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Municipality and University join forces to help children with behavioural problems20 June 2019A Preventive Intervention Team that investigates children with behavioural problems and trains their social skills in order to prevent school dropout ...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future19 June 2019Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...
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Dutch National Research Agenda supports five ‘Leiden’ public-private projects12 June 2019The Dutch National Research Agenda announced today that it will provide 17 research projects with a total of 61 million euros in funding. Researchers ...
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Focus on extended essays: Leiden University’s Academic Challenge07 June 2019For most school students, writing their extended essay (or profielwerkstuk) is the first time they really come into contact with what it means to do r...
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Stop disregarding safety, says Pieter van Vollenhoven05 June 2019He’s sometimes called Your Safeness. Leiden law alumnus Pieter van Vollenhoven, husband of Princess Margriet and the driving force behind the Dutch Sa...
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How globalisation is changing the welfare state03 June 2019As a result of globalisation, migration and technological advances, politicians have to make complex choices about social security and labour market p...
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Student team hopes to heal skin with squid protein03 June 2019Eleven ambitious Leiden students hope to heal burns with a special substance from squid teeth. They are taking part in the international iGEM competit...
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Refugees build a new future in Leiden27 May 2019Solafa Saad (29) fled her homeland of Sudan for the Netherlands in 2016. She is now following the Leiden Preparatory Year (VGL), an initiative by Leid...
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Caribbean Ties international exhibition opens at Museon23 May 2019The international travelling exhibition Caribbean Ties will open at Museon in The Hague on Saturday 25 May. It tells the untold story of the indigenou...
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Magic moments at Museum Night20 May 2019Leiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisis20 May 2019It came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...
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Alumni stand for European Parliament17 May 2019Fourteen of the candidates for the European parliamentary elections on 23 May studied at Leiden University. We ask four of them about their motivation...
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New book on the Sand Motor offers research findings and reflection14 May 2019How can the Dutch Sand Motor strengthen our coasts in a natural way? And how can this knowledge and experience help prevent coastal erosion in Jamaica...
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‘Never just a murderer’14 May 2019In an interview with Leidraad Alumni Magazine (no. 2, 2019), Marieke Liem states that it is almost impossible to compare between murders. ‘In our soci...
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Little proof that doping really works14 May 2019The list of substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is huge. PhD candidate Jules Heuberger looked at many of these, as well as at...