3,424 search results for “leiden” in the Student website
-
Opening academic year 2025-2026
Academic ceremony
-
Chinese New Year Festival Reception
New year reception
-
Chinese New Year Festival Reception
Festival, New year reception
-
Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2025
Conference
-
Opening of the academic year
University ceremony
-
Consent panel discussion - Join the conversation
Debate
-
Dies Natalis
University ceremony
-
Student Jesper: personal and social entrepreneurship
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 friend Max started their own business, BLIJLES Bollenstreek, which has now expanded to the Midden-Holland and Haarlemmermeer areas. ‘This is what I want, but…
-
Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community
Buurtlab 070 is a new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together on climate, sustainability and biodiversity solutions. What do they expect of the lab?
-
‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
-
Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greatest attribute. The principle of equality and the right not to be discriminated against are in the very first article of our constitution. Yet there is a…
-
What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
-
SHout! - Walk-in session for all your questions about finance
Study information
-
Study Skills 2025-2026 (various aspects)
Study support
-
Exhibition The eternal student
Exhibition
-
Blue Monday well-being moment
Well-Being
-
Anniversary activity: City Pier City Run
450 years
-
Country Meeting Nigeria: Elections panel discussion
Debate
- Purple Friday: Embodying the Change We Want to See
-
Collecting Global Heritage
Conference
-
Human rights and Global Diversity
Lecture, Opening of the Owada Chair
-
Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
-
Opening academic year
University ceremony
-
Career College: Working as a Data Scientist
Career and apply for jobs
-
Join the Gorlaeus biodiversity walk
Walk
-
Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
-
The First 20 Years: Reconsidering European Union Enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe
Conference, Conversation
-
Anniversary activity: Canal concert
Arts and culture
-
Anniversary activity: SUP for Sustainability
450 jaar
-
LUS Publecture
Lecture
- Workshop: How to manage your finances in 2023 (SHout!)
-
Film Screening: Crip Camp
Arts and culture, Conference | D&I Symposium
-
Spring in your step – Nature Walk
Student wellbeing
-
Lunch meeting for starting student organisations/associations
Lunch meeting
-
3 October University: Science Market
Festival
-
UAF Meet-Up Region South-West
Arts and culture
-
Belonging first: in conversation about an accessible university
D&I Event
-
Luchtkwaliteit in Beeld
Experiment
-
‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
-
‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’
Professor of International Relations Daniel Thomas is clear: anyone taking peace in Europe for granted is shutting their eyes to reality.
-
Lessons for better education
If you could design your own education, how would you do it? That is what the students of the Bachelor Honours Class 'Rebuilding Education' asked themselves. The students were divided into five groups in which they designed workshops to improve education. They presented their workshops in December in…
-
‘Grassroots projects can help democracy’
Democracy is under pressure all over the world. With the #DemocracyinAction project, university lecturers Sara Brandellero and Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues want to investigate how grassroots art projects manage to keep democracy alive.
-
Critical thinking? Or rather generous thinking?
‘Critical thinking’ is an expression all academics have heard of: it’s the first learning objective in the Leiden Vision on Teaching and Learning. It’s both a historical topic with roots that reach back a long way and a topical problem too. The question on everyone’s lips is whether critical thinking…
-
‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
-
Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
-
University working hard to create a safer work and study environment
Since the demonstration over a year ago on the Wijnhaven campus, Leiden University has developed plans and initiatives to create the safest possible work and study environment for our university community. The Executive Board would like to explain what has happened since and what else we can expect…
-
Student Mitchell takes part in water council elections: 'Young people don't know how important their vote is'
History student Mitchell Wiegand Bruss is taking part in the water council elections. Whereas until recently he had no idea what the governing body stands for, he now wants to create awareness among other students about the political body.
-
What will it be like to study in 2075? Uni-visionaries help shape the university’s future
LEGO creations, a clothesline of visions and a journey into the past and the future: just some of the highlights of Uni-vision day, where creatives developed their vision of the future of study.
-
Mensenrechten overal anders geïnterpreteerd. Hoe kan dat?
Hoe kan het dat universele mensenrechten wereldwijd niet hetzelfde in de praktijk worden gebracht?
-
Erwin Muller appointed Vice-Rector of Organisational Development
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed Erwin Muller as Vice Rector of Organisational Development. In this role, he will help further professionalise and improve the university’s organisation as per the Strategic Plan.