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Stronger together in high tech: 125 years of collaboration between Leiden University and the Leiden Instrument Makers School125 years LiS 04 May 2026For 125 years, Leiden University and the Leiden Instrument Makers School (LiS) have worked together on science and technology. This partnership is mor...
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First group of professionals complete Kingdom Affairs courseLifelong learning 29 April 2026Forty participants celebrated completing the Kingdom Affairs course with their instructors, family and friends on Friday 24 April. What is this new co...
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Two Education Directors appointed for the Faculty of Archaeology23 April 2026The Faculty of Archaeology is welcoming two new Education Directors this spring: Aris Politopoulos for the bachelor’s programme and Rachel Schats for ...
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Students meet potential employers at Career Events in Leiden and The Hague23 April 2026On Wednesday 15 April, two career events for students took place: the Humanities Career Event in Leiden and the Job Fair in The Hague. Together, these...
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Call for Abstracts: Workshop on ‘Digital and AI Governance at a Time of Geopolitical Upheaval’20 April 2026
Leiden University College and the Erasmus Center of Law and Digitalization, with the support of the Sectorplan SSH-Breed on Digitalization and the Net...
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Anna van Ark is doing an internship at the Rijksmuseum: ‘I’ve always wanted to be a curator’16 April 2026Master’s student Anna van Ark has landed her dream internship at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. For three months, she’ll be shadowing the curator and c...
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School of Democracy 2026The basics of Democracy, Storytelling and messaging 15 April 2026
The School of Democracy is an initiative of several Dutch political foundations aimed at engaging and empowering young people who are eager to strengt...
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Humans as a Legal Technology: Rethinking the human/machine distinction in public administration15 April 2026The lecture series Humanity in the Automated State continued on 9 April 2026 at Leiden Law School with Professor of Public Law, Ida Koivisto from the ...
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Pauline Happée winner of Moot Court Challenge Cup14 April 2026It was the seventeenth time the Moot Court Challenge Cup had been awarded! This time for the best pleader in the autumn term of the 2025–2026 academic...
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AI agents, missing persons and human smuggling: students advise professionals14 April 2026How can we become less dependent on the United States in multiple areas? These were the kinds of pressing security questions tackled by third-year Sec...
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Bats on a break: tracking the secret life of pond batsEcologie 14 April 2026What do bats do at night when they’re not hunting? Using tiny GPS trackers, Leiden researchers discovered that pond bats spend a substantial portion o...
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Teaching and learning toolkit on stars and their many meaningsUni-visions 13 April 2026Download free: an inspiring teaching and learning toolkit by Jos van den Broek exploring star shapes, their symbolic meanings and their role across cu...
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Secondary school students demonstrate knowledge of economics at national Economics Olympiad finalCompetition 13 April 2026Of the 3,750 participants from 100 schools, only 75 students made it to the final stages of the Economics Olympiad in The Hague. On 1 April, they gath...
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Science Skills team helps students develop essential skills for the job market: ‘This is what energises us’09 April 2026As a student, you’re expected to write papers and collaborate. But how do you do that if you’ve never been taught? Thanks to the Grassfields grant, th...
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Aftermovie: Students make legal support accessible during the Legal Tech ChallengeChallenge 09 April 2026On 2 April, the final of the Legal Tech Challenge 2026 took place in the Academy Building of Leiden University. During the final, teams of students pi...