450 news items found
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions 28 October 2024The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to ...
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique' 28 October 2024Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lect...
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika? 24 October 2024In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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Update Executive Board: Working groups looking at measures to absorb cuts 23 October 2024The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Update Executive Board: 'The Balanced Internationalisation Bill even stricter than we had feared' 22 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days 22 October 2024‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys 21 October 2024Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...
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Update Executive Board: Response to parliamentary letter on internationalisation 16 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Listening, asking questions and soaking up the atmosphere at the Bachelor’s Open Day 15 October 2024So many interesting programmes, but which one suits me best? It was the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague on Saturday 12 October. Among the ...
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Global Governance Journal comes to Leiden University 14 October 2024A Leiden-based team of researchers has taken over the editorship of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organ...
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The language of Russian propaganda 14 October 2024In 2014 Russia entered Ukraine and occupied Crimea, and about two and a half years ago it began a large-scale invasion. For Ukraine, it’s a war. But R...
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Executive Board and University Council discuss security measures 10 October 2024In a confidential meeting, the University Council (UR) and the Executive Board (CvB) have discussed security within our buildings, partly as a result ...
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities 09 October 2024Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Buildi...