“Are you tired of listening to never-ending-success-stories and feel like you might be the only one with certain problems? We, humans, pay so much attention to the best of the best that we don’t know what to do when we’re part of “the rest”. While reading these sentences, did you recognize yourself and thought ‘This is so right! I have a story of a study-experience that not went to plan’. Now is your chance to help these others yourself.”

For PRINS 2019, the Rainforest Alliance (RA) presented the case ‘Eliminating deforestation from global commodity chains’. With this case, RA was seeking effective approaches and technologies that reduce both deforestation and economic exclusion of farmers in the supply chains of cocoa, coffee, tea and bananas. In addition, they sought ‘feasible, adequate and comprehensible certification criteria’ that could be directly integrated into RA’s new small-hold farmers’ programmes across the agricultural sectors listed above.

This question was asked by Simon Anholt in an interview with Times Higher Education in January 2021. Simon who? Maybe not a household name, but Anholt is something of a ‘celeb’ within the broad field that stretches from corporate PR and marketing to inter-state public diplomacy and nation branding. More a policy advisor than an academic, and always operating on that interesting borderline between profound foresight and superficial entertainment, he’s been something of an intellectual shape-shifter for more than two decades. So what does he mean here?

Read here the stories of our students who went to a country in the area of Europe for their internship.

Read here the stories of our students who went to a country in the area of Latin America for their internship.

As this world map reveals, our first-year students represent a whole bunch of different backgrounds and identities. Some of them currently living in The Hague, some of them elsewhere in the Netherlands or abroad. How can we try and make use of the situation and create a community…online?

Under this rubric we want to report on our tutors’ international and intercultural experience. Leiden University strives to enable students to develop so called “21st century skills” which are defined as “the ability to work in teams, international and intercultural skills, entrepreneurship and leadership qualities and digital competences”.

On 2 November, more than 800 hundred students visited Leiden's Humanities Faculty to explore their options during the Master's Open Day. So why should you consider a MA at Leiden?

The end of the semester and the dawning of a new year tend to inspire a certain level of contemplation. So far there has not been much time for that partly as a result of the unrest that has recently erupted around Zwarte Piet. In that context I would like to share some thoughts with you.

After the successful edition of the alumni event last semester, a new opportunity to learn about career prospects and get advice from different alumni who already successfully stepped into the labor market is here!