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Redesigning the Future Through a Liberal Arts & Sciences Education 19 August 2020
In January 2020, Dr Min Jung Cho and Dr Annie Trevenen-Jones of LUC The Hague applied for the LUF - SVM (Stichting Verpakking en Milieu/ Foundation fo...
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability 13 August 2020
How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable societ...
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Student team invents Suckerspheres: sustainable alternative for microplastic 14 July 2020
A Leiden Groningen student team has reached the European finals of the BISC-E competition. In this annual competition students have to come up with a ...
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Impact of corona crisis on climate negotiations 01 May 2020
At the end of 2019, Leiden law student Aoife Fleming was elected UN Youth Representative for Sustainable Development. What impact is the corona crisis...
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GDP? Get rid of it! 10 December 2019
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals 22 November 2019
The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden...
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Discoverer of the Year Paul Behrens: ‘We’re running out of time’ 18 November 2019
Earlier this year, the public voted environmental scientist Paul Behrens Discoverer of the Year 2018. Behrens is an interdisciplinary scientist who wa...
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Leiden student Aoife Fleming elected as UN Youth Delegate 23 October 2019
On Monday evening 21 October 2019, 21 year old Aoife Fleming was elected as a United Nations Youth Delegate on Sustainable Development.
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Leiden will host international conference on industrial ecology 21 October 2019
In 2021, the eleventh Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology will take place in Leiden. The Institute of Environmental Science...
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Energy transition: let’s opt for a combined approach 23 August 2019
Despite the rapid progress in solar and wind energy, a completely clean energy supply remains a huge challenge. Heavy industry, aviation, shipping and...
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LUC- project UNPLASTIC wins Dopper Changemaker Challenge 24 June 2019
UNPLASTIC, a research project by Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) won the Dopper Changemaker Challenge 2019. LUC student Roos Kolkman represe...
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Master students Industrial Ecology selected for EU-project for sustainable start-ups 11 April 2019
Four students of the MSc Industrial Ecology have recently been selected to participate in the accelerator programme of the EIT Climate-KIC, which help...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of Ecology 04 April 2019
Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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Economic expansion and land use cause bird extinction 05 March 2019
Population growth, economic expansion and the associated land use caused an increase in the number of bird species facing extinction and a reduction i...
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New documentary “The Future is Handmade” reflects on value of craft 22 February 2019
The documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwine...