450 news items found
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‘Digital services lean heavily on the social infrastructure’ 09 September 2024
Governments worldwide invest huge sums in their digital services and data strategies. Efficiency and effectiveness are key. But these are not achieved...
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Executive Board member Martijn Ridderbos to leave Leiden University 06 September 2024
Vice-chairman of the Executive Board Martijn Ridderbos will leave Leiden University at the end of this year. As of 1 January 2025, he will take up a n...
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Queen Máxima talks to students in Leiden about mental health 03 September 2024
How do you know if your idea has succeeded? The Queen coming to call a year and a half later might just be a clue. This happened to the Leiden student...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’ 02 September 2024
Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Var...
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Art Academy students design 450th anniversary logo 02 September 2024
In just a few months Leiden University will be celebrating its 450th anniversary. A celebration like this calls for a fitting logo. And that logo has ...
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Top 450 continues to grow: lawyer and feminist Lizzy van Dorp is the 100th entry 02 September 2024
Lawyer, economist, politician and women’s rights activist Lizzy van Dorp is the 100th entry in our Top 450. We are compiling this special list in the ...
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Is ‘LDE Space & Society’ for me? (and 4 other questions) 02 September 2024
Bridging the gap between the space sector and society, together with students from other disciplines. That’s the aim of the LDE Space & Society Honour...
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Koen Caminada appointed Dean of FGGA 02 September 2024
The Executive Board has appointed Prof. Koen Caminada as Dean of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Caminada has served as interim dean sin...
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What we are doing to ensure our students and staff can work and study safely 29 August 2024
In the last few days, reports have appeared in the media about security in our buildings. These have raised questions and caused concern. This is to i...
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AI-enabled ultrasound: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa 29 August 2024
In 2017 Enya Séguin graduated with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Leiden University College (LUC). Her interest in global public health le...
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Graduation ceremony BSc Security Studies: 'Look beyond your own beliefs' 28 August 2024
On Monday, August 26, there was a big party at Wijnhaven for the graduates of the BSc Security Studies. Among other things, a blue carpet was rolled o...
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Sign up for the Opening of the Academic Year on 2 September 27 August 2024
The Opening of the Academic Year 2024 will be held in Pieterskerk on Monday 2 September. This year’s theme is ‘Science for Policy’. Students, staff an...
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Fourteen hundred international students explore Leiden during OWL 26 August 2024
With its FestivOWL theme, Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) promises to be one big festival for new international students in Leiden. During this introduc...
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Five tips for The Night of Discoveries 26 August 2024
Discover budding creators, artists and researchers at the Night of Discoveries art and knowledge festival. And many researchers from Leiden University...
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Sun, sea, city and campus: 850 first-years get to know The Hague 19 August 2024
From chilling on the beach to a speech by the mayor. HOPweek is a speedy way for hundreds of ‘Leiden’ students who are going to be studying in The Hag...