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David Ehrhardt awarded Comenius Teaching Fellow15 May 2020
Assistant professor at LUC The Hague, Dr. David Ehrhardt has recently been awarded a Comenius Teaching Fellowship. Winning the Fellowship means that h...
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Selma Ablak receives Royal Distinction during digital honours presentations24 April 2020
On 24 April, Selma Ablak was awarded the distinction of Member of the Order of Oranje-Nassau by the mayor of Amsterdam during the digital honours pres...
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Royal Distinction for archaeologist Maarten Jansen24 April 2020
On 24 April it was announced that, following his farewell, archaeologist Professor Maarten Jansen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion....
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Vlad Niculescu-Dincă appointed Knight of the Romanian Order "Merit for Education"20 February 2020
Dr. Vlad Niculescu-Dincă (Institute of Security and Global Affairs) has been appointed a Knight of the Order “Merit for Education” through a decree of...
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’06 February 2020
‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as ...
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2019 Hall of fame07 January 2020
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on comparative regional integration awarded to Leiden University11 September 2019
Leiden University is happy to announce that it has won a prestigious Jean Monnet grant for a Centre of Excellence. The Centre, called CompaRe, focusse...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant09 September 2019
Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Thijs Porck wins LUS Teaching Prize 201902 September 2019
Lecturer in Old and Middle English Thijs Porck was awarded the annual Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) Teaching Prize at the opening of the ac...
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‘It’s about life skills rather than knowledge’08 August 2019
He teaches, as he puts it, the ‘most brutal class’ at Leiden University College (LUC). Despite this, David Zetland’s students have nominated him for t...
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Bart Schuurman receives Veni Grant: Who do not become terrorists?18 July 2019
Bart Schuurman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague, has received a Veni grant which will allow him to co...
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VENI grant for Dovilė Rimkutė: Reputation is key for risk regulation16 July 2019
Dovilė Rimkutė, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration in The Hague, received the prestigious VENI grant for her research on ri...
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers16 July 2019
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...
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Three LUF Grants Awarded to Faculty Governance and Global Affairs12 July 2019
The ‘Leids Universiteits Fonds’ (LUF) award grants to research and educational project in various academic fields once a year. This year, Honorata Maz...
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Erwin Muller appointed as Chairman of the Evaluation Committee for the Security Regions Act08 July 2019
Erwin Muller, Dean of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and Professor of Safety, Security and Law, has been appointed as chairman of the Ev...