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Admission and Application
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme International Studies at Leiden University? Find out how to apply by following the step-by step guide below.
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Admission and application
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme Linguistics at Leiden University? Find out how to apply by following the step-by step guide below.
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Admission and application
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme African Studies at Leiden University? Find out how to apply by following the step-by step guide below.
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Admission and application
Do you want to apply for the bachelor’s programme Dutch Studies at Leiden University? Find out how to apply by following the step-by step guide below.
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Leiden Law Practices for first year students
Leiden Law Practices (LLP)
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Workshop: Managing Difficult Moments
Course
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Sustainability - The sustainable university
In this dossier you can read about Leiden University’s commitment to sustainability.
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The plentiful river
Ichthyoarchaeological and biomolecular research to assess the trophic ecology of the Rhine-Meuse delta in the Holocene
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Support your faculty
Leiden Law School is committed to its international students and to advancing the learning of others. More and more alumni, friends and sponsors share this idea with us and are making generous gifts to support our ambitions.
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Nutrition
A healthy diet is always important, also when you’re working from home.
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Citizen science
Citizen science is an umbrella term. It describes a range of ways to involve citizens and societal actors such as NGOs in collaborative knowledge production: crowdsourcing research questions, collective data gathering and analysis (to name a few examples).
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Dynamic Testing and Cognitive Flexibility
What is the relationship between outcomes of dynamic testing and cognitive flexibility in young children?
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Education and Child Studies
We are very happy to welcome you to spend the spring semester or year studying with us at the Institute of Education and Child Studies. Here you will find practical information on studying Education and Child Studies in Leiden as an exchange student.
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Dynamic Testing and Excellence
If gifted children are experts in using strategies, why do they experience problems with learning? Why do they underachieve?
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Collaboration
Our AI researchers work closely with other institutions such as Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University.
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Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Bitterling Fish
We developed the bitterling as a unique, well-studied model organism in the area of the evolutionary ecology of brood parasitism. The bitterling-mussel relationship, interspecific mussel host preference, and mussel gill structure are studied in detail, to help understand the developmental adaptation…
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COMMUNICATE HEAL-TH. A Virtual Reality training tool for optimizing expectancy effects in patient-provider interaction.
We aim to create an innovative e-learning and virtual reality training that helps healthcare providers to optimize placebo effects and minimizes nocebo effects via their communication.
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Does feedback targeting text comprehension trigger the use of reading strategies or changes in readers' attitudes? A meta-analysis
Our previous meta-analysis (Swart et al., 2019) had shown that feedback targeting text comprehension given when students perform a reading task positively influences learning from text. So far, differences in the effects of feedback were explained by design features, such as the timing and richness…
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Going global to local: achieving agri-food sustainability from a spatially explicit input-output analysis perspective
The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.
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Learn to Dare!
The ‘Leer te Durven!’ program (Learn to Dare) is a preventive training program for children with mild anxiety symptoms (Simon & Bögels, 2014). The program has been developed for children between the ages of 8 and 12 who feel or behave anxiously, avoid situations, are afraid of doing things wrong, appear…
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Social Anxiety and School Refusal
When and how does social anxiety develop? How can it go astray in some adolescents? How can we help troubled young people to attend school regularly and return to a normal developmental pathway?
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Students
The Honours Academy organises extracurricular education for students at secondary school (vwo), bachelor's and master's level, in order to help them develop academically and societally. There are various ways students can get help during their honours education.
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Employability enhancement
The labour market has seen significant changes in recent decades, not least in terms of greater flexibility and digitisation. Leiden University is keen to prepare students for a working life in which flexibility, resilience and adaptability will be essential qualities. The university’s vision on teaching…
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Career prospects
What is your preferred career path? Would you like to teach? Do you enjoy doing research? Would you like to work in policy development, or are you interested in a job that involves writing and editing? You will find that your African Studies degree is a good preparation for the career of your choice…
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LUF International Study Fund (LISF)
Bachelor, Master
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Information activities
Get to know us through our online and in-person events for prospective students!
