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Master Honours Class 'Leiden Revisited': making an impact with art 13 July 2021
To achieve societal impact, you need to do more than solely writing academic articles. That's the idea behind the Master Honours Class 'Leiden Revisit...
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.' 13 July 2021
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this thi...
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Bringing a community together with soup 12 July 2021
As part of her Anthropology studies, Leiden student Marleen Kop has made a short documentary about the importance of Leiden-Noord’s ‘soup time’. Her c...
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Anyone can fall victim to cybercrime 12 July 2021
Criminology students Simone Kruijt and Noor Hekker conducted research into cybercrime in Leiden and presented their findings to the regional police an...
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’ 06 July 2021
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this seco...
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Leiden students brew coasters from beer waste 01 July 2021
Turning beer waste into a useful, sustainable product. That was the mission of students from Leiden at the international BISC-E event. The biology stu...
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Winners Meijers PhD positions 2021 30 June 2021
Each year, the Faculty awards two Meijers PhD positions to talented researchers. One position is open to participants from the Pre-PhD Programme (PPP)...
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Support the Rapidemic team and help them develop a mobile testing kit 28 June 2021
A team of students from Leiden won the iGEM international biology contest in 2020 with their Rapidemic mobile testing kit. The kit makes it easy to de...
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Pioneer Christiaan Weijts: clandestine novelist in literary circles 28 June 2021
In a new series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this first instalment: novelist and co...
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Master’s students create Graduate Journal: ‘It represents the development we’ve achieved’ 28 June 2021
A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal w...
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Another year of successful participation of Leiden Law School in the 2021 European Law Moot Court Competition 25 June 2021
This year’s regional finals of the European Law Moot Court (ELMC) competition took place online. The 32 teams that qualified from the written rounds c...
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Question fire for ambassadors Germany and France during debate 23 June 2021
Europe lives! This became clear last Friday when students debated with the French ambassador to the Netherlands, H.E. Luis Vassy, and his German colle...
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Simon makes the ISSA podcast: ‘It is fun meeting new people and to have good conversations’ 21 June 2021
Simon van Hoeve is a student of the master’s degree programme International Relations. Every week, he makes a podcast episode for his study associatio...
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Students from Colombia win Children’s Rights Moot Court 2021 17 June 2021
The team from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) came out on top at the international online Moot Court organised by Leiden University and la...
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Discover how research by anthropology students can contribute to solutions for current public problems 16 June 2021
Wondering what anthropology students can contribute in daily practice? Both during their bachelor's and master's studies, anthropology students conduc...