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Grant worth millions for research on the socio-economic impact of hydrogen transition17 July 2024A consortium including economists, psychologists and public administration scholars from Leiden University will study public acceptance of the hydroge...
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Poems and thoughts: creative honours course 'A Taste of Leadership' leaves you wanting more28 June 2024What do you derive your self-esteem from? Not a question you would quickly expect in a course on leadership. Lecturer Michel Don Michaloliákos opted f...
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‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’21 June 2024Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to ...
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'20 June 2024After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongren to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speec...
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Opinion: Renaming ministries plays crucial role in shaping political agenda14 June 2024Three new ministries have been formed in the Netherlands: Asylum and Migration, Housing and Spatial Planning & Climate and Green Growth. Of course, th...
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Public Administration students write consultancy report for municipality The Hague10 June 2024How do you transition from research to advising an organisation? A new twist on the first-year public administration course ‘Integrative project: the ...
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Public leadership in a wider perspective: ‘Leadership is for everyone’10 June 2024The field of leadership suffers from ‘adjectivism’, says Professor Ben Kuipers. He immediately caveats this by saying that he too is going furnish the...
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Alumni from Brussels: ‘Leiden University has a fantastic reputation here’05 June 2024They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days ...
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Experiment in Leiden SSH labs: a peek inside a civil servant's head04 June 2024You would normally not see public administration experts and water authority officials in a laboratory, let alone together. This is changing now, spec...
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‘Ties with Leiden University important for prospective prime minister Dick Schoof’30 May 2024Dick Schoof can also be called the neighbour of the faculty in The Hague. Especially from his role at the NCTV, he worked together a lot with Leiden U...
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Migrants cost European governments less than their native-born citizens do29 May 2024Migrants are far less of a burden on the budget of European countries than is often thought. In many cases, they make a more positive contribution tha...
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Attention to education and culture at lowest point in 20 years22 May 2024After an extensive content analysis of the coalition agreement, a sharp fall can be seen in the focus on education & culture, science & technology and...
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'We are already going to see this effect of the coalition agreement in the coming weeks'17 May 2024Few details, relatively few words. The coalition agreement presented is one of the shortest in the past 20 years, Arco Timmermans knows. Consequently,...
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Shadowing a municipality manager for a week: 'I saw him mostly putting out a lot of fires'08 May 2024After a week of shadowing for her master's degree Management of the Public Sector, it has become very clear to student Loes what a manager's day looks...
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'Elections are in the air here in Brussels, the energy is surreal'08 May 2024German-American Mia Müller (26) has been working at the European Parliament for three years now as Press Officer at The Greens/EFA Group. She was stil...