Some thirty Leiden students balanced on SUP boards for the Supping for Sustainability Lustrum activity. Together with alumnus Merijn Tinga, better known as the Plastic Soup Surfer, they paddled their boards through the Leiden canals and waterways, fishing plastic waste out of the water.

Freezers set three degrees higher, a recycling bin for plastic petri dishes or timer switches installed on equipment: a growing number of Leiden University laboratories are taking small – but effective – steps to reduce their environmental impact, via the internationally recognized Laboratory Efficiency…

Maarten van 't Riet is senior researcher at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and External Phd Candidate at Leiden University, department of Economics and department of Tax Law.

Vincent Walstra is PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Ebbe Rogge is an Associate Professor at the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law.

Ekaterina Pannebakker (1981) joined the Department of Civil Law as assistant professor in 2016.

Esther van de Camp is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Genevieve Noordeloos is affiliated to the Institute for Private Law as PhD fellow since September 2023.

Merlijn van Weerd is an ecologist studying biodiversity distribution and richness patterns, the impact of human activities on biodiversity and the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation. He is a part-time lecturer at both the Faculties of Science and Social Science and leads the Mabuwaya Foundation,…

Leiden University has taken eighth place in this year’s SustainaBul, the sustainability ranking for universities and universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. It was in 18th place last year.

The Sustainability Monitor 2024 reveals that Leiden University has again taken significant steps to become a more sustainable and future-proof university. Since 1990, its carbon emissions have decreased by 50 per cent and, compared with 2019, its natural gas consumption has dropped by 32 per cent. Its…

Education, Research

Would you like to take concrete steps toward a sustainable university or do you have a broad interest in sustainability? Over 200 staff members have already joined the Leiden University Sustainability Network. And there is always room for more – even if you’re no expert on sustainability, says project…

How can society let go of its obsession with economic growth and focus on goals as wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability? This is one of the core questions which a new 3 million euro European project will tackle the upcoming four years. Leiden University researcher Rutger Hoekstra is project coordinator…

Leiden University and the Municipality of The Hague signed a collaboration agreement on sustainability on 1 November. Their main goals are to build a network, share knowledge and explore the possibilities of a Climate Centre for the people of The Hague.

Alexander van Oudenhoven is the brand-new education director of the master's in Governance of Sustainability. The study has already entered its fourth year and Van Oudenhoven is very enthused. What makes this a special programme and what are his plans?

Xiaoyang is a guest researcher at CML, where he previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the 'Future Availability of Secondary Raw Materials (FutuRaM)' project. He earned his PhD also from CML, with a thesis titled 'Sheltering 10 billion people in a warming and resource-scarce world: challenges…

Oli is an environmental economist studying the sustainability of global food systems with a focus on transitions of diets, food trade, and farmer livelihoods.

Robert is an environmental engineer whose research lies at the intersection of sustainable resource management and decarbonization, assessing the environmental and economic benefits and trade-offs of natural resource use and waste valorization in industrial decarbonization. His work is grounded in the…

Shashank is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and is working on the development and operationalization of a Safe and Sustainable-by-Design framework for additive manufacturing-enabled repair and remanufacturing within the NWA ADD-reAM project.

Erik de Maaker is Associate Professor at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at the Leiden University.

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Looking for a great meal at a sustainable restaurant? Since Monday 2 September, you can visit restaurant De Schotel in the Lecture Hall Building. This renovated space offers a unique combination of comfortable study areas, a no-internet zone, and a wide selection of delicious food and drinks.

What is the environmental impact of the fish on our plates? And is an electric car really more sustainable when we include the generation of electricity? Jeroen Guinée maps the environmental impact of products and technologies. He analyses them from raw material to waste disposal. He was appointed Professor…

Cristina Grasseni is Professor Cultural Anthropology at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Research

Buurtlab 070 is a new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together on climate, sustainability and biodiversity solutions. What do they expect of the lab?

On Friday June 2, the Liveable Planet event 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations - Food, Sustainability & Health' will take place. Here, researchers can learn everything about how to set up successful interdisciplinary collaborations. Why should you attend this event? We’ll give you three reasons.

Wessel Kraaij is a member of the interdisciplinary research programme Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS). He is an expert in dealing with unstructured information, be it text, video or sensor data. He is developing new methods and models to organize data, search and recommend…

A group of biology students are working on a solution to the world’s plastics problem by getting bacteria to make biodegradable plastic.

Organisation

Education, Research

Alexander van Oudenhoven has been appointed as the new Director of Education of the Governance of Sustainability master's programme. Van Oudenhoven has been appointed for a four-year period, from 1 October 2022 to 1 October 2026. The programme is taught in The Hague.