In persoonlijke verhalen reflecteren universitaire medewerkers en studenten met verschillende achtergronden op ons koloniale en slavernijverleden. Hoe werkt deze geschiedenis door in het heden en de toekomst?

Teaching reading comprehension in secondary education

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

De programmagroep Leer- en Gedragsproblemen in het Onderwijs doet onderzoek naar stagnaties die kunnen optreden in de cognitieve ontwikkeling.

Biopolymer sequencing with graphene edge-based tunnel junctions has the potential to overcome current limitations with the third generation of sequencing based on biological nanopores.

This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

Afgelopen jaar zijn ongeveer 2000 internationale studenten gestart met een master aan de Universiteit Leiden. Om dit mogelijk te maken bestaan er verschillende beurzen waar internationale studenten aanspraak op kunnen doen. Een van die opties is de LExS-beurs: het Leiden University Excellence Scholarship…

The LUGO Press is a student publication forum, rooted in academia and journalistic practices and published by the Leiden University Green Office.

On the occasion of the appearance of the monograph "Varieties of the Self.Peter Abelard and the Mental Architecture of the Paraclete" written by Babette Hellemans and published at Brill in 2023, a workshop will be organized concerning rules of observance as ‘texts of life’ in ascetic communities. The…

To conclude, this thesis provides valuable methodological insights to address data gaps and improve environmental impact assessments within the circular economy, with a particular focus on product reuse and sharing practices. Through empirical analysis and innovative approaches, it aims to support informed…

Discover the eLaw Summer School 2025: Regulating AI in the EU Digital Market. Read more about it!

Students with learning problems experience difficulties in reading, writing, and content-area learning into and throughout their secondary-school years

Unconstrained day-to-day activities are difficult to quantify and how the corresponding movements shape the brain remain unclear. Read more

Jelena Vićić en Richard Harknett bieden een analytische constructie om het functioneren van cyberbeïnvloedingsoperaties beter te begrijpen

In this article, Jasmijn Boeken, explores in which ways the defining characteristics of the different zones can be found in the digital sphere.

We have studied shape with a particular focus on the zebrafish model system. The shape is an essential appearance of the phenotype of a biological specimen and it can be used to read out a current state or response or to study gene expression.

The genetic information of all living organisms is contained in their DNA. Cells modify the degree of DNA compaction by epigenetics, which largely determines what genes are read out and which genes are transcriptionally silent.

Security is key to survival for any living organism: life is full of perils and threats, both physically, environmentally, and societally. Security challenges such as terrorism, natural disasters, and cybercrime rank among the most pressing issues of our time, affecting the security and safety of millions…

In 2013-2014, CML published over 100 papers, contributed to various international sustainability debates, renovated our building and educated thousands of students from all over the world through our MOOC. These accomplishments and many more are highlighted in this booklet, CML wish you a pleasant…

Het Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo (NVIC) is in 1971 opgericht. Negen universiteiten in Nederland en Vlaanderen participeren in het NVIC met als doel het stimuleren en internationaliseren van hun onderwijs- en onderzoeksactiviteiten in het Midden-Oosten. De beheervoerende instelling is de Universiteit…

In 2015, CML published over 70 papers, contributed to the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, won awards and advised the Dutch government on the safe use of pesticides. CML awarded 11 PhDs and taught students from all over the world how to contribute to sustainability. We wish you…

What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?

Pieter Boonstra (RUG) will defend his PhD thesis (Reading by example. The communication of religious knowledge in the collationes of the Brothers of the Common Life) on Thursday, 2 September 2021, at 14:30. Pieter was part of the NWO-funded research project 'Communication and Exploitation of Knowledge'…

IoT technology poses serval opportunities to supply chains. This thesis employs grey correlation and forecasting models, system dynamics, agent-based modeling, and ex-ante LCA to investigate and quantify the opportunities and risks of IoT-enabled sustainable supply chain operations from both industrial…

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

How can we develop and further improve life cycle impact assessment methods, characterisation factors and normalisation factors?

Het BioPartner Center Leiden heeft woensdag 2 september feestelijk het startsein gegeven voor de bouw van het nieuwe Accelerator bouwproject. Maria van der Hoeven, minister van economische zaken, verrichtte de openingshandeling door het heien van de eerste paal.