Strolling through the historic city centre of The Hague, discovering the faculty and, of course, relaxing on the beach... HOP week gives hundreds of f...

Groupcard provided prepaid cards to Dutch municipalities for welfare recipients, informal carers and volunteers. Now it is bankrupt, the cards are wor...

Researchers from Leiden University analysed almost 30 years of communication on astrobiology. News articles proved most speculative, especially via qu...

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice says that states are obliged to protect the climate. Jolein Holtz, a climate and human rights...

She develops algorithms that outperform leading optimization techniques and can be applied in many fields. For this work, Niki van Stein and her team ...

The Dutch Advisory Committee on Public International Law has, on its own initiative, provided advice to the Dutch government regarding the duty of thi...

From medicines from snake venom to supercrops and the origin of words. Thirteen researchers from Leiden University will receive Open Competition XS gr...

On a sunny Lammermarkt, thousands of new students have gathered to kick off their student life in Leiden. The 56th edition of EL CID promises to be a ...

The NSE (National Student Survey) 2025 was conducted in the first quarter of 2025. Over a quarter of students at Leiden University completed the surve...

For over six centuries, the Tatars have been part of Poland’s social and cultural fabric. In this 8-episode series, released weekly, professor Maurits...

It is with deep sorrow that we share the news that our dear colleague Andrea Evers passed away on Monday, 4 August 2025. Since 2013, Andrea had been a...

What if particles don’t slow down in a crowd, but move faster? Physicists from Leiden worked together and discovered a new state of matter, where part...

What if AI doesn’t just support engineers, but actually works alongside them? A large consortium, including Leiden University, gets 3.7 million euros....

Give organisms like plants and animals the freedom to move, interact and meet their own needs, and they will thrive on their own, says Professor Geert...

How can we hack prejudice about age and ageing out of the recruitment process? That was the question data scientists, psychologists and HR professiona...