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Closing the Gap 2023 is just around the corner: three questions about this conference13 November 2023On Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 December, the third edition of the Closing the Gap conference will be held in The Hague, hosted by EU Cyber Direct. Thre...
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’13 November 2023The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic a...
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Leiden University’s intake numbers are stable, also for international students10 November 2023The number of students enrolled at Leiden University remained stable this year. As at other Dutch universities, the growth in recent years seems to ha...
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Vocational education and university join forces for quantum technology09 November 2023Quantum technology is the future, but not without skilled people. For this reason, the Talent & Learning Centre (TLC) Delft/Leiden has been establishe...
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In ‘Learning Behind Bars’, Leiden students study with inmates09 November 2023Prison and student life are worlds apart. But in the Learning Behind Bars project, Leiden criminology students get the chance to study inside prison w...
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Arnold Tukker appointed as a guest professor in Indonesia, conducting research on the sustainable development of the economy09 November 2023A splendid milestone after seven years of collaborative research on the sustainable development of the Indonesian economy. Professor of Industrial Eco...
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City Photographer for a year: ‘Unfortunately, I found that I’m not really very visual’09 November 2023Julia van Alem had never held a camera before, but she and her classmates were appointed as the City Photographer. ‘This project helped me learn how t...
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iGEM team wins multiple awards at Grand Jamboree09 November 2023Leiden's iGEM team has won high honours at the Grand Jamboree in Paris. The biology students came second in the Overgraduate category with their proje...
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Ionica Smeets to give Iris Medal prize money to students09 November 2023Ionica Smeets is planning to give the prize money that she won with the Iris Medal, a prize for excellent science communication, to student projects. ...
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‘During my internship, I learned how theory is applied in practice’09 November 2023Elise Darras studies at Leiden University College (LUC) where she specialises in Earth, Energy and Sustainability. She decided to do a month-long inte...
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In pictures: Bachelor Open Day 4 November08 November 2023Prospective students and their parents or carers turned up en masse for the Open Day on 4 November. More than 10,000 visitors enjoyed a talkshow, vari...
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Guilt and sentencing in the Netherlands: the impact of mental health reports07 November 2023In one in four criminal cases in the Netherlands, the court receives a report on the state of the defendant’s mental health. How is that information u...
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Archaeological laboratories visit Faculty of Science for sustainable ideas07 November 2023In 2018 the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) was launched in the UK. The aim of this programme was to help laboratories work more sus...
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AI for humanities: ‘Especially as a humanities student, you have the tools to work with this’06 November 2023While humanities once mainly involved books and archives, nowadays we can’t imagine life without AI. Next semester a new faculty-wide course will be i...
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What is the future of translation software within the university?06 November 2023Is there a place for machine translation engines like Google Translate within the Faculty of Humanities? Associate professor Lettie Dorst’s new educat...