Language: Dutch

Target group: children

Time: 13:30h - 14:00h & 15:00h - 15:30h
 

Last year the biggest space telescope ever was launched: The James Webb Space Telescope! Our rofessor Ewine van Dishoeck worked on a very important part of this telescope. Ewine is exactly going to tell you what the James Webb telescope is going to do in space.

Language: Dutch

Target group: children

Time:  12:00h – 12:30h

Light can be in all different types of shapes and sizes. Light can have all the colours of the rainbow, feel warm (infrared) or cause skin cancer (ultraviolet). By studying the light we can learn a lot about its source. Even if that source is lightyears away. Professor Antony Brown is going to tell you why light is so important for astronomy.

Language: Dutch

Target group: adults

Time:  11:30h – 12:30h
 

In the future, can we predict how new medicines will work in our bodies? Gerard van Westen tells you how smart computer programmes and algorithms can make new medicines more efficient.

Language: Dutch

Target group: adults

Time:  12:30h – 13:30h
 

Small, smaller, smallest, quantum! Scientists are convinced that quantum is the future. But exactly what that future will look like is not yet known. What will quantum mean for our daily lives? Carlo Beenakker takes you into the quantum world.

Language: Dutch

Target group: adults

Time:  13:30h – 14:30h
 

Are you interested in sustainability? Then this lecture by Professor Martina Vijver is perfect for you! She will talk about their sustainability research in the outdoor Living Lab: an ecological system of 36 linked ditches, in which the effect of synthesised materials on the environment is tested.

Language: Dutch

Target group: adults

Time:  14:30h – 15:30h
 

During this lecture Suzan Verberne takes you into the wonderful world of artificial intelligence. How does it exactly work and for which uses is artificial intelligence used? And: does it make our life easier?

Language: Dutch

Target group: children (8-12 years)

Time: 12:30h – 13:30h & 14:30h – 15:30h
 

These counterparts of each other can be found in everything: in medicines, in sweets but also in household products. Come and learn how it works and when to use an acid or a base.

Language: English

Target group: children 

Time: 11:30h – 12:30h & 13:30h – 14:30h
 

Make your own molecule out of paper! Take your creations home to show all your friends and family.

Language: Dutch

Target group: children, teenagers and adults

Time: 11:30h – 15:30h (continues, except between 13:00h – 13:30h)
 

Travel to Mars, looking at the Milky way or traveling back to the big bang. With the mobile planetarium it is all possible! Are you going to travel with us?

Language: Dutch

Target group: children and teenagers

Time: 12:30h – 13:30h and 14:30h – 15:30h
 

Did you know the Dutch Antoni van Leeuwenhoek created the first microscope? Follow his footsteps and build your own microscope!

Language: Dutch

Target group: children, teenagers and adults

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h (continues)
 

Liquid nitrogen, frozen fruit and floating... Come and discover superconductivity for yourself!

Language: Dutch 

Target group: children, teenagers and adults

Time: 12:30h – 13:30h and 14:30h – 15:30h
 

Liquid nitrogen is freezing cold. It is 196 degrees below zero! However, it is quite safe to work with. Rino will show you during Freezing Physics Show what kind of cool experiments you can do with nitrogen.

Language: Dutch 

Target group: children and teenagers 

Time: 12:30h – 13:30h and 14:30h – 15:30h
 

Do you want to get to know programming? Come to the ‘Learning to program’ workshop!

Language: Dutch 

Target group: children and teenagers 

Time: 11:30h – 12:30h and 13:30h – 14:30h
 

How can colours help research diseases or one single cell? In biology and medical research a fluorescence microscope is used. This lights up different colours at specific wave lengths. See it for yourself!

Language: English

Target group: teenagers & adults

Time: start at 12:00h, 13:00h and 14:00h

In this tour, you will see the coolest, biggest electron microscopes in the Netherlands! Do you want to know how we study tiny microbes (bacteria, viruses, etc) and how this helps develop drugs and vaccines or simply helps advance a better understanding of life? Come along to NeCEN, the Dutch Centre for Electron Nanoscopy. 

Language: Dutch

Target group: teenagers & adults

Time: 12.30h and 14.30h
 

Did you know the measuring hall is a very special place? It is one of the least vibrating places in the world! See with your own eyes what the researchers are exactly doing here.

Language: Dutch

Target group: teenagers & adults

Time: 11:00 - 16:00h
 

The Fine Mechanics and Electronics departments help scientists with their experiments. Are the materials that scientists need not available? Then we build them ourselves!

Always wanted to know what our neighbours from the Leiden Instrumentation School do exactly? You can! The LiS is also present at the Leiden Science Family Day. Learn more about the education they offer and which scientific disciplines are involved.

Language: Dutch

Target group: children

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

Use science to give life colour and give a flower your favourite colour! Will you come and try it out?

Language: Dutch

Target group: children

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

You can extract DNA from bacteria, or people, but just as easy from a kiwi or banana.

Language: Dutch

Target group: children and teenagers

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

Help in the discovery to new antibiotics and study different samples, see them grow and discover how they smell.

Language: Dutch

Target group: children, teenagers and adults

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

There are three doors: behind one door is a car, behind the other two doors is nothing at all. Can you guess behind which door the car is? Learn how you can get an advantage!

Language: Dutch and English

Target group: children, teenagers and adults

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

Did you know that not all bacteria are bad? You can even make art with them!

Language: Dutch 

Target group: children and teenagers

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

You can do some wonderful things with light. Discover it at the Lightlab!

Language: Dutch 

Target group: children and teenagers

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

By looking at the world with different glasses and perspectives you can learn new things. Every type of glasses comes with its own research questions. Can you look through different glasses? Throw the perspective-dice at the Sciencehub and see which questions you can think of.

Language: Dutch 

Target group: children and teenagers

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest space telescope ever! Build your own model and take it home with you.

Language: Dutch & English

Target group: children, teenagers and adults

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

Do you have a question that even Google can’t answer? Postbus71 is going to try finding a solution for you!

Language: Dutch 

Target group: children

Time: 11:00h – 16:00h
 

Chemistry is everywhere and certainly not only in a lab room. Do you want to discover what you can do with chemistry and how much fun it is? Take a look into the life of a chemist and make your own slime.