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Leiden University supports Zuid-Holland Acceleration ProgrammeKnowledge transfer 16 December 2025Leiden University supports the new Zuid-Holland Acceleration Programme, which builds on the Growth Agenda for Zuid-Holland and focuses on accelerating...
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Leiden-Birmingham Strategic Collaboration Fund15 December 2025
The Leiden-Birmingham network initiative welcomes applications from colleagues from Leiden University and the University of Birmingham for a research ...
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Book Manuscript Conference welcomes eight international scholars to the Netherlands15 December 2025On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Prof.dr. Sarah Cramsey convened a book manuscript event at the beach of Wassenaar near Leiden to discuss her new boo...
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What a year: our most-read articles of 2025Year in review 15 December 2025The Russian threat to Europe, pro-Palestine protests, the passing of psychologist Andrea Evers and speculations on extraterrestrial life. These were a...
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Vasiliki Kosta speaks on Extremism & Taboos at Leiden Academic Freedom Sessions15 December 2025Vasiliki Kosta gave a presentation during the session ‘Building Academic Freedom’ taking place at Leiden University on 25 November 2025.
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Leiden University co-hosts Council of Europe expert exchange on accountability for crimes against children in Ukraine11 December 2025Bringing together practitioners, policy-makers, academics and children’s rights experts, the event explored how accountability for atrocity crimes com...
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Over €900,000 for new atherosclerosis treatmentGRANT FOR AMANDA FOKS 11 December 2025How can we slow the progression of atherosclerosis? Researcher Amanda Foks believes the answer may be switching off ageing immune cells. This could le...
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Extraterrestrial life, AI and more: these are the most-read Leiden Science articles of 2025A look back 11 December 2025Speculation about alien life, a new nitrogen map, AI as a thesis supervisor, groundbreaking telescopes and multi-million-euro investments to combat an...
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How science informs policy: ‘As a researcher, my work only becomes truly relevant once it is used in society’IMPACT 11 December 2025Green cities and a well-protected food system: Roy Remme and Oliver Taherzadeh study ways to achieve these. But how can their scientific findings lead...
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Discover teaching: ‘Take the leap!’11 December 2025Nicky Boer is enrolled in the Educational Master’s Programme in Social Studies/Social Sciences at ICLON, the Leiden University Graduate School of Teac...
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National Museum of Taiwan Literature donates to Leiden Chinese Queer Collection10 December 2025On the occasion of the Workshop organized last July to officially launch the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC), the National Museum of Taiwan Lit...
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eLaw co-authors award-winning article on Explainable AI 2.010 December 2025Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law & Technology at eLaw, is co-author of the article 'Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A M...
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Eleven Open Competition Domain Science ENW XS grants for Leiden researchersGrant 09 December 2025Eleven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an Open Competition Domain Science ENW XS grant by the Dutch Research Council for their re...
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Wil Roebroeks looks back on a life in archaeology: ‘I’ve always enjoyed my work’09 December 2025After nearly two years of retirement, Wil Roebroeks looks back on a career that began in a time of freedom and ended in a field that has undergone pro...
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Leiden historian and Arabist awarded ERC Consolidator GrantsEuropean Research Council 09 December 2025Historian Paul van Trigt and Arabist Peter Webb have been awarded Consolidator Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two ...