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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’12 July 2021It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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Hossam Ahmed receives Comenius teaching grant for Digital Humanities track28 June 2021A better integration of Digital Humanities into study programmes, so that students develop their digital skills as well as possible. That is what Hoss...
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs25 June 2021Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Langu...
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Stéphanie Noach receives a Fulbright grant21 June 2021Stéphanie Noach, PhD within LUCAS, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for her PhD project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contempor...
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure21 June 2021In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the...
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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant21 June 2021Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 202116 June 2021The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...
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Frederique Visser wins Hugo Weiland Thesis Prize 202016 June 2021This year, the second Hugo Weiland Thesis Prize of the Foundation for Austrian Studies has been awarded. This prize, in honour of the founder and long...
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'14 June 2021The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and ...
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KNAW subsidy strengthens cooperation between Leiden religious scholars and secondary school teachers11 June 2021Markus Altena Davidsen was 'extremely happy' when he heard that he and his colleagues had been awarded a grant from the KNAW pilot fund for science co...
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize04 June 2021Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children,...
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(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics project awarded 1.7 million Euros by Austrian Science Fund03 June 2021New research project “(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics”, recently awarded 1.7 million Euros by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)’s Young Independent ...
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Grants for journalistic projects Leiden students and lecturers21 May 2021Three projects affiliated with the university will receive grants from the Leids Mediafonds (Leiden Media Fund ed.). The money is to be spend on creat...
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Sarah Cramsey awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership20 May 2021Dr. Sarah Cramsey, University Lecturer Judaism & Diaspora Studies, has been awarded an Early Career Partnership by the KNAW.
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NWO grant for four humanities projects18 May 2021The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has granted four grants to Leiden humanities scholars. They get to spend this money on research on a topic of their c...