If you have business contacts, you may at some point be offered a gift: a physical object or a service or advantage. What gifts can you accept without allowing your integrity to be called into question?

Diversity

Leiden University’s Education Dashboard contains key data for all the university’s degree programmes. Please note that at present the dashboard is only available in Dutch. For more information see the Dutch staff website or send an email to cijfers@bb.leidenuninv.nl.

As an employee of Leiden University, you are eligible to take out various insurance (schemes) at an attractive discount. On this page, you will also find more information about pension and unemployment.

Whether you’re a student, staff member or external service provider, it’s important that you feel safe at Leiden University. A range of measures are in place to assure safety and security in all the university’s buildings and grounds.

Students can sometimes use a bit of extra help with their studies and personal development. Here you can read about how you as a lecturer, study adviser, mentor or other student-facing staff member can support students’ well-being.

SOLO helps lecturers to use ICT in education. We offer practical support and advice.

Information briefing

Information briefing

Bachelor, Master, Short Course, PhD

Gain new ideas for your teaching and get inspired by fellow teachers during lunch bytes, workshops, and courses. Explore the offerings below.

Do you need support in arranging HR matters? Do you want to submit a complaint? Here you will find more information and contact details.

Organisation, Security

On 20 November 2024, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology at Leiden University's eLaw department and Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, will moderate a flagship panel at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels. The congress is recognised as Europe’s leadnig…

Communication

Zoom facilitates online teaching, one-to-one chat sessions that can expand into group discussions, training sessions and webinars for internal and external audiences.

The University Services Department (in Dutch: Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf, UFB) provides facility services for the entire university, such as ordering catering and the reservation of rooms.

Work pressure is still high across the entire organisation. Leiden University is not unique in this respect, as all Dutch universities are facing high levels of work pressure. In an effort to reduce work pressure, we have launched a toolkit including practical measures at central, faculty, and individual…

Each degree programme has its own programme committee. This is a legal requirement. Students and lecturers sit on the programme committee. Together they monitor the quality of the teaching, flag up any problems and advise on the development and implementation of the teaching policy.

Honours education caters to the most talented and motivated students at Leiden University. Students receive honours education in addition to their regular bachelor’s or master’s programmes. Furthermore, honours education is available to pupils in the final two years of secondary school.

The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) is a select group of young academics at Leiden University. YAL serves as a platform to bring young, enthusiastic and driven early career (post-PhD) academics together.

Participation organs serve as bodies for consultation, information, communication and advice. They promote the welfare and interests of students and staff.

Bachelor, Master, PhD

Welcome to Leiden University. Perhaps you already know that the university has 7 faculties and that you can end up in the city of Leiden or The Hague? And do you know that our university is the oldest of the Netherlands and what the motto Praesidium Libertatis means?

We are a multidisciplinary network that advises and guides FSW researchers at every stage of their research journey.

Our ambition as a university is to be one of the best. To realise this, we need to hire people with expert knowledge and skills, and give them room to excel. They range from talented new researchers to renowned professors and from study coordinators to IT managers.

Studentenstatuut

SOLO supports researchers and lecturers. Our services cover three areas.

Each programme has a Board of Examiners. This is a legal requirement. The board determines whether students meets the conditions of the Course and Examination Regulations (OER) and whether they possess the knowledge, understanding and skills required to pass the final examination for that programme.

Conference

Digital tools and campus facilities for active learning and digital assessment.

Seminar

Seminar

Seminar

Festival, Graduation Ceremony

PhD candidates spend most of their time on conducting research. However, teaching is another skill you need to acquire as an academic.

Every year Leiden University organises a number of events where our researchers share their knowledge with an audience of all ages. We are also involved as a partner in a number of local and national events. Fancy joining in? See who to contact below.

If you receive a salary from Leiden University, you automatically accrue pension with the Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (ABP). You can supplement your pension with ABP. In addition to a retirement pension, ABP also offers surviving dependents insurance and a work disability pension.

Keep in mind a fellow researcher: someone who knows your area of expertise, but not necessarily as well as you do. Are your files understandable as they are, or do they need cleaning enhancement? Keep the right balance: make sure the metadata is sufficient for reuse, but do not get carried away and…

All the sources (both textual and visual) you use for your educational video or online course need to meet the requirements of Dutch copyright law. Below, you’ll find some guidelines for how to include references and attributions for visual resources in your video work, and where to find usable imagery…

In accordance with Article 1.21 of the WHW, Leiden University is obliged to draw up a reporting protocol that students and staff can follow if they perceive signs that students, children, or staff are experiencing domestic violence or child abuse.

Starting a partnership and signing an exchange agreement is just the first step in facilitating student and staff mobility. Staff and student exchange at Leiden University is administered by international coordinators at faculty and central level.

The University does its best to create a pleasant work environment. It may nevertheless happen that you are unable to work due to a short-term or long-term illness or disability. The University doctors will help you reduce health risks and advise you through your recovery and return to work.