571 search results for “leiden empowerment food” in the Student website
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Other facilities
Find out about the practical facilities available in and around the university to support you in your daily student life.
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18 billion animals a year: they die, but never end up on our plate
Each year a staggering 18 billion chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, goats, and cows either die or are killed without making it onto someone's plate. Environmental scientists Juliane Klaura, Laura Scherer, and Gerard Breeman were the first to calculate this number on a global scale. 'Reducing these numbers…
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Akinyinka Akinyoade
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Vending machines
Almost all university buildings have vending machines from which you can buy drinks, snacks and non-food products
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Kaya Peerdeman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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GTGC Lunch Seminar: Transformation and connections through food/waste in Dutch cities
Lecture
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Medieval MasterChefs: From Byzantine Christmas Banquets to the Leiden Food Labs
Lecture, End of Year Event
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Register now for The Geneva Challenge 2024
Education
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Towards a Muslim Futurist Movement: On the Power of Imagining, Space Building, and Community
Lecture, LUCIS Meets | Masterclass
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Zsuzsika Sjoerds
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2022: Robert Okello
The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2022 is Robert Okello for his thesis on rural women’s legal empowerment through digital technology in Northern Uganda. Robert did his Master in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Huygens
Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden
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Snellius
Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden
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Community Building
Creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive environment where all students feel welcome is one of Leiden University’s main priorities. Hence, The POPcorner is building a community around creative social binding activities.
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Lecture Hall
Einsteinweg 57, Leiden
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Read the three most downloaded papers by CADS researchers
Three of our researchers have been awarded a certificate for receiving enough downloads to be in the top 10% of papers in 2022
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University Library
Witte Singel 27, Leiden
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Nettle workshop: fiber, nutrition and stories
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Reminder: take part in the 2022 National Student Survey!
Education, Research, Social
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Take part in the National Student Survey 2023 and win great prizes!
Education, Research, Social
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Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden
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Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Steenschuur 25, Leiden
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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2, Leiden
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Programme
What can I do in the Humanities Lab Programme? Continue reading to find out the possibilities!
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Archaeology students make museum exhibition on Sugar: ‘Before this I had no idea how sugar was produced’
When following a course on archaeology of the Crusaders, five archaeology students were presented the unique opportunity to create a small exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities. The coronavirus situation made a complex task even more challenging. ‘We had to work through the lockdown with…
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Take part in the National Student Survey 2024 and win great prizes!
Education, Research, Social
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the role of women in the past has been nearly invisible. Four archaeologists reflect on this inequality of focus, from hunter-gatherers in the palaeolithic to…
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Please keep your desk crumb free!
Facility
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Include local communities in policymaking
Forest degradation has limited the Orang Rimba's access to forest resources. As a result, they've had to make significant cultural modifications and adaptations. Ekoningtyas Margu Wardani explains in her PhD dissertation these transformation processes among Contemporary Indonesian Hunter-Gatherers through…
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‘Climate damage and nature loss are unfairly distributed. And so are the solutions’
In the fight for a liveable planet, we desperately need a fairer distribution of wealth and equal rights for all, argues anthropology professor Marja Spierenburg. ‘That will also generate broad-based support for sustainable development.’
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Hard chews: why mastication played a crucial role in evolution
We do it every day but barely give it a thought: chewing our food. But the ‘simple’ process of masticating food may have played a crucial role in the evolution of our jaws, facial muscles and teeth.
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Collaboration across borders: virtual learning between Leiden University College and Myanmar
Jyothi Thrivikraman set up a Virtual International Collaboration project with a university in Myanmar.
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Call for Participation: Winter School Digital Visual Engagements in Anthropological Research
The ERC consolidator project "Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale" will organise a winter school on visual and collaborative methods in anthropological research at Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development…
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Foraging skills may have made the essential difference in the evolution of our huge brain
Hunter-gatherers acquire their food through complex gender-specific foraging techniques for a relatively stable and diverse supply of energy. New research indicates that this specialisation by boys and girls starts at a very young age. Most likely, this enabled the human species to evolve much larger…
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No hunger, and not too much global warming? Current UN plan misses opportunities
The United Nations fall short in their recently published guide to address hunger without surpassing the 1.5-degree climate threshold. This initial version is a significant step, according to a group of researchers including those of Leiden University. However, they miss an essential topic: reducing…
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Scoreboard of the faculty NSE-competition; LBC still in the lead!
Education, Organisation
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Scoreboard of the faculty NSE-competition; LBC and DLF in the lead!
Education, Organisation
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How the National Student Survey contributes to improving the faculty
Education, Organisation
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Scoreboard of the faculty NSE-competition; LBC in the lead!
Education, Organisation
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Jaap van den Herik receives royal distinction on his retirement
Jaap van den Herik was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau on 8 October on his retirement as professor of Law and Information Technology.
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Anna van Buerenplein
Anna van Buerenplein 301, The Hague
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Internship and research
Many study programmes offer the opportunity to do an internship or research project, either as a compulsory part of the curriculum or to earn elective credits.
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Schouwburgstraat
Schouwburgstraat 2, The Hague
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Rethinking Urban Renewal and Citizen Engagement: Insights from Turin
Maria Vasile's ethnographic fieldwork in Turin reveals that volunteering and citizen engagement may not empower residents or allow them to shape their cities. Her analysis of urban gardens, food markets, and food aid initiatives calls for a broader perspective on urban peripheral areas and a shift away…
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Efficient phosphorus use can prevent cropland expansion
More efficient use of phosphorus fertilisers would make it possible to meet food demand in 2050, without using more of the world’s land for agriculture. This is what environmental scientists José Mogollón and colleagues have discovered by working out various future scenarios for food production and…
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Kilotonnes of 'recycled' Dutch plastic waste end up in the sea
On paper it is recycled, but in reality enormous quantities of plastic waste from the Netherlands end up in Asian seas. Researchers from the Leiden Institute of Environmental Sciences charted the fate of plastic food packaging waste from the Netherlands. They published their results on July 8 in the…
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Leiden biology student finalist UN youth delegate
Roel Wouters (24), a biology student at Leiden University, is a finalist in the election for UN youth delegate for Biodiversity and Food. The digital polls open for a week on Friday 22 October. Under-30s can vote for Roel at www.stemroel.nl.
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Subsidie voor Shelley van der Veek om peuters gezonde eetgewoonten aan te leren
Het onderzoeksproject heeft als doel ouders te helpen hun kleuters gezonde eetgewoonten aan te leren door het bevorderen van sensitieve voeding tijdens de fase wanneer peuters kieskeurig met eten worden.
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands
How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society Center, a new partnership between the Municipality of Leiden, Leiden University and many other partners in the city.