The opening of the Academic Year 2020-2021 took place on Monday 31 August 2020 in Pieterskerk church.

The opening of the Academic Year 2019-2020 took place on Monday 2 September 2019 in Pieterskerk church.

The 2020-2021 academic year has begun. The new academic year may have been opened in a pared-down ceremony, but a ceremony it was nonetheless, with around 150 guests in the familiar setting of Pieterskerk and around 1,000 people watching the livestream. ‘Universities will always exist, however rapidly…

In this part of the LUC Newsletter Archive you can find the newsletters of block 3 and 4 of academic year 2019 - 2020.

The opening of the academic year 2022-2023 took place on Monday 5 September 2022 in Pieterskerk Church.

‘One lecturer stood out in particular,’ said Dirk van Vugt, Chair of the Leiden University Student Platform (LUS), at the opening of the academic year. ‘Despite the hurdles of remote teaching, she managed to inspire her students with the aid of knowledge clips, challenges and topical lectures about…

De opening of the Academic Year 2021-2022 took place on Monday 6 September 2021 in Pieterskerk church.

De opening of the Academic Year 2022-2023 took place on Monday 5 September 2022 in Pieterskerk church.

The opening of the Academic Year 2017-2018 took place on Monday 4 September 2017 in Pieterskerk church.

The opening of the Academic Year 2018-2019 took place on Monday 3 September 2018 in Pieterskerk church.

The student weekly diary of Archaeology/Egyptology students, 2020.

The opening of the Academic Year 2016-2017 took place on Monday 5 September 2016 in Pieterskerk church.

When the corona epidemic broke out, Nuno Atalaia, a teacher of Portuguese, ‘democratised’ his lectures. He is one of the three nominees for the LUS Teaching Prize. What is it about this approach that appeals to students?

For the first time in the 441-year history of Leiden University, students will be the keynote speakers at the opening of the new academic year. Their talks will focus on refugees.

As a result of the current corona measures, attendance at the Opening of the Academic Year on 6 September will be restricted to a maximum of 75 persons. The ceremony can, however, be viewed online by taking part in a video wall.

Leiden University celebrated its 445th foundation day on 7 February 2020.

The Young Academy Leiden welcomed six new members in 2020.

In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.

An overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2020, as well as special appointments at Leiden University and other institutions.

OPERA aims at establishing open and advanced research analytics practices and systems at Danish universities and in the Danish landscape of research analytics stakeholders.

The International Summer School ‘Global History in the 2020s’ (27-29 June 2023) for PhD candidates, is looking for applicants. The summer school is organized by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), and precedes the 7th European Congress on World and Global History (29 June…

PathOS aims to contribute to a better understanding and measurement of Open Science impacts and their causal mechanisms. This is pivotal in order to develop effective OS policy in the EU (European Union). It will do so by collecting concrete evidence of OS effects, by studying the pathways of OS practices,…

February 29 and 1 march 2020

Issue 1

Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker expressed his support in the media for 'The Real Opening,' the protest against government cuts. 'The plans are a disaster for higher education.' Professor Remco Breuker, one of the organisers of this protest on 2 September, called in NRC Handelsblad for a stop to the…

The aim of this study is to further develop the Open Science Monitor, which started as a pilot study.

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

In higher education, Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for anyone to use, but they are not widely used.

Feedback from fellow students on academic writing is as informative as that of teachers.

At Leiden University, we see open Science as the way to make a greater scientific and societal impact. There is also great momentum across the Netherlands for open science, and for good reason.

Open Access is an international development that aims at making research free and accessible for everyone. LUCAS supports the ideals and principles of Open Science. We are therefore hoping that all colleagues will be willing to contribute to the fulfilment of these ideals. But we realize that the developments…

Can we bring novel treatment options to the clinic for UM patients with liver metastases?

Open access (OA) refers to academic output that is freely available online, without restrictions. This hugely increases the visibility of research.

Getting your bachelor’s degree in Holland? Visit Leiden Universities Bachelor’s Open Day and explore which bachelor’s programme might suit you best.

On this page you find all the ways through which the Institute of Psychology aims to foster Open Science.

In the podcast series 'Open Geesten', historians Joost Welten and Nadia Bouras tell us about their research and how history is intergrated in modern society. In short: what can the past tell us about the present?

This accessible textbook uses key documents embedded in a clear narrative to chart the post-Cold War rise and decline of transatlantic relations. It provides a novel interpretive framework by proposing that the three decades between 1989 and 2020 represent a distinct ‘transatlantic era’.

Please follow the links below to the open MSc or PhD positions:

The NVIC library is a public, academic reference library. Entrance is free—no membership needed—and offers access to our book collection and two reading rooms, which have a WiFi connection. It is not possible to borrow books from our library.

The concept behind GraspOS is to build the European Federated Open Metrics Infrastructure in a decentralised way, where: different types of data come together to create metrics; tools and services are developed to improve EU or global infrastructures but are also shared with national or institutional…

The integrity and reliability of academic research are of fundamental importance to the University. All parties, both within the University and outside, must be able to have confidence that our research is conducted in a scrupulous, fair, verifiable, impartial and independent manner.