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New project seeks best collaboration methods for creating carbon-neutral neighbourhoods27 January 2025How do you get citizens more involved in energy transition projects? This is the central question of the new transdisciplinary research project EmPowe...
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‘If we want to be really inclusive, we need to step outside our comfort zone’D&I symposium 24 January 2025The experiential expertise of people with a disability needs to be integrated in diversity & inclusion policy. This message was the common thread at t...
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Interviews with over 100 civil servants under Trump reveal worrying pictureThe Loyalty Trap 23 January 2025It was challenging to get civil servants from the first Trump administration to speak about their work experiences, but sociologist Jaime Lee Kucinska...
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‘It’s a great motivator if your research can be life-changing in the real world’21 January 2025Our university labs are bursting with cutting-edge research, but how do you commercialise these inventions and discoveries or translate them into outc...
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Grants boost collaboration between university and The HagueCampus Den Haag 21 January 2025How can we make our cities greener and more people-friendly? Two Campus The Hague projects have secured a grant from the Municipality of The Hague. Th...
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A suitcase containing quantum inspiration on a trip across Europe: ‘We gained new insights’16 January 2025A suitcase as a messenger of quantum science. That is the idea behind QuanTour, a project connecting researchers from 12 European universities. In Dec...
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Military intelligence needs an overhaul because the threats are becoming more complexRussian threat and NATO 13 January 2025Many intelligence services have an outdated view of the world while the threats they should protect us from are becoming more complex. Serviceman and ...
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Uta Wehn new professor by special appointment for Citizen Science and SustainabilityAppointment 09 January 2025As of 1 December 2024, Uta Wehn is professor by special appointment of the chair 'Citizen Science and Sustainability' within the Focal Area Engagement...
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Leiden University 17th in global sustainability ranking08 January 2025Leiden University has taken 17th place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Over 1,400 universities from all arou...
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The Austria Centre Leiden Supports the Czechoslovak New Wave Film Festival in Rotterdam06 January 2025On December 4, 2024, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey gave a short lecture before a film at the Czechoslovak New Wave Film Festival in Rotterdam. The festival ...
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Study “Toward a Climate and Energy Union: The constitutional basis for a sustainable transformation” published24 December 2024A team of researchers at Leiden University’s Europa Institute authored an extensive study on the potential for a Climate and Energy Union within the E...
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IPBES: Positive outcomes for people and nature are feasible, but we must act now20 December 2024Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports re...
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Serious gaming helps students and locals in the Hague to discover hidden injustices in the energy transition19 December 2024On the 6th of December, Buurtlab 070 and the Leiden University Green Office (LUGO) hosted an event at the Spinozahof in the Stationsbuurt, bringing st...
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FGGA in 2024: This was the year of our faculty18 December 20242024 was a remarkable and eventful year for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. In this year overview, we look back month by month at the ke...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202417 December 2024Connecting scientific fields, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind in...