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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers 21 April 2022
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’ 21 April 2022
The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event 21 April 2022
Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Minor Artificial Intelligence and Society: Understanding the development and impact of AI 21 April 2022
The development of smart cars, video games that adapt to your gaming behaviour, law enforcement assigning your neighbourhood a risk score, insurance r...
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Health Day wins LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize 19 April 2022
Health Day has won the LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize (LUF RAP). This 5,000-euro prize is awarded to an initiative by Leiden University s...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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Anti-Asian racism deserves much more attention 14 April 2022
Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are ...
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Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’ 12 April 2022
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. St...
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch 11 April 2022
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center...
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Towards a more diverse diversity policy: NWA subsidy for ‘Dilemmas of diversity’ project 08 April 2022
The ‘Dilemmas of diversity’ research project is to receive a subsidy of 1.8 million euros from the National Research Agenda (NWA). Coordinator Marlou ...
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Leiden University signs Declaration on Student Well-Being 06 April 2022
Leiden University and four other parties have signed a declaration in which they agree to improve the well-being of students in Leiden. They signed th...
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme 05 April 2022
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the...
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Classroom scanners in the Lipsius building tested by ethical hackers 29 March 2022
To check whether the classroom scanners are secure, a ‘pen test’ was performed in the Lipsius building on Monday 28 March. This involved switching on ...
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Leiden University may open new building in the centre of The Hague 28 March 2022
The Municipality of The Hague, Leiden University and CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM) will together try to realise a University building in the fo...
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Three new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minors 22 March 2022
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus is introducing three new minors this year: Space Missions, (Re)imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, and Living Education L...