741 search results for “european space agency esa ” in the Staff website
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Lasse van den Dikkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Question fire for ambassadors Germany and France during debate
Europe lives! This became clear last Friday when students debated with the French ambassador to the Netherlands, H.E. Luis Vassy, and his German colleague, H.E. Dirk Brengelmann, on a range of topics relating to Franco-German relations and the European Union.
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Launch of Marco Bronckers’ Liber Amicorum
On 2 June 2023, the Liber Amicorum – 'The EU and the WTO: Ever the Twain Shall Meet' – in honour of Marco Bronckers will be officially launched at Leiden Law School. To mark this special occasion, an interactive discussion on 'Five future challenges facing the EU and the WTO in the next 50 years' will…
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Imagine you’re Ilias from Turkey
In the confrontational ‘House of Misconceptions’, visitors put themselves in another person’s shoes and have to justify their existence. The performance is the result of a unique collaboration between the Liquid Society art collective and Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude and her st…
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Martijn Nouwen in Der Spiegel About the New EU Code of Conduct Against Harmful Tax Practices
Der Spiegel reports about the planned reform of the EU Code of Conduct aimed at tackling harmful tax practices of EU Member States. A reform is urgently needed to tackle remaining forms of tax competition, which cost EU countries billons of euros every year.
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EU Seminar and debate on the European Parliament’s Sakharov prize
Debate, Seminar
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Gateways for Humanity: The Duty to Reason in the Automated State
On 6 June 2023, Melanie Fink gave a ‘conférence’ at the University of Liège, Belgium in the context of its EU Studies Seminar Cycle, organised by Ljupcho Grozdanovski.
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Successful launch of Liber Amicorum in honour of Marco Bronckers
On Friday 2 June 2023, the Europa Institute launched the Liber Amicorum – “The EU and the WTO: Ever the Twain Shall Meet” – in honour of Marco Bronckers. To mark the special occasion, a panel discussion on five major challenges facing the EU and the WTO in the next fifty years was held.
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The European Precariat: The Protection of Precarious Workers in the European Union
PhD defence
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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Adoption leave and fostering leave
If you adopt a child, you are entitled to a maximum of six weeks of paid adoption leave. If you adopt several children at the same time, you are entitled to one period of adoption leave only. If you are a foster carer, you are entitled to six weeks of fostering leave. This is on the provision that the…
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Printed materials and templates
Do you need business cards, letter paper or other materials printed? Or do you need flyers, posters, roll-up banners or theses? Please contact the Graphic Centre of the University Services Department. They can also be hired to do layout or DTP work. The Graphic Centre can also produce displays, advertising…
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Reporting sick and guidance during sick leave
If you are unable to come to work due to sickness, find out below how to report sick and how the University guides its employees on sick leave.
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Leiden workshop on post-consumer textile 'waste’ in the Netherlands (and beyond)
On Thursday 30 May, Leiden University hosts a workshop to foster collaborations to improve the governance of European textile waste export. Different stakeholders, including municipalities, associations of textile collectors and sorters, industry and consumers associations, are warmly invited to join…
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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Jannemieke Ouwerkerk on transfer Mallorca assault case to the Netherlands
The suspects of the fatal assault on Mallorca will be investigated in the Netherlands. If the Dutch Public Prosecution Service sees sufficient reason to prosecute the suspects, then a Dutch court will consider the case.
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Leiden PhD student discovers thin atmosphere on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c with JWST
A group of astronomers led by Leiden PhD student Sebastian Zieba has discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c has a thin atmosphere. Although the planet is nearly identical to Venus in size and temperature, and was expected to have a thick atmosphere,…
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Testimonies, Spatial Photography: Aerial imagery and photogrammetry in spaces of conflict and colonisation
Lecture
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Freya Baetens writes fact sheet on free trade agreements for Dutch Lower House
Free trade negotiations and agreements are important instruments of EU trade policy. An increasing number of EU climate, environmental and sustainable development objectives play a role in free trade agreements.
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ERC Consolidator grant for Alessandra Silvestri: putting gravity to the test on cosmological scales
Does gravity work the same when you look at the largest scales in our universe? That’s what Leiden physicist Alessandra Silvestri will study with a 2 million euro ERC Consolidator grant. ‘We assume that it does, but we don’t actually know.’