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After graduation
It might seem far away, but the end of your studies is often sooner than you think. Luckily, the International Relations and Organisations (IRO) specialisation provides the ideal basis for continued academic education and a professional career.
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Free large scale online education: MOOCs
Everyone wherever they are in the world can follow free online academic courses offered by Leiden University.
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Introduction week
If you are about to embark on a master’s at Leiden University in The Hague and both the city and the University are new to you, consider participating in The HOP. This introduction week has been specially designed to help new students get acquainted with the city and its student life.
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Alumni blog
Interested in studying Ancient History at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.
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Working in the Netherlands
Many students want to find themselves a job during their studies, to help cover their expenses for example, or they might want to stay and work in the Netherlands after graduating. While there are certainly possibilities in both these areas, you’ll need to bear in mind that there are also restrictio…
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Archaeology
We are very happy to welcome you to spend a semester or year studying with us at the Faculty of Archaeology. Here you will find practical information on studying Archaeology in Leiden as an exchange student.
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Erasmus+ at Leiden University
Internationalisation is an important part of the mission and vision of Leiden University. The Erasmus+ programme, an initiative of the European Commission, makes a substantial contribution to this goal. Erasmus+ provides grants for educational projects with partners within and outside Europe, and facilitates…
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Deciphering myeloid (progenitor) cell function and communication in (tumor) tissues
PhD defence
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
- Career prospects
- Career prospects
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About the programme
This three-year programme offers you a unique chance to gain a specialised qualification in a rich, valuable area of knowledge, plus the freedom to tailor the programme to your own ambitions. And what better place to study than in Leiden, international centre of Dutch studies?
- Career prospects
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Study and the labour market
If you are going to study, it is not only important that you like the study programme. It’s also good to already have an idea of which professions you might enjoy.
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Tessa Verhoef: 'An algorithm still has a lot to learn from human interaction'
If an algorithm has to learn to understand language, simply having a lot of data doesn’t help much. Like us, a computer has to learn the language in interaction with others. Tessa Verhoef is fascinated by how this interaction works.
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What we can learn from hi-tech nature
Biodiversity in the Netherlands is having a tough time. Professor of Natural Capital Koos Biesmeijer combines research with practical advice: from the greening of industrial parks to solutions inspired by hi-tech nature. Inaugural lecture 9 March.
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What to focus on for a clean environment?
The earth has more than 7 billion inhabitants, all of whom leave behind traces of pollution. However, not all forms of pollution have the same harmful effect. Leiden scientists help determine where we should put our priorities.
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FAIR Surveys Project
This project aims to contribute to the improvement of documentation and archiving standards (conform the FAIR principles) for systematic Mediterranean archaeological field survey.
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Better reading comprehension
How can we help children and adults to acquire better reading comprehension? Paul van den Broek and his colleagues at the Brain and Education Lab are searching for an answer to this question by investigating reading and the related brain activity.
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Scleral pigmentation leads to conspicuous, not cryptic, eye morphology in chimpanzees
Researchers of the National University of Singapore and Leiden University have discovered that chimpanzees and bonobos share the contrasting colour pattern seen in human eyes, which makes it easy for them to detect the direction of someone’s gaze from a distance.
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Postdocs
Postdocs, or early career researchers, play a crucial role at Leiden University. They make a major contribution to our research. In 2019, Leiden University employed around 400 postdocs across our faculties in Leiden and The Hague, LUMC not included.
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Gas-surface reaction dynamics and surface science
The local ordering of atoms at the surface of a metallic particle determines its catalytic activity and selectivity. As energy systems of the future will be based on efficient catalytic conversion of small molecules in closed cycles, we study how structural effects of catalysts can be used to our ad…
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Student life
Your time at Leiden is about more than just studying. Some of your best experiences will stem from being a part of our lively and diverse student community, as well as from life in the beautiful city of Leiden.