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Radio show opens vote for national flower of the Netherlands08 May 2023The Netherlands doesn’t have a national flower. The Vroege Vogels radio show wants to change this and is holding a vote. Experts from Leiden Universit...
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations01 May 2023Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Sw...
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Student lectures for senior citizens: ‘You can learn a lot from other generations’19 April 2023Connecting generations, reducing loneliness and slowing mental decline: these are goals of the Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan foundation’s lectures, which ar...
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Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 202312 April 2023The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered th...
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How migration policy in autocracies and democracies differs from what we expect11 April 2023What is the effect of a certain regime on a country’s migration policy? Political scientist Katharina Natter compared the migration policy of autocrat...
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Netherlands and Japan united by a tradition of mutual curiosity04 April 2023The Netherlands and Japan share a long and unique history with knowledge exchange playing a leading role. And knowledge exchange still proved to form ...
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?28 March 2023Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can co...
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Conference on the gap between government and citizens21 March 2023It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund28 February 2023More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other proj...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’27 February 2023The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes23 February 2023How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support22 February 2023A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Grants to build large-scale research facilities20 February 2023Five projects with researchers from Leiden University have received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to build or upgrade existing researc...
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Dr Carwyn Morris awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant03 February 2023Dr Carwyn Morris (LIAS) was awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant, as part of an international consortium with 19 colleagues.
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‘Radicalisation is the logical consequence of how we live together’31 January 2023With radicalisation, most people will think of individuals who carry out terrorist attacks as part of a certain ideology. Professor of Radicalisation ...