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New perspective, equal opportunities in the classroomInaugural lecture 03 November 2025Inequality could be addressed in the classroom without taking too much time, effort or money. By making one small change, teachers can make a big diff...
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Quantum theater show with Leiden script a big hit among 1600 Amsterdam childrenPHYSICS 03 November 2025Physicists from Leiden University wrote the script and ensured that every experiment in the performance was scientifically accurate. The kickoff of th...
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Invoeringstoets Wbk beschreven in Business & Law Research Network boekWet bescherming klokkenluiders 31 October 2025The sixth book in the Business & Law Research Network series, 'Veilig voor de melder' (Safe for the whistleblower), is about the Implementation Test o...
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PLSC Europe 2025 at Leiden Law School31 October 2025On 23 and 24 October, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies hosted the 2025 edition of Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe at Leiden Law S...
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Six Erasmus+ ICM grants awarded for international cooperation31 October 2025Six Leiden University members of staff recently received the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grant for exchange projects with non-European part...
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The AFITE Project successfully hosts the Una Europa Conference on Academic Freedom31 October 2025On 22–24 October 2025, Leiden University welcomed scholars, policymakers and higher education leaders for the Una Europa Conference on Academic Freedom.
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LACDR launches training programme for innovative drug developmentGrant 31 October 2025The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) has received a €750,000 grant from ZonMw for QPharmNL. This is a continuing education programme t...
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The role of feedback in Dutch oral language educationPhD defence 31 October 2025Anneke Wurth, PhD candidate at ICLON, wanted to gain insight into what works well in oral language education in the school subject of Dutch in the upp...
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Researchers unravel mystery behind rare pregnancy disorder31 October 2025Leiden researchers have found clues to why a rare pregnancy disorder is mild in some babies but life-threatening in others. Their discovery opens the ...
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Dutch election results expose new political divide – can D66 bridge the gap?Election results 30 October 2025What do the election results say about the Netherlands today? Students and experts discussed this at an Election Breakfast organised by study associat...
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Mini organs-on-chips: an alternative to drug testing on animalsOrgan-on-a-chip 30 October 2025Mini organs-on-chips allow us to study how diseases develop and how drugs work. Although the technology is not new, it is becoming increasingly advanc...
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Scoping Review: the Contributions of Open Science to Research CultureReport 30 October 2025In a new report commissioned by Science Europe, CWTS and the Know Center review academic and grey literature to examine how open science practices con...
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Leiden exchange for virtual exchanges: 'We want to deliver ecologically aware global citizens'Erasmus+ grant 30 October 2025Professor Dario Fazzi has been organising virtual exchanges for students with various American universities for a number of years. Now he has been awa...
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A faster way to find new medicines – without the limitations of big DNA barcodesDRUG DISCOVERY 30 October 2025Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass spectr...
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‘Teach young people to take control of technology’Inaugural lecture 30 October 2025Technology is spreading its tendrils into the classroom. But who is in control? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Nadira Saab calls for ‘digital age...