Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
The new open access book The Science of Citizen Science bundles insights into science that is conducted together with citizens, to promote this growin...
A festival that combines music and science, and a digital 'time machine' for science history: four Leiden projects that focus on science communication...
The Dutch Black Holes Consortium receives 4.9 million euros from NWO for unravelling the mysteries of black holes and other mysteries of the universe....
The Astronomy & Society group of Leiden Observatory takes a new turn in science: they have decided to share their rejected research proposals with the...
In the Leiden Tutor programme, Leiden students support junior school pupils from lower socio-economic backgrounds. This is a difficult task so the dep...
The type of question that museums ask about objects in their collection influences conversations between parents and children. Researchers from Leiden...
Stuck at home with little to do? Don’t worry, because we have the perfect space related activities you can do from home, alone or with your family, in...
From bedtime stories about mathematics to podcasts about microplastics and games on weeds: master students from the Science Communication & Society tr...
Four Master's students Science Communication & Society made two podcasts on the theme Plastic for the end project of their study programme. With the p...
For the first time research has been done on species literacy in the Netherlands. Children in primary schools know about 1 in 3 native animal species....
On 5 September, spaceEU was launched at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, one of the world’s largest science, technology and media art festivals. ...
There is an enormous disparity between children from low and high socio-economic backgrounds. In the Leiden Tutor Programme Leiden students and scient...
Mapping out the problem of plastic pollution requires a lot of data over a large area. That's why scientists are increasingly turning to volunteers fo...
Bringing science, technology and innovation to places that normally do not have access to these areas of knowledge. This is the goal of the first Open...
