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Sustainability firms on partnership LLP: ‘An opportunity for reflection’ 20 June 2023
A partnership with the Leiden Leadership Programme: what does it bring you? Two partner organisations in the field of sustainability, Arcadis and Biot...
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Endowed Professor Tineke Abma: ‘Help older people feel like they belong’ 20 June 2023
Older people are often approached from the perspective of their limitations when there is often much they still can and want to do. People with dement...
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Being an anthropologist in a big company ‘it’s interesting to look at the internal culture of a business' 19 June 2023
Leonie Siepman is Global Culture & Change Manager at Mammoet. She followed the Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology bachelor programme and ...
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Nitrogen experts suggest switching from deposition to emission policy 16 June 2023
In an essay Professors Jan Willem Erisman (Leiden University), Chris Backes (Utrecht University) and Wim de Vries (Wageningen University) suggest amen...
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Ben Kuipers new Chair in Public Leadership 16 June 2023
Ben Kuipers has been appointed Professor of Public Leadership at FGGA. The Chair in Public Leadership (0.2 FTE for a period of four years) is funded e...
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Eleventh Europa Lecture: Tamara Ćapeta on the role of Advocates General 15 June 2023
On 8 June, the Europa Institute’s annual Europa Lecture took place at the Telders Auditorium of the Academy Building. Honorary speaker was Tamara Ćape...
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From bachelor student to entrepreneur: card game about elementary particles an unexpected hit 15 June 2023
A Christmas present that got out of hand: that's what prompted physics student Serafine Beugelink to start her own company. Her card game about elemen...
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Conference unravels the mystery of collecting, preserving and displaying 15 June 2023
Why and how do people collect things? Why does a museum display one object and not another? These questions are at the heart of the interdisciplinary ...
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Psychologists at Lowlands Science: can virtual reality trigger a psychedelic experience? 15 June 2023
Fantastic plants, dizzying patterns and pulsating sounds: researchers from Leiden are going to study the effects of a simulated psychedelic trip on th...
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How to keep your brain healthy? Scientists provide tips at brain festival 14 June 2023
At science festival 'Over de kop', surprising brain facts alternate with confronting stories from the operating room. Researchers explain why our bra...
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Leiden University to study historical links to slavery and colonialism 14 June 2023
The Executive Board is launching a one-year preliminary study conducted by a postdoc into Leiden University’s past ties with slavery and colonialism. ...
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Gateways for Humanity: The Duty to Reason in the Automated State 13 June 2023
On 6 June 2023, Melanie Fink gave a ‘conférence’ at the University of Liège, Belgium in the context of its EU Studies Seminar Cycle, organised by Ljup...
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Rein Dool painting to move to more public space in the Academy Building 13 June 2023
The Rein Dool painting depicting board members of Leiden University will be moving soon to the Reception Room in the Academy Building, where more peo...
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Historian Frank van Vree is the new Cleveringa Professor 13 June 2023
Frank van Vree, Emeritus Professor of War, Conflict and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden...
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1K Z1E J3 bench placed on Wijnhaven Rooftop Garden: ‘Don't be afraid to start a conversation’ 12 June 2023
'Een goed gesprek begint met iemand écht zien’ (A good conversation starts with truly seeing someone). That text is written on a plaque that was screw...