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Campus The Hague expands into Central Innovation District in The Hague
Leiden University’s Campus the Hague is soon to expand into the Central Innovation District in the centre of The Hague. Plans are under way for a Cam...
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Caring Universities: students struggling with coronavirus pandemic
Students have experienced more mental health problems such as anxiety, stress and low mood since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic than before....
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Healthy University Week: ta-da and to do
During Healthy University Week, from 26 to 30 October, staff could choose from 63 workshops, talks and other online healthy university activities. We ...
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New international platform campaigns for children’s rights
From the rights of refugee children to the right to a sustainable Earth. The online platform Leiden Children's Rights Observatory makes information on...
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Student mentor Tatum Meijer: ‘Face it together during this challenging academic year'
Every year, student mentors are appointed for first-year students at Leiden University. These mentors help new students with getting started. Tatum Me...
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Postdocs unite in representative body
Young academics often face uncertainties in their academic careers. It is for precisely this reason that Leiden postdocs recently united in a represen...
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Coronavirus student campaign launched: ‘For student life. That’s why’
The National Chamber of Student Associations (LKvV) launched a coronavirus campaign today: ‘That’s why.’ The campaign was launched together with Ingri...
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How does social distancing affect the relationship between population groups?
Hardly ever before have different groups in the population retreated into their own bubble as much as they are doing today. Professor of Sociology and...
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WHO KNOWS theme of Leiden European City of Science 2022
Leiden will be scientific capital of Europe in 2022. The theme of the festivities was announce on 28 October: Who Knows. After all, does anyone have a...
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Leiden students relatively positive about online teaching
The students at Leiden University are satisfied with the online teaching that they received in the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The...
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The Golden Dawn verdict and the inescapable element of language
On 7 October, a court in Athens, Greece, convicted leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn party as directing a criminal organization. Marina Terkourafi,...
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‘Safety of Journalism – more urgent than ever’
Register now for the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 digital edition (9 – 10 December 2020)!
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Peter Burger: 'I investigate where a strange story comes from.'
Peter Burger is a university lecturer at the master in Journalism and New Media and co-founder of Nieuwscheckers. He now teaches the course Factchecke...
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Corona measures in student housing: ‘Visitors are ony allowed when everyone agrees’
In many student cities, the number of corona infections grows, and in Leiden we can also see rising figures. Especially in student housing, it is some...
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Using the placebo effect for your health
Even if you have a healthy lifestyle, there's a lot to experience and learn during the Healthy University Week, from 26 to 30 October. Health psycholo...