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Thousands of new students start an old-style EL CID 15 August 2022Smiling faces, a mass dance and a bit of awkwardness: after two ‘corona editions’ of EL CID, the Leiden introduction week is back with a vengeance thi...
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Honours Class reconciles students with the unpredictability of life 15 August 2022The course Designing Your Life helps students navigate their career pathways. As it turns out, these pathways are full of twists and turns and - as wi...
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences publishes advice on dignity and respect in academia 20 July 2022
If universities and research institutions want to tackle unacceptable behaviour in academia, they must shift their focus from dealing with complaints ...
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TED Talks for a better world 14 July 2022At the conference of the Honours College Science & Society, students present TED Talks on a social issue of their interest. ‘It brings together everyt...
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Reporting from ESOF: ‘How can we use science to solve the next crisis?’ 14 July 2022From global warming to the decolonisation of knowledge. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Leiden over 500 speakers from 60 countries have come t...
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Kilotonnes of 'recycled' Dutch plastic waste end up in the sea 13 July 2022On paper it is recycled, but in reality enormous quantities of plastic waste from the Netherlands end up in Asian seas. Researchers from the Leiden In...
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Over 3,000 euros for equal opportunities in academia thanks to NSE respondents 06 July 2022Within the scope of the National Student Survey (NSE) a cheque for €3.087,75 was presented to the Leiden University Fund (LUF) on Monday. The money is...
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'The effect of the online world on adolescents' 06 July 2022How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with incr...
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy? 06 July 2022The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Va...
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ESOF session on vaccines: ‘Infectious diseases know no borders’ 04 July 2022How can Europe lead the way in vaccine development that is fast and for all? To answer this pressing question, Professor of Vaccinology Meta Roestenbe...
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘ 30 June 2022Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leid...
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Former Rector Carel Stolker’s valedictory lecture buried according to tradition 30 June 2022After three years of covid postponements, the time had finally come on Wednesday 29 June 2022: Carel Stolker’s last speech as Rector Magnificus was bu...
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Broadening the scope of the Social Resilience & Security programme 28 June 2022The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The pr...
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Honours students on fieldwork: ‘The police don’t need to be doing dances on TikTok’ 27 June 2022Interviewing pupils and brainstorming with judges and lawyers. Students from the Trust in the Rule of Law honours course discovered how pupils at the ...
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Renewed Leiden Leadership Programme ‘provides tools to make a difference’ 27 June 2022The Leiden Leadership Programme is going to innovate. After 12 years, the honours track for master’s students will get a new set-up. We asked two of t...