759 search results for “break means” in the Staff website
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Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling
‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year on 6 September. The prize is for the best lecturer of the year.
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Suspend student exchanges with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University
Leiden University’s Committee on External Collaborations – Human Rights and Conflict Zones advises the Executive Board to suspend student exchange programmes with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University until further notice.
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Confidence is the byword for Director of Research Lotte van Dillen
Lotte van Dillen has every confidence in the Executive Board of new-style Institute Psychology. ‘If we work on the basis of everyone’s good intentions, we’re going to do great.’ If you lack confidence, you’re not the kind of person to jump on your bike and go off to Sicily. Want to find out more about…
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Timo Kos on the cuts and elections: ‘We’re fighting for the future of our university’
The university may seem a bit subdued in the run-up to the Dutch elections on 29 October. The media has barely mentioned education as an election issue, but behind the scenes the university is lobbying hard, says acting President of the Executive Board, Timo Kos. ‘We’re fighting for the future of our…
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid
Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…
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What will this new interview cycle do for me? And four other questions about GROW
The announcement was made shortly before the summer break: from 1 September the annual Performance & Development (P&D) interview will have a new format and also a new name. The P&D interview will be changing to GROW (Gesprekken over Resultaat, Ontwikkeling en Welzijn): Conversations on Performance,…
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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’
For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can once again go to the office. After a period of working from home, which for some lasted almost two years (with maybe a short break), it can be a big transition.…
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Animal-friendly and effective: Leiden students develop nanobodies using yeast
Yeast, alpacas, and antibodies. They may seem unrelated, but within the project of the Leiden iGEM students, they come together perfectly. For the international synthetic biology competition iGEM, the team is working on an innovative method to produce nanobodies—a special form of antibodies—using brewer’s…
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Chemist Marc Koper receives Spinoza Prize for research on electrolysis
Professor Marc Koper researches how you can use electrical energy to make or break chemical bonds. He has just been awarded a Spinoza Prize, the Netherlands’ highest personal science award, for his fundamental research into how this form of electrolysis works.
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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Experts on the war in Ukraine, two years later: ‘Europe learned a lot from the war, help each other and don’t give up’
The one-day symposium ‘War in Europe: the impact of Russian aggression in Ukraine two years on’ on 23 February 2024
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Academia in Motion Festival
Festival
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Symposium on the future of AI and academic publishing
Symposium
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference
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The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2023
Conference
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Codecheck
Workshop
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Meet your Graduate School – Start of your PhD
Study information, Graduate School
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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Alumni Event Russian and Eurasian Studies
Alumni event
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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Workshop in honour of Elisabeth J. Kerr and Zhen Li
Conference, Workshop
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Kick-off Conference Horizon Europe research project TransEuroWorkS: Transforming European Work and Social Protection
Conference
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Campus The Hague Career Event 2022
Course, Career Event
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Codecheck
Workshop
- Young Academy Leiden meets the Science Faculty
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European strategy and the quest for resilience in global supply chains of semiconductors
Lecture
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Book Launch and Discussion: Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America
Lecture, Book Launch and Discussion
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The Comenius Education Scholarship. What is it and how do I get one?
Lecture, Training afternoon
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The ragwort problem: scientific insights and management
Symposium
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Forum for Mexican Students
Event
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Research Day 2025: It Takes a Village – Shaping Interdisciplinary Futures
Conference
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Tail Regeneration in the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)
PhD defence
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Cultural continuities and discontinuities: the Neolithic ornament assemblages from Franchthi (Greece)
Lecture
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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Citizen-centered Constitutional Law Workshop
Workshop
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Femicide: a comparative approach from a Dutch, Italian and European point of view
Conference
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Quantum Meets Leiden: IBM lecture & mini-symposium
Conference
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'The benefits and disadvantages of labour migration are unevenly distributed'
One million migrant workers are employed in the Netherlands, often in poor conditions. If we want to reduce labour migration, we need to restructure the economy, says economist Olaf van Vliet. Either way, we need to address abuses, says FNV lawyer Imke van Gardingen.
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Manuscript and Early Book Destruction
Conference
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Flaws in the Flow: Investigating Gaps in the Governance of Post-Consumer Textile in the Netherlands
Workshop
- Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty
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Conference: Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850
Conference
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Best practices
On this page we've bundled the best practices which will be presented during the Education Market of 19 June 2025.
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Jeunesse comme ressource des conflits violents
PhD defence
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Student Talk: Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet
Lecture
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National WO-Day during Economics Education Week
Conference
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Ummahāt al-Khulafā’: Mothers of the Marwanid and Abbasid Caliphate
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Collecting Global Heritage
Conference
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Comenius Scholarship: What is it and how do I get one?
Lunchbyte XL