Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden

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Sylvius, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden

Oort, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden

Reuvens, Reuvensplaats 2-4, 2311 BE, Leiden

Huygens, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden

Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden

Reuvens, Reuvensplaats 2-4, 2311 BE, Leiden

Arsenaal, Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311 CT, Leiden

Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES, Leiden

Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden

Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP, The Hague

Plexus Student Centre, Kaiserstraat 25, 2311 GN, Leiden

University Campus Spui, Spui 5, 2511 BL, The Hague

FSW building, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden

LUMC Research Building, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC, Leiden

Willem Einthoven, Kolffpad 1, 2333 BN, Leiden

Anna van Buerenplein, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, The Hague

LUMC Education Building, Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD, Leiden

Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ, Leiden

Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, 2311 BG, Leiden

Old Observatory, Sterrenwachtlaan 11, 2311 GW, Leiden

P.J. Veth, Nonnensteeg 1-3, 2311 VJ, Leiden

Johan Huizinga, Doelensteeg 16, 2311 VL, Leiden

Van Steenis, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden

Beehive Student Centre, Turfmarkt 104, 2511 DC, The Hague

Oude UB, Rapenburg 70, 2311 EZ, Leiden

The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.

With the number of externally funded research projects at the university on the rise and funding bodies setting ever-stricter requirements, it can be challenging to keep track of budgets, deadlines and reporting. The new Vidatum tool makes managing external projects easier for researchers and research…

Organisation, Social

What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what researchers, artists and the residents of Leiden are going to investigate during Seeing Stars Leiden on 25 September. ‘Leiden is the ideal place for…

Nearly all university buildings at the Leiden Bio Science Park will be open and operating again as of Wednesday 24 May. Last night a team worked hard to restore the power to the buildings in phases and this was successful. Students and staff can work and study there again.

Over 40 hard-working programme directors and chairs met for the first time in the Academy Building on 27 October to exchange knowledge and experience and gain new inspiration. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl opened the meeting with an update on strategic developments in higher education.

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.

They are responsible for a wide range of bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes but have more than enough in common to discuss: the programme directors and chairs. They met for the second time on 25 April to share knowledge and experiences and receive an update from Hester Bijl on strategic developments…

‘We may have taken steps together, but there is still much to do in the fight against racism and discrimination’, says Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University’s Executive Board. ‘We have to be aware of this and continue to focus on this difficult, uncomfortable and often confronting topic.’

How can the academic world best handle the new political reality in the United States? This is the question that managers, lecturers, researchers and students at Leiden University discussed on Friday afternoon at a gathering in the Kamerlingh Onnes building. ‘Don’t just give in; defend academic free…

You need not be completely miserable in your current job to start a discussion about your professional development. And if internal career coaching still feels like too big a step, you can take a look at the university’s Career Platform instead.

Organisation, Security

It can be irritating, all that logging in to university systems: entering your password for the umpteenth time and confirming in an app or with a code that you are the one who is trying to log in. Find out why we really do need to do this.

They have known each other since they were small but Rianne and Tom first fell in love when working together at the university. That love culminated in a fairytale wedding amid all the revelry last 3 October.

Rotterdam is an extreme example of inequality in the Netherlands. There are huge health and life expectancy differences between neighbourhoods. Good access to healthcare and education isn’t a cure-all, say inequality economists Lieke Beekers and Hans van Kippersluis

Paul Wouters has been involved in open science for 30 years, from his first introduction to a preprint server in 1992 to his recent roles as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and open science ambassador for Academia in Motion. Wouters is now retiring. He is leaving with high hopes…

Board members Annetje Ottow and Hester Bijl recently visited the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL, Faculty of Humanities) and the Mathematical Institute (MI, Faculty of Science). This was the start of a series of visits to institutes at our university. The focus is on talking to researchers…

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