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Grammar school pupils visit Wijnhaven 13 May 2019Professor Bibi van den Berg welcomed a class of grammar school pupils to the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs on 10 May 2019. The children wer...
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Poverty in Leiden tackled in Honours Class on social innovation 30 April 2019How can business strategies help us solve social problems? This was researched by students of the Master Honours Class 'Social Innovation in Action' o...
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Experience one hundred years of astronomy at the Old Observatory 17 April 2019How big is the universe? How do stars form and evolve? And does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? These main questions in astronomy are the themes...
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Residents and researchers explore plastic and psychology in the city 16 April 2019This year will see the start of not one but two citizen science projects in Leiden and The Hague. This is the outcome of a large survey among residen...
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Learning with the City: students to tackle challenges facing Leiden 16 April 2019Why do we give students fictional assignments when there is a multitude of real-world problems just waiting to be solved? Leiden University, Leiden Un...
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University meets local entrepreneurs 12 April 2019It was a unique meeting at the Academy Building on 10 April. Around 200 local entrepreneurs came to a networking event hosted by Leiden City Centre Ma...
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'I get to continue my academic career': archaeologist who fled Damascus for Leiden 09 April 2019Ghazwan Yaghi was a leading archaeologist and researcher in Damascus but had to flee in 2014 because of the war. An NWO 'Refugees in Science' grant ha...
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Crowdfunding for Nieuwscheckers a huge success: ‘Fact checking matters more than ever’ 02 April 2019Nieuwscheckers, the fact-checking initiative at Leiden University, will check the claims made by politicians during the European elections. Lots of in...
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‘We have world-class expertise on the circular economy’ 01 April 2019The province of Zuid-Holland faces a wide range of global sustainability issues caused by urbanisation, intensive horticulture and industry. The unive...
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Over 50 citizen science ideas 01 April 2019From how litter spreads to which languages are spoken in Leiden and The Hague: over 50 interesting, surprising, complex and entertaining questions wer...
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Free symposium reveals surprising uses of AI 26 March 2019Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help humans in many different ways: from customised medicine and self-driving cars to preserving our cultural heritag...
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Leiden research addresses energy challenges 19 March 2019Climate change and energy transition were an important theme of the Dutch provincial elections: how should we invest in new sources of energy? Leiden ...
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Dancing for science: Annebelle Kok finalist of Dance Your PhD 26 February 2019Explaining your PhD research to others can be quite difficult, especially without talking! PhD student Annebelle Kok of the Institute of Biology Leide...
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Leiden scientists working on public course on artificial intelligence 05 February 2019Since January the Dutch public have been able to follow a free course on artificial intelligence (AI) and its far-reaching impact on our lives. Leiden...
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National Think Tank: a think tank and a do tank 08 January 2019From learning modules for primary schools to a ‘Fixer-Upper Day’ and from a platform for returning broken electronic devices to a call to government: ...