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Jannemieke Ouwerkerk comments on surrender of suspects fatal assault Mallorca
One week ago a group of Dutch men were attacked out of the blue by another group of Dutch tourists on the Spanish island of Mallorca. One of the victims later died as a result of his injuries. The Spanish police know who the suspects are, but those men are in the Netherlands.
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An EU with a higher EQ
How do you increase the EU’s EQ so that citizens and countries feel a greater sense of belonging and safety in the EU, and the countries work better together? To answer this question, Professor of European Law Armin Cuyvers works, among others, with social psychologists. Inaugural lecture on 9 Decem…
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Harold Koster
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nisida Gjoksi
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Tijmen Pronk
Faculty of Humanities
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Taking Up Space: Waste and Waste Labor in Developing South Korea
PhD defence
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Director of the MIVD General Swillens visits ISGA to talk about intelligence cooperation
On 15 December, Director of the MIVD General Jan Swillens, visited the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) to give a lecture on international intelligence cooperation together with ISGA/NLDA researcher Pepijn Tuinier. This event, co-organised by the Intelligence and Security Group and the…
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Testimonies, Spatial Photography: Aerial imagery and photogrammetry in spaces of conflict and colonisation
Lecture
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NGOs and Refugees in European History
PhD defence
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Omar Al Sadeh: ‘My heart told me to go to Foreign Affairs’
Trail, FGGA’s internship platform will be one-year old in November. In the upcoming weeks, we will be interviewing some FGGA students who went on internships. What did they learn from their internships? And what tasks were assigned to them?
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Rethinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer Agency along China-Africa Fashion Value Chains
Lecture, China Seminar
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Open Q&A with the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Lecture
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Towards a Muslim Futurist Movement: On the Power of Imagining, Space Building, and Community
Lecture, LUCIS Meets | Masterclass
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Guest lecture Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor
Lecture
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Negotiating Europeanness: Race, Class, and Culture in the Colonial World
Conference, Workshop
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First images from the James Webb telescope
Lecture
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Algorithms and the Rule of Law in the Justice System: Melanie Fink on the Future of Justice in Estonia and Beyond
On 24 March 2023, the University of Tartu, Estonia hosted a Workshop on ‘'Algorithms, Rule of Law, and the Future of Justice: Implications in the Estonian Justice System’.
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Vincent Delhomme successfully defends his PhD on the regulation of lifestyle risks in EU law
On Friday 2 June 2023, Vincent Delhomme, Assistant professor at the Europe Institute at Leiden Law School, successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled : ‘Regulating lifestyle risks in EU law: Promoting health in a diverse market’.
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'Level-headed Dutch are just as susceptible to fear as the British'
Fishermen in the United Kingdom recently protested about the adverse effects of Brexit on their trade. It would be naive to think that covert feelings of being under threat do not exist among the Dutch population. Citizens who feel threatened become defensive, a situation that could lead to a Nexit.
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Official opening of Leiden European City of Science 2022
Festival
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"Citizen Diplomacy, New Diplomatic History, and Questions of Historical Agency"
Lecture, 7th ENIUGH congress
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Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) 3rd International Conference
Conference
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Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode
PhD defence
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What's inside a giant planet? Yamila Miguel will find out with an ERC Consolidator Grant
Discovering what is inside giant planets and their atmosphere, that is one of the goals of astronomer Yamila Miguel. With an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 million euro, she will study giant planets both inside and outside our solar system. ‘We want to know more about how planetary systems are born, how…
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Students once again explore archaeology Oss
Students of the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology once again explore the archaeology of Oss between April and May of 2023. New areas along the Gewandeweg will be investigated. The local news platform DTV Nieuws featured an article about it.
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Colourful prehistoric ‘Chanel dress’ goes on show
The reconstruction of a dress worn in the Netherlands nearly 3000 years ago has gone on display in Oss, and shows that, contrary to popular opinion, woman from that time liked cheerful colours. Leiden archaeologists were involved in both the find of the dress as well as its reconstruction.
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Lydie Cabane in E-International Relations on Improving EU Response to Pandemics
Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor at ISGA, has written an article in E-International Relations to discuss the key lessons from other crisis management domains to improve the EU response to pandemics.
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School