436 news items found
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Help us prevent student burnout! 30 April 2021
We are looking for students who are 16 years or older and are studying at a Dutch mbo, hbo or university. Our aim is to gain insight into the needs an...
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ERC Advanced Grant for six Leiden researchers 22 April 2021
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established princip...
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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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‘A donor organ is a precious gift that we should treat with care’ 19 April 2021
Professor André Baranski is a champion for improving organ procurement. He believes there should be standardised training and certification for procur...
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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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LUMC lecturer Arianna Pranger in Lecturer of the Year 2021 final 23 March 2021
Hospital pharmacist and lecturer on the master’s programme in pharmacy Arianna Pranger has made it to the final of the Lecturer of the Year 2021 compe...
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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...
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OCW-survey on codetermination in higher education 22 March 2021
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has started a survey to identify the success factors of a strong codetermination culture wi...