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Contributing to cancer research in your own way: three PhD candidates on their work within Oncode Accelerator21 November 2024
Accelerating the development of new cancer medicines by joining forces—that’s the mission of Oncode Accelerator, a Dutch consortium that recently welc...
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More legal firearms do not lead to more murders in Europe21 November 2024
A higher level of legal firearm availability does not lead to more violent deaths in Europe but does lead to more female deaths. This is what Katharin...
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Court deems unacceptable behaviour by professor likely, ruling on dismissal request postponed21 November 2024
It is sufficiently plausible that the professor from the Faculty of Archaeology exhibited the ‘inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour’ detailed in t...
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‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’21 November 2024
If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only whe...
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Innovating terrorism with AI20 November 2024
On 7 and 8 November 2024, the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), the Institute of Security & Global Affairs at Leiden University, and ...
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High priority of banks and tax authorities in bankruptcies proves outdated20 November 2024
It’s a given that in bankruptcy cases in the Netherlands, banks and the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration are prioritised as creditors. But not onl...
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Learning from the Experts: Dutch Negotiators on Climate diplomacy20 November 2024
How does climate diplomacy shape global security and policy? As part of the Vital Interests course in the BSc Security Studies programme, students had...
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Antibodies against rheumatic diseases tested directly on patients20 November 2024
Leiden Professor of Translational Rheumatology Hans Ulrich Scherer has one foot in the clinic, where he helps patients, and the other in the lab, wher...
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Gianclaudio Malgieri moderates panel at IAPP Data Protection Congress 202419 November 2024
On 20 November 2024, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology at Leiden University's eLaw department and Co-Director of the Bru...
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H2OLAW conference: Law-science interfaces within the law of the sea and fresh water law19 November 2024
On 26 and 27 September 2024, Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies hosted the H2OLAW conference entitled 'Law-science int...
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College of Europe postgraduate programmes presented by Pierre Bachelier19 November 2024
On 7 November, the Europe Hub welcomed Pierre Bachelier, Director of Student Affairs at the College of Europe, to Leiden University. Mr Bachelier pres...
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Europe Hub hosts first edition of Stockholm Explorative Talks in the Netherlands19 November 2024
Security, power, transition, fracture... and fear. What do these concepts mean in the context of the ongoing situation in Europe?
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Invisible forces in academia in new photo exhibition19 November 2024
A lecturer winning a prize, an expert appearing in the media or a professor giving their inaugural speech: these are faces we often see. But we rarely...
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Cybercrime: who is the perpetrator?19 November 2024
There is no such thing as the quintessential cybercriminal. It can be a Russian gang or the boy next door. What we do know is that cybercrime is an en...
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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'19 November 2024
It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...