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How innovations by HAS students can improve the well-being of grandparents (and maybe all of us)
Mensen worden steeds ouder. Soms in goede gezondheid, soms zijn er uitdagingen die de kop op steken. Met onderzoek, innovatief onderwijs en co-creatie met oudere mensen werken studenten van de master Health, Ageing and Society aan oplossingen voor deze uitdagingen.
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Global Transformations and Governance Challenges
Welcome to Leiden University's Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) programme! GTGC explores how innovative policies and governance arrangements can address global challenges in democratic, effective, fair, peaceful and sustainable ways.
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Pre-commercial procurement : regulatory effectiveness?
The Zmapp medicine has been developed with funding from the US government within the framework of the Small Business Innovation Research programme. The European Commission tried to emulate the success of this programme within the EU. Has its effort been adequate and sufficient? Is procurement of research…
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Phaeton
The Phaeton project creates a ready to use modelling infrastructure that allows data analysis and modeling experts from around the world to jointly create the best performing models rapidly to provide quick, transparent and accurate support to decision makers during a pandemic.
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From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence
Explores the relationship between technics and humanity, tracing the emergence of a bio-technical conception of existence in contemporary continental philosophy. Suny Press
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Huub RottgeringFaculty of Science
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Gijs van der MarelFaculty of Science
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Paul NieuwbeertaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alessandro AleoFaculty of Archaeology
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Peter ten DijkeFaculty of Medicine
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Marc van HemertFaculty of Science
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Lisa DörnerFaculty of Science
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Hendrikus TankeFaculty of Medicine
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Peter de KnijffFaculty of Medicine
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Jitske van WelsenFaculty of Science
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Jan CrijnsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hilde WerminkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Piet Hein GraafFaculty of Science
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Silvere van der MaarelFaculty of Medicine
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Jan de KeijserFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Henk HoekstraFaculty of Science
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Marjolein CrooijmansFaculty of Science
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Steffie van GompelFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel HogerheijdeFaculty of Science
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Elena RossiFaculty of Science
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From bed to bench and back to the future
Retrospection over the last 40 years the most important changes in care and research, where transparency accountability and guidelines became leading. On Huntington’s disease and cerebrovascular disorders the most important changes are illustrated.
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'In an ideal world we would recycle everything'
Merijn Tinga hit the headlines in 2016 as the Plastic Soup Surfer. In force six winds, the Leiden biologist ventured across the English Channel on a hydrofoil kiteboard made from plastic bottles. Interview with this Leiden artist who is fighting the mountain of plastic waste and finding his feet as…
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Tracking the Tocharians from Europe to China: a linguistic reconstruction
This project intends to provide an integrated linguistic assessment of the hypothesised migration route of the Tocharians.
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Leiden University climbs international rankings on sustainability
Leiden University has climbed to 24th place in the UI Green Metric, an international sustainability ranking for universities. This puts Leiden University among the top 6% of high-scoring universities worldwide. 719 universities from 81 countries took place in the ranking.
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Alice Twemlow on trash, deep time and the Scottish Enlightenment geologist, James Hutton
Alice Twemlow has recently been interviewed for Design Exhibition Scotland.
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New memory developed for superconducting computer
If computers work on superconducting current, they won’t consume any energy. Leiden physicists have now gained control over a new type of superconducting memory elements. Publication in Nature Communications.
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Paolo Graziano on the research potential about ‘food citizens’.
A political science perspective on our project’s comparative ethnography. I truly enjoyed the one-day conference on February 4th where the research results have been shared with the members of the Advisory Board. The work conducted so far is impressive, and the case studies are very useful in understanding…
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Leiden University supports climate letter
The 14 universities, brought together in the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), have expressed their support for the open letter on the climate that has already been signed by almost 1,300 staff members. The letter calls on the universities to pursue an ambitious climate agenda of…
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Auke-Florian Hiemstra named Person of the Year
Auke-Florian Hiemstra is the Leidsch Dagblad Person of the Year 2022.
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organised
‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young workers were not taken seriously, but they managed to put themselves on the map’, says historian Rosa Kösters.
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The Demographics of Protoplanetary Disks: from Lupus to Orion
The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.
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Transforming Research Excellence: New Ideas from the Global South
This recently released book takes a critical view of conceptual issues and practical problems that inevitably emerge when ‘excellence’ takes center stage in science systems in the Global South. What is ‘excellent science’? And how to recognize and assess it? After decades of inquiry and debate there…
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New Master Honours Classes on societal innovations
Social impact and circular economy. Two topics focusing on the future and bringing forward many concrete problems. Two Master Honours Classes, in which students tackle societal challenges, will start this fall.
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From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters
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From oscillations to language
On the 17th of January, Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Sarah on this achievement!
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From knowledge to business
The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) aims on doing applied research with partners. You can be involved in our research, and in the knowledge transfer of our research results.
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‘Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations lead to better scholarship and solutions’
How can you persuade researchers who are used to conducting research within clearly defined disciplines to adopt an interdisciplinary approach? Newly appointed distinguished professor Arnold Tukker explained.
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Artefact biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and beyond
Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn
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Listen to the new LUGO podcast episode: 'Challenges of Packaging in our Contemporary Society'
What is the history of plastic packaging in human society?
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From Clients to Citizens? Emerging Citizenship in Democratizing lndonesia
Democratic citizenship refers to the capacity and willingness of citizens to actively influence the functioning of state institutions. While considered a vital correlate of democratization and the rule of law, its largely western-oriented literature rarely studies the forms of democratic citizenship…