346 search results for “skills” in the Student website
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Workshop Time Management
Study support
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Student associations
Leiden University is well known for its student associations, which provide a great way for you to get to know your fellow students. As well as parties and social events, student associations also offer excellent sporting and cultural opportunities.
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Urban sketching
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Singing: You have a voice!
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Feeling stuck with your thesis or writing assignment? You’re welcome to ask the Humanities Writing Center for help
Academic writing: it’s something that all students have to face. And it can be really quite difficult. The writing coaches at the Humanities Writing Center will therefore support you at every stage of your studies.
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Strong need to talk together about Ukraine
Everyone has been watching the attack on Ukraine, a war on the European continent, with a sense of foreboding. It will bring devastation, loss, suffering and worry and it raises questions. With these words, Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl opened the meeting on the war in Ukraine at Wijnhaven on Thursday…
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Ready for a future as climate changemaker, thanks to Designing Your Life
Getting motivation, courage and tools to find a job that will help you tackle the climate crisis: it is at the heart of the course ‘Designing Your Career as a Climate Changemaker’. With their final presentations, the students conclude this climate-specific skills module within the Designing Your Life…
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Meeting participants provide input for Strategic Plan
In its Strategic Plan Leiden University sets its direction for the coming years. A new plan will be presented next year, and in the runup to this we are organising different forms of student and staff consultation within the scope of LDN FWD (‘Leiden Forward’). A series of meetings were recently held…
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Why standing as a candidate for University participation pays off
Do you want to promote the interests of students or staff? If you do, put yourself forward as a candidate for the University Council or the Faculty Council between 5 and 8 April. Two council members, PhD candidate Elisabeth Kerr and Law student Mante Kaaks, tell us about their experiences.
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National ThinkTank: ‘A school trip that never ends’
The clever young people at the National ThinkTank who tackle an urgent societal problem each year include two Leiden alumni this autumn: Jiao Harmsen and Jort van Dalen. They will spend at least four months getting to grips with the topic of ‘education’.
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Got a question about science? Ask Leiden!
Due to its success, the Leiden2022 Q&A has been extended and is looking for even more thought-provoking, interesting or unusual questions.
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Digital education: what’s working well and what can we improve?
Nearly a year since the abrupt switchover to mostly online learning, the Digital Education seminar gave teaching staff the opportunity to review their experiences. What can stay in 2021 and what must go? Frequently voiced opinions: yes please to digital tools that make lectures more interactive; yes…
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Honours Class reconciles students with the unpredictability of life
The course Designing Your Life helps students navigate their career pathways. As it turns out, these pathways are full of twists and turns and - as with many journeys - you only make progress once you gather the courage to take the first step.
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Students help make Maldives more fertile
Its idyllic setting and white sandy beaches have made the Maldives a hotspot for tourists. This provides an income but is a problem for the fragile natural environment. Students from various universities worked with the local people to make the soil more fertile. How did they go about it?
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Fieldwork in Leiden
How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, students have been conducting all sorts of research, in Leiden. They presented their initial findings and recommendations at a Learning with the City meeting…
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Alumnus Simone participating in National ThinkTank: ‘A good imagination is essential’
Say biodiversity loss, and then say humanities. These two terms may not seem an obvious combination, but alumnus Simone Scholte explains that her Film and Literary Studies degree actually offers a unique perspective on the problem. She is therefore one of the 20 students participating in this year’s…
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event
Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students and young alumni of the Faculties Governance and Global Affairs, Humanities, and Behavioural Sciences came together last week during the Campus The Hague…
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’
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.
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Join a study association: ‘It expands your worldview’
A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.
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Leiden University student attends Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony
Natalia Sobrino-Saeb has attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. She was awarded this honour after winning the essay competition of the Nobel Ignitor Fellowship, a programme that seeks to inspire young changemakers around the world – for change can be made by all of us: “You never know…
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This honours class makes you date your problem
Theoretical research does not always give us the right solution to a problem in society. This message, loud and clear, is delivered during the final presentations of the Master Honours Class 'Social Innovation in Action'.
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Workshop Job interview 📋
Career and apply for jobs
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Purple Friday (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Career Prep, 24 April 2024 in Wijnhaven
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop Academic Writing for New Students (Writing Lab Humanities)
Study support, Study support
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Career Prep, 29 November 2023 in Wijnhaven
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop LinkedIn profile and network
Career and apply for jobs
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Career Prep, 11 october 2023 in Wijnhaven
Career and apply for jobs
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Improve your negotiation techniques with Blanche Voorneman
Career and apply for jobs
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Orientation meeting Honours College: Science & Society
Study information
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LinkedIn profile and network
Career and apply for jobs
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Thesis Week 2 & 6 May - Campus The Hague
Study support
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LinkedIn: profile and network (English)
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop CV and Application letter
Career and apply for jobs
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Career Prep, 29 February 2024 in Wijnhaven
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop CV and Cover letter
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop Developing an Academic Writing Style (Writing Lab Humanities)
Study support, Study support
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Workshop CV and Cover letter
Career and apply for jobs
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Writing Lab Humanities: Thesis Week 4-7 April
Study support
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Workshop Keep on Writing: Becoming disciplined to write your thesis (Writing Lab Humanities)
Study support, Study support
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Online Career College: Working in Research - Faculty of Science/ LUMC
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop: CV, Personal Profile and LinkedIn tips
Career and apply for jobs
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Inspiration workshop – motivation and learning
Study support
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Oriental dance beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Workshop How to find a job in the Netherlands
Study support, Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop What have I got to offer an employer?
Career and apply for jobs
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Thesis kick-off
Study support, Study support
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Workshop How to find a job that suits me?
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop: Entrepreneurship with Sjoerd Louwaars and Vahit Güzel the founder of Choco & Things
Career and apply for jobs
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