528 search results for “environmental sustainability” in the Student website
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Building a sustainable future: 'Combine the forces of natural and social sciences'
The United Nations has declared May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity. A moment of global reflection on everything on Earth and its indispensability. Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg stresses the importance of the interaction between natural and social sciences in addressing sustainability…
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Are you a BSc/Msc student with a passion for sustainability? Join the SDG-Challenge!
Social
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Organising a sustainable academic event at Archaeology: ‘You will be surprised how many people actually enjoy it’
At Leiden University many staff members and students value making sustainable and responsible choices in their personal lives. Making these choices in our professional lives may feel a bit more complicated. But is that feeling justified? Archaeologists Gerrit Dusseldorp and Roos van Oosten share their…
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Call for contributions: FestiWell ‘22 – “Towards global sustainable well-being”
Organisation
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Hip and sustainable: restaurant De Schotel opens in the Lecture Hall Building
Looking for a great meal at a sustainable restaurant? Since Monday 2 September, you can visit restaurant De Schotel in the Lecture Hall Building. This renovated space offers a unique combination of comfortable study areas, a no-internet zone, and a wide selection of delicious food and drinks.
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Online Career Days FSW - Sustainability
Career Days FSW
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Encouraging secondary school students to think and talk about sustainability and policy
Anne Veens is on a mission. She wants secondary school students to get acquainted with anthropology, and think about the value it can have in the development and implementation of policy. To achieve this, she has developed a teaching package. Last July, she successfully ran the first pilot. 'Most pupils…
- LUGO Sustainability Symposium
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community
Buurtlab 070 is a new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together on climate, sustainability and biodiversity solutions. What do they expect of the lab?
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‘In the heel, not the head’: the sensory know-how of skateboarders
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Students work on bacterium that makes sustainable plastic
A group of biology students are working on a solution to the world’s plastics problem by getting bacteria to make biodegradable plastic.
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Government will continue to intervene to make aviation sector more sustainable
Is aviation on a one-way journey or a round trip? That is the question Steven Truxal will answer in his inaugural lecture From Disruption to Innovation in Air and Space: Legal Solutions for a Sustainable Future on Monday 15 November. This professor of air and space law is positive. That’s one thing…
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Hazem Eltohamy
Science
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Tessa Minter
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jelmer Schalk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Inge Schrijver
Science
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Horst Fischer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Xiaoyang Zhong
Science
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Min Cho
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Nils Thonemann
Science
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Jianhua Zhang
Science
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Levon Amatuni
Science
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Sabine Luning
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Allard de Graaf
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sander ten Caat
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jiahui Wang
Science
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Lavinia Reitz
Science
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Meng Li
Science
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Marco Cinelli
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Erik Bähre
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Looking back: New Year’s Event 2021, a year of sustainability and perspective
A live online New Year’s event on Tuesday 12 January marked the start of the New Year. Dean Joanne van der Leun toasted 2021 and as usual at this event, the annual Meijers prizes and thesis prizes were awarded.
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Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’
More papers, more grants, more students: constant growth is still the gold standard at universities. Neuroscientists Anne Urai and Claire Kelly argue that this mentality obstructs us in resolving such complex societal problems as the climate crisis. Their alternative? The university as a doughnut.
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Kathleen Gregory receives Veni grant for research on the sustainability of open data infrastructures
Data about COVID-19 were everywhere during the pandemic, but how will all this data continue to be managed and kept open so that it is usable in the future? We spoke with Kathleen Gregory, researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), who will study this question in a new project…
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Manja Koenders
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Peter Berrill
Science
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Ton Dietz
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Tycho Jongenelen
Science
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Oda Nuij
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marieke Kluin
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rita de Sousa e Silva
Science
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Isabel Hoving
Faculty of Humanities
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Yali Si
Science
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Dario Fazzi
Faculty of Humanities
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Kristie Tjokro
Science
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Willie Peijnenburg
Science
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Emilie Didaskalou
Science
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Gerard Persoon
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sustainability and transition: Alumna Charlotte van Gemeren’s mission at the Ministry of Defence
What does the Dutch Ministry of Defence do to fight climate change? And what is Alumna Charlotte van Gemeren’s Role in this? We spoke with Charlotte (class of 2016) and asked her about what’s it like to do a traineeship for the Dutch Government (and how to get in), the lessons learned at International…
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Making sustainable biotechnology a reality: joined forces aim to improve biocatalysts
Everything biobased: Plastic, medicine and fuel. It seems like a futuristic utopia. But for how long? A collaboration of researchers now proposes an idea to accelerate the development process. By combining machine learning and laboratory automation, this biobased ideal may become a reality rather sooner…
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Transitioning to a Sustainable Society
Conference