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Veni grant for Leiden researchers 17 July 2024
The Veni grant is awarded annually by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). This year, multiple researchers from Leiden University a...
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University 17 July 2024
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Success with NWO for social and behavioural scientists 13 February 2023
Ten Leiden social and behavioural scientists have successfully applied for the NWO Open Competition. With this Open Competition, NWO gives researchers...
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A Community of Practice in responsible research across Europe 05 October 2021
Sarah de Rijcke has been awarded Wellcome funding to study and promote responsible research practices
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Network analysis library igraph receives two grants 02 September 2021
igraph, an important open source network analysis library, will receive two grants of $400,000 (approximately €340,000) over the course of the next tw...
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Ludo Waltman awarded the Derek de Solla Price Medal 30 March 2021
Ludo Waltman, professor of Quantitative Science Studies at Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), has been awarded the Derek de Solla Price...
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Atlas Award for a CWTS study on research priority setting 18 May 2020
Tommaso Ciarli and Ismael Rafols received the Atlas Award from Elsevier for their research on research priorities and societal demands.
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Faculty prizes & New Year's speech 14 January 2020
At the FSW New Year’s reception 2020, the Faculty honoured prize winners Claire Vergerio, Shirley van der Maarel and Camila Espinoza Chaparro raised ...
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Two Leiden professors ‘top of the class’ according to ScienceGuide 02 September 2019
Professors Remco Breuker and Barend van der Meulen are ‘top of the class’ for academic year 2018-2019 according to ScienceGuide. This science magazine...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young Leiden University researchers 26 July 2018
The European Research Council has awarded a Starting Grant to five early career scientists from Leiden University. They received funding up to 1.5 mil...
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden 09 November 2017
Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Research grant for Sarah de Rijcke 07 March 2017
Sarah de Rijcke (CWTS) receives a ZonMw Fostering Responsible Research Practices grant for the project 'Optimizing the responsible researcher: towards...
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Rubicon grant Stefan de Jong 17 January 2017
His two year Rubicon project is about the effect of university policies on societal engagement of academics in the social sciences and humanities.
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Four social and behavioural 2016 prize winners 12 January 2017
Following the New Year's speech of Dean Hanna Swaab a total of 4 prize winners were showered with praise and flowers during the new year's reception 1...
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2016 John Ziman Award for Leiden Manifesto 06 September 2016
The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) has awarded its 2016 John Ziman Award for ‘a significant innovative cooperati...