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‘Students have been treated like temporary residents for four centuries already’ 21 April 2022The new Students for Leiden party pulled off a stunning victory in the municipal elections. From nowhere, the party won two seats on Leiden Municipal ...
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’ 21 April 2022The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event 21 April 2022Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Health Day wins LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize 19 April 2022Health Day has won the LUF Relationship-Promoting Activities Prize (LUF RAP). This 5,000-euro prize is awarded to an initiative by Leiden University s...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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Anti-Asian racism deserves much more attention 14 April 2022Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are ...
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Leiden University signs Declaration on Student Well-Being 06 April 2022Leiden University and four other parties have signed a declaration in which they agree to improve the well-being of students in Leiden. They signed th...
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme 05 April 2022Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the...
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Classroom scanners in the Lipsius building tested by ethical hackers 29 March 2022To check whether the classroom scanners are secure, a ‘pen test’ was performed in the Lipsius building on Monday 28 March. This involved switching on ...
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Leiden University may open new building in the centre of The Hague 28 March 2022The Municipality of The Hague, Leiden University and CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM) will together try to realise a University building in the fo...
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Three new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minors 22 March 2022Leiden-Delft-Erasmus is introducing three new minors this year: Space Missions, (Re)imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, and Living Education L...
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Public pen test of classroom scanners in Lipsius 21 March 2022On Monday 28 March a ‘pen test’ will be carried out to check the security of the classroom scanners. These people counters in University buildings wer...
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Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl on Palestine event: ‘Let’s have an academic debate with room for different perspectives’ 21 March 2022There’s been a lot of commotion about the ‘Apartheid in Israel’ panel discussion being cancelled. The organisers, Students for Palestine, wanted to h...
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction' 17 March 2022Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together wit...
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LUC education team nominated for Dutch Higher Education Award 15 March 2022The Leiden University College team behind the Learning Mindset project has been nominated for the Dutch Higher Education Award, an award for innovativ...