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International students meet the Faculty of Science30 August 2016At the OWL faculty day about 150 newcomers met their fellow students and had a chance to check out the study and research facilities at the Faculty of...
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Lions in West and Central Africa apparently unique10 August 2016Lions in West and Central Africa form a unique group, only distantly related to lions in East and Southern Africa. Biologists at Leiden University con...
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EU-FP7 project IDREEM featured on Euronews TV07 July 2016IDREEM (Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture) is a European research project launched in 2012 to protect the long-term su...
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New Horizon 2020 project on Concrete Sustainability06 July 2016A new Horizon 2020 project has been awarded to Mingming Hu and Jeroen Guinée of the Department of Industrial Ecology of Institute of Environmental Sci...
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Major European subsidy for research on circular economy23 May 2016An international consortium headed by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability has been awarded a subsidy for research on the circular econo...
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Vidi grant awarded to Nadia Soudzilovskaia (CML)17 May 2016On 11 May 2016 a prestigious NWO Vidi grant (NWO's Innovation Research Incentives scheme) has been awarded to Nadia Soudzilovskaia for her research pr...
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Eleven Vidi grants for Leiden13 May 2016
NWO has awarded eleven Leiden researchers a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. The research subjects range from Cicero and muscle dystrophy to the archaeolo...
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Managing water is managing the future15 April 2016“A partnership based on water” summarised Gerhard van den Top the relationship between the Netherlands and the Philippines in the 4th Louwes Lecture....
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Science faculties Universitas Indonesia and Universiteit Leiden expand cooperation14 April 2016The Science faculties of Universitas Indonesia (UI) and the Universiteit Leiden signed agreements on Tuesday April 12 that will strengthen cooperation...
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Bitcoins demand a huge amount of electricity31 March 2016Bitcoin is the most popular virtual currency to date but it is starting to have some serious physical effects on the environment. A study shows that i...
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Why fundamental science matters21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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Environmental benefits in transport sector often disappointing29 February 2016Eco-innovations like more economical cars do not generate the environmental benefits predicted by the manufacturers. This is the result of the so-call...
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Circular economy essential to keep the earth turning23 February 2016
A circular economy in which all resources are reused is a prerequisite for a sustainable world. As EU president, the Netherlands can give a firm impet...
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Dies lecture: ‘Connect agriculture with nature’08 February 2016‘Make more room for nature on farmland and you'll be surprised at the result.' This was the advice from Geert de Snoo in his Dies lecture.
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Dies Natalis: 'The big questions call for collaboration'08 February 2016Universities cannot survive in this highly competitive world without collaboration. And the ultimate aim is to make the world a safer and more sustain...