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‘This mentor group will be their new family’ 25 August 2021For many a first-year, student life has well and truly begun. This also applies to students in The Hague, who were thrown in at the deep end during th...
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EL CID 2021: a great start in a friendly city 16 August 2021‘Leiden is small, friendly and welcoming,’ says new first-year student Ayla Russel. Strong wind and heavy showers were forecast for the first in-perso...
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‘We can learn a lot from one another about student well-being’ 12 August 2021Student well-being is an enormously broad subject. Students and researchers can gain inspiration and exchange knowledge at the online EUniWell symposi...
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Olympic gold for Industrial Ecology student Dirk Uittenbogaard 28 July 2021Dirk Uittenbogaard, a student on the Delft-Leiden Master’s in Industrial Ecology, has won a gold medal for rowing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Uitte...
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’ 15 July 2021Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights ...
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Luris transition: important changes to organisational structure and working methods 13 July 2021Luris supports and advises researchers and societal partners on knowledge transfer, research impact and public-private partnerships between researcher...
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President Annetje Ottow helps fish plastic out of the canal 12 July 2021Every Sunday you can help fish plastic and other floating garbage out of the Leiden canals. You can use your own canoe or loan one from Plastic Spotte...
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Meeting participants provide input for Strategic Plan 12 July 2021In its Strategic Plan Leiden University sets its direction for the coming years. A new plan will be presented next year, and in the runup to this we a...
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Bringing a community together with soup 12 July 2021As part of her Anthropology studies, Leiden student Marleen Kop has made a short documentary about the importance of Leiden-Noord’s ‘soup time’. Her c...
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Anyone can fall victim to cybercrime 12 July 2021Criminology students Simone Kruijt and Noor Hekker conducted research into cybercrime in Leiden and presented their findings to the regional police an...
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Covid influences sustainability at Leiden University too in 2020 05 July 2021The coronavirus pandemic has had us working and studying at home, and this has had a positive effect on Leiden University’s sustainability results. Th...
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles 29 June 2021After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders ...
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Support the Rapidemic team and help them develop a mobile testing kit 28 June 2021A team of students from Leiden won the iGEM international biology contest in 2020 with their Rapidemic mobile testing kit. The kit makes it easy to de...
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Healthy University Leiden: keeping up the momentum 28 June 2021Healthy University Leiden held its ‘From #COVID to #GOFIT Week’ from 21 to 25 June. Over 600 students and staff found inspiration in a week full of t...
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High response to NSE 2021: Leiden students fairly satisfied despite coronavirus 23 June 2021Leiden students are fairly satisfied with their degree programme. This is clear from the first results of the National Student Survey 2021, which was ...