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Outreach programme spaceEU launched at one of the world’s largest science festivals 06 September 2019
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. ...
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Leiden students help children from The Hague: 'Now I can read and understand what I've read.' 30 July 2019
There is an enormous disparity between children from low and high socio-economic backgrounds. In the Leiden Tutor Programme Leiden students and scient...
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How do you make citizen science successful? 14 June 2019
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...
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Tackling local societal challenges through science 28 February 2019
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...
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FameLab: young scientists take the stage 26 February 2019
In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The...
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Fake or real? What children think of dinosaur fossils and replicas 16 July 2018
Children find that both dinosaur fossils and replicas belong in a museum, but they appreciate the real objects more. This is shown by research from Le...
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Throw a party for science communication 23 April 2018
Although both government and the public would like scientists to share their work with the widest possible audience, this does not always seem an easy...
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Leiden scientists and students in the media about Stephen Hawking 15 March 2018
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking passed away in his hometown of Cambridge on 14 March. Newspapers, radio and television stations interviewed Lei...
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Cutting edge science research to broaden youth participation in science & technology fields 15 February 2018
On 7 February, the first co-creation event of the Expanding (Event) Horizons project took place at Leiden University. Nearly 30 educators, scientists ...
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Exaggeration in medical news starts with the press release 02 January 2018
Medical research is often exaggerated in the news. Medical journalists are not the only ones guilty of such sloppiness; results are also often exagger...
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Dr. Julia Cramer wins the NWO Minerva Prize for 2017 15 September 2017
Julia Cramer is the winner of NWO's Minerva Prize for 2017. Cramer will receive the prize for her research in the field of quantum science and technol...
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Math trail Leiden 19 January 2017
The Math trail Leiden has been developed as part of a final project of the Master specialisation Science Communication and Society of Leiden Universit...
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Cartoons help children decide on participation in research 28 November 2016
Children are often able to decide for themselves whether they want to take part in medical research. In order to be able to make an informed decision,...
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‘Communication, too, has to be based in science' 09 May 2016
Science communication is a lot more than writing a column or giving a lecture now and then. The communication itself also has to be firmly based in so...
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Female IBL professors on display in the Academy building 10 March 2016
Only one out of six professors in the Netherlands is female. At the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) female professors are in minority as well. Howev...