450 news items found
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University elections: vote now! 19 May 2021
Your vote for the University and Faculty Council counts! The councils play an important role at the university. To vote click on the link in the right...
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Leiden students give commentary on games live on Twitch 17 May 2021
Three Leiden students will be sharing their knowledge of history while playing video games. The livestreams are part of the ‘Streaming the Past’ proj...
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‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’ 11 May 2021
How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other studen...
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This honours class makes you date your problem 11 May 2021
Theoretical research does not always give us the right solution to a problem in society. This message, loud and clear, is delivered during the final p...
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Join the discussion on the university's future direction 03 May 2021
What should our education and research look like in 2027? How can we make the university more sustainable and achieve greater impact? The new Strategi...
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Leiden University signs health and wellbeing agreement for city of Leiden 20 April 2021
Healthy and active Leideners and a smoke-free generation. These are the main ambitions of the Leiden Health and Wellbeing Agreement that was signed on...
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Student Jesper: personal and social entrepreneurship 15 April 2021
Jesper van Loon, a second-year Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences student, is a fully fledged entrepreneur. He was still a minor when he and his school frien...
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Queen Máxima pays a virtual visit to ‘StudentinzetopSchool’ 14 April 2021
Students from ‘StudentinzetopSchool’ help schoolchildren and gain valuable teaching experience at the same time. In an online visit on 13 April, Queen...
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Survey: Leiden students want to learn more about sustainability in their studies 07 April 2021
Students at Leiden University believe that their degree programmes should focus more on sustainability. These are the findings of a survey of more tha...
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Rector Hester Bijl on education in times of corona: ‘We have high hopes, but we are also realistic.' 06 April 2021
The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a ...
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Which Leiden alumni are in the Dutch House of Representatives? 01 April 2021
Of the 150 elected representatives, 24 studied or conducted their PhD research in Leiden. Who are they and which degrees are most popular among these ...
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Student Cabinet presents ‘coalition agreement’ 29 March 2021
The Student Cabinet, a shadow cabinet with students from the Dutch universities, has presented its first ‘coalition agreement’. As Minister for New De...
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‘Meeting new people is still very valuable’ 23 March 2021
Particularly during this time of social distancing and remote learning, it is important to carry on meeting new people – even if you don’t always feel...
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Students: ‘We want to be the most sustainable university in the world’ 23 March 2021
The students from the Leiden University Green Office have big ambitions and have outlined their recommendations in a new Green Paper. Like being the m...
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Over 3,600 euros for #wakeuptocorona thanks to NSE respondents 22 March 2021
Over the past weeks, thousands of students from Leiden University have filled in the National Student Survey (NSE). To thank them, the university is d...