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New perspective, equal opportunities in the classroomInaugural lecture 03 November 2025Inequality could be addressed in the classroom without taking too much time, effort or money. By making one small change, teachers can make a big diff...
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Quantum theater show with Leiden script a big hit among 1600 Amsterdam childrenPHYSICS 03 November 2025Physicists from Leiden University wrote the script and ensured that every experiment in the performance was scientifically accurate. The kickoff of th...
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Why our welfare state doesn’t always reach vulnerable peopleHealth 03 November 2025In general, there are significant health disparities between people with low and high incomes, particularly in countries with an extensive welfare sta...
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Invoeringstoets Wbk beschreven in Business & Law Research Network boekWet bescherming klokkenluiders 31 October 2025The sixth book in the Business & Law Research Network series, 'Veilig voor de melder' (Safe for the whistleblower), is about the Implementation Test o...
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PLSC Europe 2025 at Leiden Law School31 October 2025On 23 and 24 October, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies hosted the 2025 edition of Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe at Leiden Law S...
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Six Erasmus+ ICM grants awarded for international cooperation31 October 2025Six Leiden University members of staff recently received the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grant for exchange projects with non-European part...
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The AFITE Project successfully hosts the Una Europa Conference on Academic Freedom31 October 2025On 22–24 October 2025, Leiden University welcomed scholars, policymakers and higher education leaders for the Una Europa Conference on Academic Freedom.
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The role of feedback in Dutch oral language educationPhD defence 31 October 2025Anneke Wurth, PhD candidate at ICLON, wanted to gain insight into what works well in oral language education in the school subject of Dutch in the upp...
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Researchers unravel mystery behind rare pregnancy disorder31 October 2025Leiden researchers have found clues to why a rare pregnancy disorder is mild in some babies but life-threatening in others. Their discovery opens the ...
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Mini organs-on-chips: an alternative to drug testing on animalsOrgan-on-a-chip 30 October 2025Mini organs-on-chips allow us to study how diseases develop and how drugs work. Although the technology is not new, it is becoming increasingly advanc...
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Scoping Review: the Contributions of Open Science to Research CultureReport 30 October 2025In a new report commissioned by Science Europe, CWTS and the Know Center review academic and grey literature to examine how open science practices con...
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A faster way to find new medicines – without the limitations of big DNA barcodesDRUG DISCOVERY 30 October 2025Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass spectr...
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‘Teach young people to take control of technology’Inaugural lecture 30 October 2025Technology is spreading its tendrils into the classroom. But who is in control? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Nadira Saab calls for ‘digital age...
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What does learning 'for' sustainability mean?29 October 2025As of October, Joeri Reinders has joined the Leiden Teachers’ Academy, a group of innovative lecturers who each receive a €25,000 grant for projects f...
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VIDI Grant for Eduard Fosch-Villaronga to work on Sex, Care & Robots28 October 2025Sexuality is a fundamental part of being human. Yet, for many people with disabilities, it remains overlooked, unsupported, and surrounded by stigma. ...