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Put away those textbooks and relax: the Living Room is open 23 February 2023
Leiden University opened the doors of its new Living Room on Thursday 16 February. The Living Room is a home from home where Dutch and international s...
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Climate activist Aniek Moonen to give Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture 23 February 2023
Every year Leiden University holds the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on or around International Women’s Day on 8 March. This year’s lecture will be g...
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers 23 February 2023
Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applica...
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Prime Minister gives lecture to first-year students. ‘Democracy will always be stronger than tyranny’ 22 February 2023
A year after the start of the war in Ukraine, Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, gave a guest lecture to first-year law students in the Cleveringa ...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support 22 February 2023
A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Campus The Hague welcomes their new exchange students 16 February 2023
On Friday 3 February, all new incoming exchange students for the Spring semester were invited to attend their own Faculty’s introduction session. The ...
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Electric boats will make University construction projects cleaner 15 February 2023
No more smelly lorries disposing of building waste or delivering building materials to the centre of Leiden. That’s Leiden University’s ambition for i...
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Proposed decision by Minister Kuipers: Children’s heart surgery to end in Leiden 14 February 2023
Ernst Kuipers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, announced on 13 February that he plans to remove children’s heart surgery from the Centre for Co...
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Executive Board decision after University Council advice: People counters will not be switched on again 14 February 2023
The more than 370 sensors that have been hung up in Leiden University buildings to count the people present will not be switched on again. The equipme...
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Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between ISGA and Fukushima University 13 February 2023
Last January Jake Wright and Andrea Bartolucci of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) traveled to Japan and visited some Japanese Inst...
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Two ISGA research projects receive NWO Open Competition grant 13 February 2023
A total of 21 Leiden researchers have successfully applied for the NWO SGW Open Competition XS. Two of the rewarded projects come from FGGA researcher...
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Lars Gerrits: 'This internship gave me confirmation of what I want to do next' 13 February 2023
Lars Gerrits is studying Public Administration at Leiden University. After his minor European Union Studies, he decided to do an internship for the ec...
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Final meeting The Hague Southwest Thesis Project: practice and theory come together 13 February 2023
During the final meeting of the Thesis Project on 10 February at 'Pand Zuidwest' in The Hague, several students presented their theses. Students from ...
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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis 08 February 2023
The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came u...
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Five questions on event 'Leadership in the digital transition' 06 February 2023
Minister Alexandra van Huffelen will attend the 'Leadership in the digital transition' event at Campus Wijnhaven organised by Alex Ingrams on 16 Febru...