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Comenius teaching grants for four Leiden lecturers 03 May 2022
Four lecturers from Leiden University will receive a 50,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. This will enable them and their team to realise an ed...
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Newsletter Student Support FSW May 2022 03 May 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. ...
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’ 02 May 2022
What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what...
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University elections: student parties introduce themselves 28 April 2022
Better links with the job market, diversity, quality of education, student well-being and free coffee. All these are issues that the student parties t...
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ERC Advanced Grants for four Leiden researchers 26 April 2022
From a new generation of antibiotics and more-effective vaccines to a map of dark matter and new light on Hindu traditions. Four researchers from Leid...
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Leiden University turns the heating down by two degrees 22 April 2022
The thermostat in Leiden University’s buildings will be turned down by two degrees. The temperature will also be adjusted in rooms that are cooled. Th...
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‘Students have been treated like temporary residents for four centuries already’ 21 April 2022
The new Students for Leiden party pulled off a stunning victory in the municipal elections. From nowhere, the party won two seats on Leiden Municipal ...
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’ 21 April 2022
The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event 21 April 2022
Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Minor Artificial Intelligence and Society: Understanding the development and impact of AI 21 April 2022
The development of smart cars, video games that adapt to your gaming behaviour, law enforcement assigning your neighbourhood a risk score, insurance r...
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Health Day wins LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize 19 April 2022
Health Day has won the LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize (LUF RAP). This 5,000-euro prize is awarded to an initiative by Leiden University s...
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Parental criticism hurts: a glimpse inside the adolescent brain 19 April 2022
It may seem as though adolescents do as they please, but they are more sensitive to their parents’ opinions than they would appear. The adolescent bra...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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Anti-Asian racism deserves much more attention 14 April 2022
Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are ...
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Faculty Council FSW: an update on participation 14 April 2022
The academic year 2021-2022 is already past the halfway mark. That also means that the current members of the Faculty Council have been at work for mo...