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Leiden University 14th in global sustainability ranking18 December 2023Leiden University has taken 14th place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Over 1,000 universities from all arou...
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Artwork in the new Gorlaeus Building: ‘Academics and artists have more in common than we think’14 December 2023Leiden artist Jos Agasi gets to create the artwork for the atrium of the new Gorlaeus Building. His work was chosen from several entries and will be a...
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UN Special Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’14 December 2023Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Radhika Gupta to study transnational Islamic charitable networks13 December 2023Radhika Gupta has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to study how transnational Islamic charitable networks are entangle...
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FGGA in 2023: This was the year of our faculty13 December 20232023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this...
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Top award for master’s programme Child Law12 December 2023The master’s programme 'Jeugdrecht' (Child Law) at Leiden Law School has been awarded the gold medal by EW Beste Studies. It is the only degree progra...
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‘My internship has taught me to look around me a bit more sometimes’12 December 2023Public Administration student Iris did an internship at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. During her internship, she dealt with elec...
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’12 December 2023What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the Europ...
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Algoprudence: presentation report Risk Profiling for Social Welfare Re-examination to Dutch Minister for Digitalisation11 December 2023Francien Dechesne, Associate Professor at eLaw, contributed as an expert to the advisory report of the organisation AlgorithmAudit, which was presente...
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: ‘Only creativity can save the world’11 December 2023Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edit...
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Percentage of female professors in Leiden unchanged07 December 2023Like last year, the percentage of female professors at Leiden University is 31.2 per cent. These are the results of the Women Professors Monitor 2023 ...
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New spinoff company to solve major roadblock in the quantum revolution06 December 2023Physicist Kaveh Lahabi’s research on quantum materials led to the launch of a new company: QuantaMap. With his colleagues, he developed a sensor that ...
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Climate Casino should excite secondary vocational education students about climate06 December 2023Introducing secondary vocational education students to topics such as climate and sustainability in a playful and stimulating way: that is the aim of ...
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Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) for John Boy to explore the shifting terrain of free and open source software05 December 2023With a grant from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund D//F, John Boy and members of the d12n research cluster will explore new ways critical tech...
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Green roofs and tile flipping: research in The Hague on the best approach to climate and species diversity05 December 2023Does a communal garden provide cool air and warm neighbourly relations? Does an additional row of trees increase biodiversity? These kinds of question...