Leiden University has more than 150 educational innovation projects on a wide range of topics, such as digitisation, curriculum reform, skills teaching, internationalisation, active learning and community building.

Diversity

Staff development is important to promoting the well-being of both students and staff at Leiden University. Following training and workshops can be a good way to gain knowledge beyond your field of expertise.

Didactics

To give you some idea of the options, below are some examples of events that the Events Office has organised.

Diversity

Diversity

Humanities, Centre for Linguistics

Humanities, Centre for Linguistics

Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Our university believes it is very important that its employees can take pleasure in going to work and can carry out their work without any hindrances. A safe working climate is a necessary condition for this. Collegiality, respect, and job satisfaction should be guaranteed and undesirable behaviour…

Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Our commitment to top-level education and research means that internationalisation plays a key role at Leiden University. We work with diverse partners worldwide and do everything in our power to attract talented international staff members.

Studium Generale organises lectures, debates, symposia and film screenings on diverse academic subjects. The General Studies programme is for students, staff and anyone else who may be interested.

In order to further enhance the quality of our education, in 2014, the university established the Collegiale Raad voor Onderzoek naar Hoger Onderwijs (CROHO) (College Council for Higher Education Research). Professors who are experts in education research participate in this council. The CROHO advises…

Leiden University wants to attract the best academics. What requirements does it set for new academic staff members? What requirements must you meet for a career in academia? Read more about our career policy for academic staff.

The physical accessibility expert group was established to identify how we can make university buildings more accessible and how we can ensure this remains a focus in the future. The group's starting point is that students with disabilities should be able to access and move around university buildings…

Leiden University wishes to attract and retain talented researchers, both male and female. This is not something that happens by itself, which is why we prioritise the theme of diversity.

EUniWell, the European University of Well-Being, is an alliance of eight universities. The alliance’s aim is to promote an inclusive well-being agenda for students, staff and society at large by offering new, innovative, interdisciplinary and international opportunities for collaboration and development…

Law

Law

Archaeology

Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)

Archaeology, FdA Faculty Board and office

Science, Leiden Observatory

Science, Leiden Observatory

Student and Educational Affairs

Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College The Hague

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)

Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Political Science

Governance and Global Affairs

Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs

Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs

Humanities

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychology

The Development and Alumni Relations department offers a number of offline and online communication resources for alumni. Alumni are approached via the Leidraad magazine, the digital newsletter Alumni News and the alumni website. The University also manages a number of social media accounts especially…

Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam have been collaborating intensively for many years. In 2012 this collaboration was formalised in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities strategic alliance. This has allowed us to approach important and complex societal…

Together with staff and students from eight different European universities, we are working on a European University for Well-Being: EUniWell.

Governance and Global Affairs

Law, Institute of Public Law, Europa Institute

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College The Hague