer grades? What if we held challenging discussions in public rather than in the classroom, or embraced AI? With ‘Free your mind’ as its theme, no idea was too outlandish at the Leiden Teachers’ Academy Education Conference.

The Andrea Evers Fund provides funding for innovative, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects in the area of health and well-being.

How can you ensure that your research hits the headlines? How can you bring your research output, such as PhD research or a publication, to the attention of the public?

Have you just started your new job at Leiden University? On this page you'll find an overview of several useful pages and tips to help get you started.

Would you like to explore the next step in your career, or find out what your future options are? Do you have specific qualities that you’d like to develop further in your work? Or are you wondering whether you’re still in the right place or might like something different, but don’t know what or where…

Bachelor, Master

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.

Knowledge security requires that we carefully weigh opportunities against risks. The Knowledge Security Advice Desk was set up to support this process.

Career development, Communication, Transferable skills

Personal development, Transferable skills

Transferable skills

On 27 May 2025, the Executive Board decided to establish a Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones.

Education, Organisation, Research

As a student mentor or student tutor, you are involved in the mentoring programme on behalf of your study programme. You will receive information about your role from a dedicated mentoring coordinator from your study programme or faculty.

Bachelor, Master

Bachelor, Master

Transferable skills, Career development

Because she lives the values she stands for in her work, open and trustworthy leadership are central to Jannemieke Ouwerkerk’s approach. ‘It’s important in academia to want good things for each other.’

How is academic freedom restricted by the academic community itself? This was the central question at a debate at Leiden University on 14 November.

From the future of academic publishing and reshaping PhD trajectories to parenting during an academic career, leadership, societal engagement and quality in academic work: during the Academia in Motion Symposium and Town Hall, colleagues from across the university reflected on how to create an open…

Organisation

Every year Leiden University organises a number of events where our researchers share their knowledge with an audience of all ages. We are also involved as a partner in a number of local and national events. Fancy joining in? See who to contact below.

Leiden University College (LUC), an institute of Leiden University in The Hague – the international city of peace, justice, and security – offers the English-taught Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges since 2010. Inspired by the American university college model, LUC combines…

In 2022-2023 eight (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

Leiden University is proud of its research and teaching, its staff and its students. This is why we are keen to inform society of what goes on at the University.

Leiden University receives funding from several external sources, although most of its funding comes from the government. This is termed the first stream of income. Together, government funds and the tuition fee form the first stream of income.

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

For the academic year 20265-2027, five (teams of) teachers will receive a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

On this page you find an overview of tools many teachers use in their education at our faculty.

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Facility

Employees and students of Leiden University have access to Brightspace and other software with their ULCN-account. For others without a ULCN-account, like guest lecturers or teaching assistants, SEEDS can provide a guest account.

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…

Research

Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to see their lecturers once again.

The ambitions of the Dutch Recognition & Rewards programme are widely supported by academics at Leiden University. This is one of the findings from the first Culture Barometer survey, carried out in early 2024.

Are you looking for a coach? If so, you’re welcome to contact one of the university’s internal or external coaches; you can do this directly yourself, after choosing a coach who seems suitable.

Organisation, Social

The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) acquired six new members on 1 September. We talked to the new and former chair of this platform for young academics about what they have achieved over the recent period and what is on the agenda for the coming year.

Research

‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the line between free speech and threatening speech he called for ‘more guts’. He is not the only one who thinks this is badly needed if the debate at the…

Els de Busser (Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs), Ayo Adedokun (LUC The Hague) and David Fontijn (Faculty of Archaeology) have been nominated for the LUS Teaching Prize 2020-2021.

Education, Research

A professor from Leiden University, together with a former employee (who is also the professor’s partner), has been guilty of long-term unacceptable and often transgressive behaviour in the form of abuse of power and manipulation. This behaviour led to a culture of fear among staff who were largely…

The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).