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The self-employed hard hit by coronavirus crisis06 January 2022Self-employed workers’ hours have significantly decreased during the coronavirus crisis. Their average hours worked decreased most at the start of the...
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Six prospective members of the new cabinet studied in Leiden04 January 2022The Rutte IV cabinet will be sworn in soon. A fifth of the prospective ministers and secretaries of state studied in Leiden. Who are they and what did...
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Leiden University student attends Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony22 December 2021Natalia Sobrino-Saeb has attended the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. She was awarded this honour after winning the essay competition of the...
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2021: This was the year of our faculty17 December 20212021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus e...
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Sanneke Kuipers appointed professor of Crisis Governance: 'Crises arise from very mundane causes'15 December 2021The Executive Board appointed Sanneke Kuipers as full professor effective January 1, 2022. Her chair is Crisis Governance. She combines this chair wit...
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One-off elective ‘Policy Evaluation in Practice’ great success at Masters CSM14 December 2021Last academic year, Johan van Wilsem, strategist researcher at the Netherlands Court of Audit, taught the one-off elective ‘Policy Evaluation in Pract...
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Organisations and young alumni provide valuable career tips during Meet the Employer Week13 December 2021Career Services of the Faculties Governance and Global Affairs, Social Sciences, and Humanities joined forces to organise the ‘Meet the Employer’ Week...
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Call for Applications: Teaching Excellence Training for Academic Staff02 December 2021What is 'teaching excellence' in Higher Education? Which different teaching excellence training, promotion and reward schemes exist across Europe? How...
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Students Ruşen and Rana fight for diversity in higher education29 November 2021Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...
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Olaf van Vliet appointed Professor of Economics25 November 2021The Executive Board has appointed Olaf van Vliet as Professor of Economics at Leiden University, specialising in social security and labour market pol...
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New Platform for Internships: TRAIL is live!23 November 2021Our students have much to offer both public and private organisations. Therefore, FGGA wants to match students and organisations more effectively by d...
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Looking for connection through the power of Storytelling09 November 2021Anyone can tell a story. That is the guiding principle Hans Dekker, Senior programme leader at the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL), and his col...
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Thesis project: ‘Something is actually being done with my research’08 November 2021The LDE universities work together with the Municipality of The Hague in The Hague Southwest Thesis Project. On 28 October students from the first gro...
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ISGA launches education partnership with Germany’s University of the Armed Forces, Hamburg22 October 2021In December 2020, the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and Helmut Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg signed a cooperatio...
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Integrated Project on physical violence and public order 202124 September 2021The student podcasts are back! Just like last year, first year students of Security Studies wrapped up their last block with the course Integrated Pro...