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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Update Executive Board: 'The Balanced Internationalisation Bill even stricter than we had feared' 22 October 2024The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days 22 October 2024‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Nina Schmal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2024 21 October 2024Successfully completing a master’s thesis in Political Science is no small feat. Not only is this for most students the most extensive and in-depth re...
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Crash course in journalism: students make a podcast with TV presenter Twan Huys 21 October 2024Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...
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Kaare Strøm award for institute member Thijs Vos 17 October 2024This summer, political scientist Thijs Vos received the Kaare Strøm prize for his paper ‘Power or Ideology? What structures legislative voting behavio...
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Update Executive Board: Response to parliamentary letter on internationalisation 16 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...
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Listening, asking questions and soaking up the atmosphere at the Bachelor’s Open Day 15 October 2024So many interesting programmes, but which one suits me best? It was the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague on Saturday 12 October. Among the ...
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Executive Board and University Council discuss security measures 10 October 2024In a confidential meeting, the University Council (UR) and the Executive Board (CvB) have discussed security within our buildings, partly as a result ...
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Adina Akbik wins Student-led Teaching Award 10 October 2024This September, Adina Akbik received the Political Science Teaching Award at Leiden University. Created by student members of the Bachelor's and Maste...
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities 09 October 2024Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Buildi...
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University couple marries ‘in front of all of Leiden’ on 3 October 09 October 2024They have known each other since they were small but Rianne and Tom first fell in love when working together at the university. That love culminated i...
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Children pay more attention to art when descriptions are playful and interactive 09 October 2024The description of a painting directly affects how children look at that artwork. This was discovered by psychologist Francesco Walker in the Rijksmus...
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Update Executive Board: The consequences of the announced budget cuts 08 October 2024
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regul...