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Training courses for student boards
As a board member or key figure within a student organisation, you can follow free training courses developed specifically for you. It is also possible for your whole board to follow a training course together as a team.
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450 years of Leiden University: anniversary wishes from students, staff, and alumni
During the Opening of the Academic Year 2024-2025, we asked guests for their wishes and ideas for Leiden University's anniversary year in 2025.
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Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’
An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freedom: these all featured in Leiden University’s 450th Dies Natalis celebration and the official start of its jubilee year.
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Welcome to the Science Student Plaza website!
Studying at university can be both challenging and rewarding. Alongside your courses, you might be balancing a social life, part-time work, and personal circumstances that require your time and energy.
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Academic calendar
The academic year officially commences on 1 September and ends on 31 August. Take a look how the year is organised and on which days the university is closed.
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Leiden University is travelling to the past and the future for its 450th birthday
Leiden University is celebrating its 450th anniversary in 2025 with a feast for the eyes, ears and spirit. The anniversary year opens with an extra special Dies Natalis on 7 February. Highlights includes an alumni festival, three exhibitions and a canal concert.
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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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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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Wanted: musical students, staff and alumni for the Leiden Canal Concert
Organisation, Social
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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The eternal student: exhibition travels through 450 years of studying
Over the centuries painters and photographers have depicted students at study in Leiden. An exhibition at the Hortus botanicus reveals the similarities and differences in 450 years of student life.
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Running Leiden Marathon in a 450th-anniversary t-shirt
Nearly 19,000 runners lined up at the start of Leiden Marathon on Sunday, among them students and staff from the university. For some this was their first race, for others a highlight of their year. This year, in celebration of our 450th anniversary, they ran in a special jubilee t-shirt.
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Liselotte KleineFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Meriem RebbaniFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eric Olijdam -
Pauline MemelinkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lisette PluimgraaffFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ilone de Vries-Lemaire -
Rhea MammenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Wiebke WiesigelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Michèle VerbergFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Daniel BertramFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Julia Cramer -
Evelien UrbanusFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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.
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Creativity for beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Saskia van der Werf-BijvoetFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marlena Antczak-Mackowiak -
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Regina NoortFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Grants for board members
Student organisations can request financial support from Leiden University to reward their board members.
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These are the nominees for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023
Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.
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New academic year: orientation weeks and opening ceremony
Social
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In 450 days... 450 years of Leiden University
In exactly 450 days’ time, on 8 February 2025, it is the university’s 450th anniversary. We are obviously going to celebrate this with our students, staff and friends. Do you have any ideas for this celebration?
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Memorial Year makes visible the continuing effects of historical slavery
Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…
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Update Executive Board: The consequences of the announced budget cuts
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
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Prime Minister gives lecture to first-year students
Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, gave a guest lecture to first-year law students at Leiden University. He spoke about democracy, the war in Ukraine and the role of the Netherlands.
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Leiden University Student Platform (LUS)
The Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) is a student-led ‘think-tank’. It consists of eight members: one representative from each of the seven faculties plus one chair.
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Photo report of the university float in the Grand Parade
The Grand Parade was a festive highlight of the 450th anniversary celebration of 3 October. Students and staff members from Leiden University participated with an impressive float.
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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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Bernardo Ribeiro de AlmeidaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Harry Fokkens