260 search results for “funeral innovation” in the Student website
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Digital education: what’s working well and what can we improve?
Nearly a year since the abrupt switchover to mostly online learning, the Digital Education seminar gave teaching staff the opportunity to review their experiences. What can stay in 2021 and what must go? Frequently voiced opinions: yes please to digital tools that make lectures more interactive; yes…
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Five questions for Thijs Bosker about Local Actions
Sustainability challenges don’t just call for environmental scientists – they require expertise from many academic fields. Thijs Bosker and Paul Behrens have made it easier for university lecturers to integrate sustainability into their courses. Their initiative, Local Actions, offers ready-made teaching…
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‘The ancient Egyptians were concerned with more than just death’
When we think about ancient Egypt, the first things that come to mind are usually mummies and sarcophagi. According to researcher and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden curator Lara Weiss, that impression is unjustified. She made an audio tour for the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden that focuses on living Egyptians…
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga & Louk van Doorn win the DT4REGIONS Ideathon on AI Potential for Preventive Healthcare
eLaw - Center of Law and Digital technologies from Leiden Law School, and the Vascular Surgery Department at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, join forces to explore the use of AI for diabetes and secondary prevention of diabetic foot problems and won a prize for it.
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Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
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Rachel SchatsFaculty of Archaeology
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Electric car batteries can help drive the clean electricity transition
As early as 2030, batteries in electric vehicles could fully meet the need for short-term electricity storage around the world. By connecting them to the power grid they can provide their stored energy, improving energy security and enabling renewable technologies in cleaning the grid.
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Rubicon grant for Remko Fermin: superconducting diodes for energy-efficient data centres
Physicist Remko Fermin from Leiden University was awarded a Rubicon grant from NWO. He will use it to study superconducting diodes that could contribute to reducing the CO2 emission of data centres.
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‘Teach young people to take control of technology’
Technology is spreading its tendrils into the classroom. But who is in control?
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What the Leiden Teaching Prize has meant for three past winners
You win the Leiden Teaching Prize and suddenly all eyes are on you. Three past recipients reflect on how this student-awarded prize has changed how they work and improved their teaching – and how they chose to spend the money.
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Júlia García PuigFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Rudolf PoolmanFaculty of Medicine
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Thijs van OschFaculty of Medicine
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Andrei PoamaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Rob NelissenFaculty of Medicine
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Patrick DegryseFaculty of Archaeology
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Christi van AsperenFaculty of Medicine
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Carien CreutzbergFaculty of Medicine
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Jelle GoemanFaculty of Medicine
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Peter DevileeFaculty of Medicine
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Jessica Kiefte-de JongFaculty of Medicine
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Martin TaphoornFaculty of Medicine
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Ingrid MeulenbeltFaculty of Medicine
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Robert KlautzFaculty of Medicine
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Saskia le CessieFaculty of Medicine
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Josette DaemenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Peter van der ZwanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rob TollenaarFaculty of Medicine
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Monica van WinkelICLON
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Anne StiggelboutFaculty of Medicine
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Sarah GiestFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Olaf DekkersFaculty of Medicine
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Ludo JuurlinkICLON
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FSW Education Festival 2025
Conference
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Master’s students create Graduate Journal: ‘It represents the development we’ve achieved’
A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal where Humanities master’s students can prepare for an academic career by publishing articles themselves.
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Circular fuel: researchers and technicians work hand in hand on tomorrow’s solutions
From a meaningless block of plastic to an advanced component that contributes to the energy transition. The technicians and scientists of our faculty think it out in detail and make it a reality. This special project shows that they need each other.
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Honours students on fieldwork: ‘The police don’t need to be doing dances on TikTok’
Interviewing pupils and brainstorming with judges and lawyers. Students from the Trust in the Rule of Law honours course discovered how pupils at the Edith Stein College school in The Hague see institutions and how the law works in practice.
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Aisha Hassan’s lifelong fascination for developing countries
Aisha Hassan came to the Netherlands when she was two months old. Her mother had fled Somalia and made a new home here. Aisha doesn't remember much about that time, but her mother’s stories about Somalia ignited a lifelong interest in developing countries. ‘Her stories have always fascinated me.’
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Archaeologists in action: stories from the field
During the summer, staff and students of the Faculty of Archaeology travel to all parts of the world, initiating or joining fieldwork projects. Read some of our students' stories here!
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Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia
Erik de Maaker wrote a monograph on how Garo, an indigenous community of the extended eastern Himalayas, experience and negotiate such disparities. The book shows how relatedness is reinterpreted as religious practices change, and communally held land ends up being privately controlled. Erik de Maaker…
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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Roeland van der RijstICLON
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Toon KerkhoffFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Hanno PijlFaculty of Medicine
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Jacqueline VelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Han de WindeFaculty of Science
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Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist
Film screening
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Guest lecture: Matsumoto Toshio’s Theory of the Antifascist Avant-Doc
Lecture