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Alumni meet in Brussels: ‘Contributing to the values of the future with Leiden building blocks’21 April 2026As many as 180 Leiden University alumni met in Brussels last week. A young, diverse and international group, they listened attentively to speeches by ...
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‘The Geopoliticisation of Europe’: Joris Larik delivers the Havel-Cleveringa Lecture03 February 2026Where European integration has long been understood as a peace project, Joris Larik argued in his Havel-Cleveringa Lecture that recent developments po...
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‘Extremely valuable’: Una Europa helps PhDs and supervisors to do interdisciplinary research16 December 2025Interdisciplinarity is more than a buzzword in academia. It’s essential for tackling today’s biggest challenges. But what does it look like in practic...
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’Backroom politics 01 July 2025The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture wer...
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Leiden University researchers tackle global challenges with Una Europa-Africa grants26 September 2024Three international research projects involving Leiden University researchers will receive funding from the Una Europa university alliance. The projec...
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A staff exchange with your European peers: ‘Everyone could benefit from this’03 April 2024Fancy seeing how your job is done at a university abroad? Project Managers Christina Schlüpen and Jeannette de Wolf from the Leiden Institute of Chemi...
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Executive Board column: Working on internationalisation with European universities13 June 2023Our university recently joined the European university alliance Una Europa. Staff from the 11 affiliated universities met in Leiden last week to discu...
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Shaping the university of the future. Leiden University joins Una Europa alliance24 April 2023Leiden University is a member of the Una Europa European alliance. This partnership of 11 research-intensive universities is working to shape the univ...
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Roeland Böcker: 'Problems of multilateralism are a never-ending debate'09 December 2022On 8 December, in honour of Human Rights Week, Roeland Böcker gave a public lecture about his experiences as ambassador to the Council of Europe. Betw...
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Strict but fair09 March 2020Guest lecture immigration law by Secretary of State Broekers-Knol On 5 March 2020.
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Ilektra Antonaki awarded doctorate cum laude04 September 2019On Tuesday 3 September 2019 Ilektra Antonaki was awarded a doctorate with the distinction cum laude for her dissertation on capital movements within t...
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Dovilė Rimkutė and Bart Schuurman awarded Veni grant16 July 2019The Dutch national research organisation NWO has awarded a Veni grant to 21 researchers from Leiden University, two of them are researchers from FGGA:...
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Austrian perspectives on Europe12 June 2018On 1st July Austria will assume the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. An appropriate occasion to invite former president of Au...
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Study on Children’s Rights and Biomedicine for Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics10 July 2017The study ‘From Law to Practice: Towards a Roadmap to Strengthen Children’s Rights in the Era of Biomedicine’ written by experts from Leiden Law Schoo...
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Presentation of Study on Children’s Rights and Biomedicine at the Council of Europe Bioethics Unit12 June 2017Last Thursday, June 8th, Ton Liefaard (UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights and Program Director of the Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in Internationa...