450 news items found
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Opening Academic Year: maximum of 75 attendees 27 August 2021
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 person...
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‘This mentor group will be their new family’ 25 August 2021
For many a first-year, student life has well and truly begun. This also applies to students in The Hague, who were thrown in at the deep end during th...
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EL CID 2021: a great start in a friendly city 16 August 2021
‘Leiden is small, friendly and welcoming,’ says new first-year student Ayla Russel. Strong wind and heavy showers were forecast for the first in-perso...
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‘We can learn a lot from one another about student well-being’ 12 August 2021
Student well-being is an enormously broad subject. Students and researchers can gain inspiration and exchange knowledge at the online EUniWell symposi...
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IncLUsion helps asylum seekers study: ‘It has given me self-confidence’ 06 August 2021
Studying as an asylum seeker without a residence permit. Every year, student initiative IncLUsion enables dozens of asylum seekers to take several cou...
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Educational innovation at Humanities: 'Students are great initiators’ 02 August 2021
In the academic year 2018 - 2019, the Faculty of Humanities established the Educational Innovation Programme. In this way, the faculty wants to realis...
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Olympic gold for Industrial Ecology student Dirk Uittenbogaard 28 July 2021
Dirk Uittenbogaard, a student on the Delft-Leiden Master’s in Industrial Ecology, has won a gold medal for rowing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Uitte...
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’ 15 July 2021
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights ...
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Luris transition: important changes to organisational structure and working methods 13 July 2021
Luris supports and advises researchers and societal partners on knowledge transfer, research impact and public-private partnerships between researcher...
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President Annetje Ottow helps fish plastic out of the canal 12 July 2021
Every Sunday you can help fish plastic and other floating garbage out of the Leiden canals. You can use your own canoe or loan one from Plastic Spotte...
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Meeting participants provide input for Strategic Plan 12 July 2021
In its Strategic Plan Leiden University sets its direction for the coming years. A new plan will be presented next year, and in the runup to this we a...
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Bringing a community together with soup 12 July 2021
As part of her Anthropology studies, Leiden student Marleen Kop has made a short documentary about the importance of Leiden-Noord’s ‘soup time’. Her c...
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Anyone can fall victim to cybercrime 12 July 2021
Criminology students Simone Kruijt and Noor Hekker conducted research into cybercrime in Leiden and presented their findings to the regional police an...
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Covid influences sustainability at Leiden University too in 2020 05 July 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has had us working and studying at home, and this has had a positive effect on Leiden University’s sustainability results. Th...
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles 29 June 2021
After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders ...