News
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’02 September 2024
Scrap 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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Sun, sea, city and campus: 850 first-years get to know The Hague19 August 2024
From chilling on the beach to a speech by the mayor. HOPweek is a speedy way for hundreds of ‘Leiden’ students who are going to be studying in The Hag...
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LUMC first medical programme to include AI in curriculum06 August 2024
How do you make effective use of AI and medical technology? And what role do you play in this as a doctor? This is what the LUMC/Leiden University is ...
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Launch of The Hague Global Futures Hub: Innovation and Collaboration for a Sustainable Future13 June 2024
The Hague Global Futures Hub was officially launched at the Wijnhaven building on Campus The Hague on 10 June. This collaboration between Leiden Unive...
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Collaboration across borders: virtual learning between Leiden University College and Myanmar27 May 2024
Being in class with students more than 8,000 kilometres away might sound impossible, but Jyothi Thrivikraman, Assistant Professor at Leiden University...
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Construction Day: Time to come and take a look in the University’s new Spui Building21 May 2024
You might be wondering what the reconstruction of the former V&D store at Spui in The Hague looks like now. If so, you can come and find out for yours...
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Walkout on 13 May13 May 2024
A national walkout will be staged on Monday 13 May. The aim is to express support for the pro-Palestine protests and to speak out against police viole...
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Leiden workshop on post-consumer textile 'waste’ in the Netherlands (and beyond)23 April 2024
On Thursday 30 May, Leiden University hosts a workshop to foster collaborations to improve the governance of European textile waste export. Different ...
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Erwin Muller appointed Vice-Rector of Organisational Development17 April 2024
Leiden 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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Leiden University joins Hague Climate Agreement11 April 2024
Leiden University has joined the Hague Climate Agreement. This comprises 38 climate deals aimed at making The Hague climate neutral by 2030. Over 100 ...
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The Dutch were masters of forgeries and fake news in the seventeenth century22 March 2024
A book with a fake printer, a pamphlet with a treaty that does not exist and an execution print with a supportive crowd: just some examples of forgeri...
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Leiden University and University of Edinburgh to deepen collaboration22 March 2024
Joint masters and PhD programmes. A research and teaching hub. A delegation from the University of Edinburgh recently visited Leiden University to dee...
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Kim Duistermaat new Campus The Hague Director as of 1 April: ‘I like to be in the driver’s seat’21 March 2024
Kim Duistermaat will become the Campus The Hague Director on 1 April. In this new role, she will monitor Campus The Hague projects and drive them forw...
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Quality of master’s programmes assessed in new guide21 March 2024
The Air and Space Law (Advanced LL.M.) master’s programme at Leiden University is among ten ‘excellent master’s programmes’ at Dutch universities. Thi...
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Huge interest from prospective students (and their parents) on Bachelor’s Open Day04 March 2024
Presentations, city tours, themed cafés and information fairs − there was plenty to discover on the Bachelor’s Open Day last Saturday. Around 6,000 pr...