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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague04 November 2024Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague f...
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Student and entrepreneur: ‘PLNT The Hague is the place to find like-minded people’28 October 2024Taking a Bachelor’s in Security Studies while starting and running two businesses: student Mohamed Sulaiman never stops. But he wouldn’t have it any o...
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Busy yet not a student in sight: the Online Master’s Open Days22 October 2024‘Silence in the corridor please’ are not the words you expect to hear on an open day attended by 5,000 students. From 12 studios in Leiden and The Hag...
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Listening, asking questions and soaking up the atmosphere at the Bachelor’s Open Day15 October 2024So many interesting programmes, but which one suits me best? It was the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague on Saturday 12 October. Among the ...
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Two new bachelor's programmes in The Hague explore crucial societal themes08 October 2024Leiden University is expanding its educational offering in The Hague with two Dutch-taught bachelor's programmes: Economie & Samenleving and Cybersecu...
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Researchers and members of the public bring a sustainable world a little closer01 October 2024Researchers, civil servants and local residents met on 27 September to talk about partnering for sustainability. What were the results? In a green ‘ci...
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How do you keep citizens engaged in democracy? An interview with Carola Schoor19 September 2024If you want easy answers to governance questions, you might as well abolish democracy, believes Dr. Carola Schoor. A democracy should challenge and ra...
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What does it mean to be Ukrainian?16 September 2024It is almost two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, but the conflict between the two countries has been going on for much longer. Central ...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2024: the nominees13 September 2024Research skills are an essential component of the education programmes of the Institute of Political Science. After all, the challenges our (internati...
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‘As a government official, you are one of those buttons to turn’, according to researcher Mathilde Witkam12 September 2024We spoke with Mathilde Witkam about her research as a dual PhD candidate at the Dual PhD Centre. Her dissertation is about the effect of open governme...
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Symposium honouring departing LUMC Dean Pancras Hogendoorn05 September 2024Pancras Hogendoorn bade farewell as Dean of Medicine and Vice-Chairman of the LUMC Board of Directors with a symposium at the LUMC on healthcare, rese...
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’02 September 2024Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Var...
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Sun, sea, city and campus: 850 first-years get to know The Hague19 August 2024From chilling on the beach to a speech by the mayor. HOPweek is a speedy way for hundreds of ‘Leiden’ students who are going to be studying in The Hag...
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LUMC first medical programme to include AI in curriculum06 August 2024How do you make effective use of AI and medical technology? And what role do you play in this as a doctor? This is what the LUMC/Leiden University is ...
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Launch of The Hague Global Futures Hub: Innovation and Collaboration for a Sustainable Future13 June 2024The Hague Global Futures Hub was officially launched at the Wijnhaven building on Campus The Hague on 10 June. This collaboration between Leiden Unive...