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Effective Networking @ The Bètabanenmarkt
Career and apply for jobs
- Election Debate: “Future Proof – The Netherlands in Transition”
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Anniversary activity: City Pier City Run
450 years
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Thesis Group Writing Lab, first semester 2025/26
Study support
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Internship Market
Career and apply for jobs
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Earth Day 2025 celebration The Hague
Lecture, Workshop
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Sea of Possibilities (NL/EN): map your next year
Career and apply for jobs, Study support
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Sea of Possibilities (NL/EN): map your next year
Career and apply for jobs, Study support
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Workshop Competences in Humanities
Career and apply for jobs
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Compass on Purpose - Explore what matters to help you choose (NL/EN)
Career and apply for jobs, Study support, Study support
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Entrepreneurship in Action - Alternative Reality: Think Like an Entrepreneur (cancelled)
Career and apply for jobs
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Nasreen Javanjoo reflects on the 'Care and the Jewish Experience' Conference
The "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference, organized by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network, hosted many talented young researchers alongside established scholars of different fields. Our guests got a chance to listen to a great presentation titled “Women of Valor: Tradwives and the Sacralization…
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‘People are equal but not the same’: diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective
What is written in law and what equality, inclusion and diversity mean in practice is not always the same. This was the focus of this year’s D&I symposium on 13 January. The plenary sessions were watched by hundreds of participants and there was a wide range of workshops covering different aspects of…
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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‘Divisions are there to be bridged’
Annetje Ottow is stepping down as President of Leiden University’s Executive Board on 1 September 2025 after almost five years in the role. She looks back at the highs and lows – and ahead to what’s next.
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
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Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligence, justice, trauma, parenting, faith and hope. All these…
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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Executive Board column: Let’s be alert to unacceptable behaviour
This is a difficult time. Above all, for all those directly involved in this horrible case – unacceptable behaviour by a professor and his removal from the University – the case we went public about on 18 October and that has been reported in the media. This is painful and tough for the complainants…
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‘If we want to be really inclusive, we need to step outside our comfort zone’
The experiential expertise of people with a disability needs to be integrated in diversity & inclusion policy. This message was the common thread at the annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. Students and staff members engaged in conversation about how the university can become more accessible.
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Warm welkom voor nieuwe studenten tijdens EL CID
On a sunny Lammermarkt, thousands of new students gathered to kick off their student life in Leiden at the 56th edition of EL CID.
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University Council chair : ‘You have to be patient but you really can make a difference’
The university elections are approaching. Are you going to represent student and staff interests this coming year? University Council chair Pauline Vincenten gives a peek behind the scenes at student and staff participation at Leiden University. ‘I get so much energy from collaborating with the students…
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Una Europa Community Meet-up for students: free to attend!
Community Meet-up & Networking
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Universiteit Leiden at Impact Fair 2025
Beurs
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Thesis Support Group Leiden & the Hague
Study support
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Prepare Yourself for the Bio Science Park Excursion
Career and apply for jobs
- Workshop Money matters: get answers to all your money-related questions
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Workshop Doubts about your choice of Study/Study rechoice
Career and apply for jobs
- Workshop: Enjoy free pizza while helping to build your Una Europa Local Task Force
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Join the Gorlaeus biodiversity walk
Walk
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Inspiration session art project [s]TATTOO
Share your ideas on social safety
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Study Structure Group (POPcorner FSW) 2026 (ENG)
Study support
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AIED SIG: Beyond the Hype – AI in Educational Practice
Lecture and demo
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Liberation Festival The Hague
Festival
- Give your physical and mental health a boost during Student Well-being Week
- Leiden University's Winter Weeks
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Playing with words
Arts and leisure, Personal development, Language, Arts and leisure
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Transformational leadership: Capacity Building for Equitable and Sustainable Change
Study support
- Behind the screen: consent and harassment in online dating
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Uni-visions: Hope, heat and wonder in 2075
Arts and culture, Studium Generale
- Europe's geopolitical power in the face of America's authoritarian turn
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Dialogue Session on Leiden University’s Colonial and Slavery Past
Dialogue session
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D&I Symposium 2026: ‘You can’t call something inclusive if it doesn’t include everyone’
How can our university really become inclusive? This is what students and staff discussed at our annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. ‘It’s moving from a have-to to a want-to’
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Tailoring support for refugee students: ‘They are amazed at the number of options’
Many people have fled to the Netherlands since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, including students. But even before this war, students with refugee backgrounds were eager to study at Leiden University. How does the University help young people from various backgrounds find their way around the Dutch…
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Leiden University joins national 113 campaign: ‘It’s okay to feel uncomfortable about talking about suicide’
Talking about suicide is important, but anything but comfortable. To make this difficult subject easier for students and staff to discuss, the university is organising a campaign week in line with the national campaign ‘1K Z1E J3’ (I see you) being run by Stichting 113 Zelfmoordpreventie (113 is the…
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Student Bram wanted to be mayor as a boy
Bram Geurds (20) is fascinated by politics. When he was 12, a political debate on TV caught his attention. And he decided he wanted to be mayor one day. Unsurprisingly, Bram is studying political science and is politically active. It might seem like he’s on course to become a professional politician.…