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‘The depletion of the Earth’s resources is coming closer every year’A packaging-free shop, small mobile homes, solar panels on all Leiden's roofs… Jeroen Schrama, alumnus of Public Administration, is a creative world i...
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Leiden University Fund awards grantsOver thirty research projects have been awarded a grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF). The academics each receive a sum of between 5,000 and 2...
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'If you weigh up the state of migration today, the outcome isn't bad'Professor Leo Lucassen often adds his voice to the public debate on his specialist field. If there is talk of a 'flood of migration', he feels compell...
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'Relations with Morocco go much further back than the first migrant workers'The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. ...
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Non-standard career path: from studying Japanese to making offices greenerThe Linked In profile of alumnus Arne Driessen describes him as a ‘serial entrepreneur’. After studying Japanese he ended up working for a translation...
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Enya Seguin: ‘Healthcare in Africa could be so much better'Enya Seguin is an idealist. This 22-year-old alumna of Leiden University College in The Hague wants to make it possible for patients in Africa to have...
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Pieters Corner: The stressed societyStress, burnout, depression – these conditions pervade all levels of our society. Children and students suffer from constant pressure to achieve; at t...
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The story behind the war victimsHerta Mohr was a promising Egyptologist who died in Bergen-Belsen. Lawyer Amandus Wolfsbergen died in Auschwitz, without knowing that the his work wou...
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Campaign platform connects researchers with sponsorsWant to sponsor scientific research by raising funds? You can now do just that via Leiden University's campaign platform acties.steunleiden.nl. A broa...
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The dilemmas of thirty-somethings: What on earth are you supposed to do?Your own food truck, working from the comforts of a tropical beach in Bali, or a permanent job? Children, living together, getting married, a registe...
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Mentor Gonny Hauwert: ‘Your first job doesn’t have to be an instant hit!'Mathematician Gonny Hauwert (33) is one of the mentors in the Leiden University Mentor Network. Through multiple jobs she found out what she really en...
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Alumni Meetup in London
Sunday, March 25th, the LUC alumni network organised a meet up in London for the large group of alumni living, working and studying there. Special gue...
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Two Leiden Law School Alumni Awarded Second Prize of Wells-HeinOnline-Frontiers of Law in China Paper CompetitionDr. Jingshu Zhu, a former PhD student at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, and Ms. Qiaozi Guanglin, alumna from Leiden Law School’s ...
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Bachelor and Master Speckmann Awards 2018Dominique Brommers, Lilly Brouwer, Annemiek Buijze and Kyra van Meijgaarden were granted the Bachelor Speckmann Award for their report ‘Community of H...
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Rutte in Leiden: ‘Only studying is such a waste of opportunity’From political confessions to life lessons from his own student time. On 14 March, Prime Minister Mark Rutte gave candid answers to questions from Lei...