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Report on protection of whistleblowers sent to Dutch House of Representatives05 March 2025SEO and Leiden University have conducted an implementation assessment of the Whistleblowers Protection Act (Wbk). The Act aims to protect those who re...
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Always vegan, always fun: student-run Community Kitchen thanks to The Hague MarketCampus The Hague 05 March 2025Healthy communal meals that also prevent food waste. On 4 March, Hague alderman Robert Barker came to see what was cooking at the LUC Community Kitche...
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Launch of second student edition of Mediaforum, chaired by Emma de Vries05 March 2025On 14 February, the second student edition of Mediaforum, journal of media and communication law, was festively launched with a symposium in the Acade...
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Christa Tobler gives a public lecture at the University of Tasmania on the European human rights approach to climate change05 March 2025For several years, the University of Tasmania has been ranked first among universities worldwide in terms of climate action. The interest in this topi...
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Emma de Vries writes annotation for EHRC-updates05 March 2025
Emma de Vries, PhD candidate in the Department of European Law at Leiden University, has written an annotation for EHRC updates on the ECHR judgment i...
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Strange materials with potential for innovation in technology and energyPHYSICS 05 March 2025Following in the footsteps of Professor Jan Zaanen, visiting fellow Louk Rademaker is exploring quantum effects in so-called strange materials. His re...
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Postdoc Dita Auzina investigates relationship between appearance of monumentality and disruptive environmental events04 March 2025In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dita Auzina, originally from Latvia, works as a researcher in the project of ...
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Vincent Delhomme participates at the official launch of the EU Health Union Fellowship04 March 2025On 10 February 2025, Vincent Delhomme attended the official launch of the new EU Health Union Fellowship at the College of Europe (Bruges), where he d...
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Successful Leiden edition of Constitutional Law Conference04 March 2025Since 1973, scholars of constitutional law have gathered for the annual Constitutional Law Conference. This conference is organised alternately at a l...
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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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De Hoe?Zo! Show teaches children that science is anything but boringChildren 04 March 2025Why is water wet? What is ADHD? In De Hoe?Zo! Show, curious 9-and-10-year-olds get answers to their questions. PhD candidates take to the stage to dem...
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‘Grassroots projects can help democracy’04 March 2025Democracy is under pressure all over the world. With the #DemocracyinAction project, university lecturers Sara Brandellero and Kamila Krakowska Rodrig...
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Martijn Kitzen has been appointed professor by special appointment of Military Science: 'It's time for Europe to make a stand'Interview 03 March 2025Martijn Kitzen, who has years of experience as former military with multiple deployments and as a professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA),...
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Sampling the course and the campus on the Bachelor’s Open DayWhat to study? 03 March 2025It’s Saturday and electric minibuses ride back and forth bringing prospective students to Leiden University’s various faculties. They want to see for ...
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Academy for the rule of law: ‘Indispensable in populist times’03 March 2025Around fifty civil servants and journalists have jointly delved into rule of law issues since the launch of the Academy for the Rule of Law, a Dutch c...