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Opinion piece Luc Sels: What The Hague sees more clearly than Brussels 22 September 2026Both Dutch and European leaders speak about research and innovation in their plans for the future. But the Netherlands is now making the case for them...
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New student and staff representatives: ‘It’s easy to criticise, but you also need to build bridges’ 22 September 2026A new academic year also marks the start of a new term for student and staff representatives. Two new council members tell us what motivates them and ...
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Research into Roman board game nominated for ‘Research of the Year’ 21 September 2026Leiden researcher Walter Crist and his team reconstructed the rules of a 2,000-year-old board game. For this extraordinary research, Quest magazine ha...
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Universities strengthen research collaboration with Ministry of Defence 21 September 2026The Dutch universities will strengthen their research collaboration with the Ministry of Defence.
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European scientists sign open letter on relaxation of pesticide regulations 16 September 2026More than 500 scientists and doctors from the EU are calling on the European Parliament to suspend its consideration of new European regulations on fo...
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Budget Day: government invests in higher education and research again 16 September 2026The government will invest more than €580 million extra per year in higher education and research in the coming years. This largely reverses the earli...
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Not all roads lead to Rome, researchers conclude in Nature 15 September 2026Although Rome was the political centre of the Roman Empire, geographically it lay closer to the edge of the road network than to its centre. That is t...
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Ancient trees reveal how the climate and landscape changed 15 September 2026Remains of trees that grew thousands of years ago can tell us how the climate and the landscape changed in the distant past. In his inaugural lecture,...
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From Egypt to Panama: Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grants awarded 11 September 2026Five Leiden University projects will receive an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grant this year for exchange projects with non-European partner...
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Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants 09 September 2026Researchers Caspar Jacobs (philosophy) and Fiamma Salerno (immunology) have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2026. Jacobs will study mathematical eq...
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King to receive findings of research into his family’s role in colonial history 09 September 2026King Willem-Alexander will visit Leiden University on Friday 2 October, where he will receive the results of an independent study of the role of the H...
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NIOD Director Martijn Eickhoff is the new Cleveringa Professor 08 September 2026Martijn Eickhoff, a cultural historian and Director of the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), has been appointed the Cleveringa...
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Archaeologist Rachel Schats wins LUS Teaching Prize 2026 07 September 2026Associate Professor and Education Director Rachel Schats has won the LUS Teaching Prize 2026. The award was presented during the Opening of the Academ...
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Twenty-five years on: what was the impact of 9/11 on the Netherlands? 07 September 2026Was 9/11 a turning point for Dutch society? Twenty-five years on, researcher Thijs van Dooremalen puts that idea into perspective. He compares the imp...
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Sustainable fish on the menu: Leiden Leadership Programme students collaborate with the Marine Stewardship Council 02 September 2026How do you get sustainably caught fish onto more plates at events? That was the question a student team from the Leiden Leadership Programme (LLP) set...