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Quality of master’s programme rated in Keuzegids 202527 March 2025Leiden University’s Master’s in Advanced Studies in International Dispute Settlement and Arbitration is one of the 15 ‘excellent master’s programmes’ ...
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What is happening on the shop floor? Executive Board visits the Institute of Tax Law and Economics13 March 2025Each scientific institute has its own dynamics. The Executive Board is visiting the different institutes to find out what is going on there. On 11 Mar...
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Joanne van der Leun to chair new knowledge security and fossil industry committees04 March 2025Leiden University has set up two committees to consider issues that are the focus of much attention within our community and society at large. They a...
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Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’Special birthday 07 February 2025An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freed...
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Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’27 November 2024The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture. She held up a mirror to those p...
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Symposium honouring departing LUMC Dean Pancras Hogendoorn05 September 2024Pancras Hogendoorn bade farewell as Dean of Medicine and Vice-Chairman of the LUMC Board of Directors with a symposium at the LUMC on healthcare, rese...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’02 September 2024Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Var...
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Tropical start to 55th edition of EL CID12 August 2024Armed with sunglasses, a thick layer of sunscreen and several bottles of water, over 3,300 students have arrived in Leiden for their introduction week...
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Hester Bijl reappointed as Rector Magnificus18 July 2024Leiden University’s Rector Magnificus, Professor Hester Bijl, has been reappointed for a second term by the Board of Governors.
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Ethics committee for partnerships launched02 July 2024
The ‘Committee for Assessing Ethical Aspects of Partnerships’ is being launched this month. This committee, created by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl a...
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King of Sweden visits Leiden University15 May 2024Collaborating in drug discovery and health research was the goal of a visit to the Leiden Bio Science Park on 14 May by a Swedish delegation including...
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Erwin Muller appointed Vice-Rector of Organisational Development17 April 2024Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed Erwin Muller as Vice Rector of Organisational Development. In this role, he will help further profes...
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Calling on universities and funders: make research information open16 April 2024Crucial information about research, funding or how university rankings are created is often not freely accessible. The Barcelona Declaration on Open R...
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Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk05 March 2024PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. T...
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress15 February 2024The varied mix of dress styles and many shades of black will no longer be seen at PhD ceremonies: permission was recently given for all members of the...