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The Europa Institute organises its fourth Meet the Author event
On Thursday 26 October, the Europa Institute held its fourth ‘Meet the Author’ event.
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Harold Linnartz opnieuw benoemd voor vier jaar
Prof Harold Linnartz has been reappointed Director of Education of the bachelor and master programmes of Astronomy. The appointment is for a period of four years, until 1 October 2026.
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The Europa Institute organises its fifth Meet the Author event
On Thursday 14 March, the Europa Institute held its fifth ‘Meet the Author’ event.
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Marieke Liem on juvenile delinquents
A juvenile suspect has been apprehended for the murder of 15-year old Megan from Breda last Monday. A highly unusual situation, according to Marieke Liem, Associate Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague. She gave an interview to Dutch newspaper AD.
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Universe Awareness on Euronews: Raising young peoples’ eyes to the stars
Space, stars, and galaxies. The wonders of the universe can be captivating and studying them is helping us unravel their mysteries. This edition of 'Learning World' looks at some projects that are offering classroom experiences that are truly out of this world.
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Wimar Bolhuis: ECB intervention helped prevent euro crisis
Dutch Central Bank President Klaas Knot wants to wind down the European Central Bank’s crisis bond-buying programme this year because the economic outlook is looking increasingly positive.
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Podcast #8 | Ye-Min Wu & Rebecca Webber Gaudiosi on Diplomacy and Multilateralism During & After COVID
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy is delighted to announce it will be starting its own podcast series! The series will be aimed at bringing the themes of the journal’s research off the page, and onto the discussion table. Each episode will feature a guest who will share their insights and personal experience…
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Final Report 'Assessing Legislation for Libya's Reconstruction'
The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development and Benghazi Centre for Law and Society Studies, Benghazi University have released their final report, in English and Arabic, on Assessing Legislation for Libya’s Reconstruction.
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Successful LLX-event on the second preliminary reference from Karlsruhe
On Friday, 24.11.2017, the Europa Institute organised together with EURO-CEFG a Leiden Law Exchange-event (LLX) on the second preliminary reference of the German Federal Constitutional Court to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
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Dimiter Toshkov about Moldovan asylum seekers on nos.nl
It has happened more and more frequently in recent weeks: large groups of Moldovans who come to the Netherlands hoping to get asylum here. This means that Moldovans are currently the largest group of asylum seekers in the Netherlands after Syrians. It is unclear what caused this sudden influx.
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Video: Is the hypersonic rocket system the new super weapon?
Missiles that travel at approximately six thousand kilometres per hour, up to 5 or 6 times the speed of sound. Has Russia used those against Ukraine and how is that possible? In Leiden University’s Dutch video series ‘De Werkplaats’, Danny Pronk, political scientist, security expert, and researcher…
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How do you keep ex-offenders on the straight and narrow?
Since reintegration officer Bart Reedijk started work in Dordrecht three years ago, ex-convicts in that municipality have reoffended a lot less often. There is much interest in Reedijk's method throughout the Netherlands, but experts have reservations.
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TRI Leiden Newsletter - May 2016
This newsletter provides an update on the various activities of the Turnaround, Rescue and Insolvency Leiden research team (staff members). It takes place, against many developments in Brussels. The European Commission is working on its legislative proposal on business insolvency, including early restructuring…
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Podcast #6 | Ambassador Ghanem (Yemen) on the Diversity of Diplomatic Representation
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy is delighted to announce it will be starting its own podcast series! The series will be aimed at bringing the themes of the journal’s research off the page, and onto the discussion table. Each episode will feature a guest who will share their insights and personal experience…
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Coffee Machines & Personal Mugs
Have you always wanted to use your own coffee mug at the university coffee machines but it was never accepted? We have good news for you!
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Alice Twemlow is the chair of the “Redesigning the Designer” congress at Het Nieuwe Instituut
In the light of today’s major changes and challenges, the congress on November 22 will focus on Redesigning the Designer while also taking some of the examples of more-than-human knowledge experimented with within Neuhaus as a starting point for a new network.
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Rick Lawson delivers Cleveringa lecture in Rome
On 26 November 1940, Professor Cleveringa – at the time the Dean of Leiden Law School – spoke out in protest against the decision of the Nazi Occupying Powers to dismiss Jewish academics. Every year Leiden University appoints a professor as rotating Cleveringa Chair, whose task, amongst others, is to…
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The city as a mine has the future
In an (Dutch) interview with the regional Leiden newspaper “Leidsch Dagblad”, Ruben Huele and Ester van der Voet talk about the recently started project PUMA (Prospecting the Urban Mines of Amsterdam).
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Exhibition on 50 years of archaeological fieldwork in Oss celebrates an archaeological 'Walhalla'
In 1974 Professor Modderman (founder of the Institute for Prehistory Leiden; predecessor of the present Faculty of Archaeology) executed a small excavation in the city of Oss. The Middle Iron Age cemetery, built over by Roman Period farmhouses, proved to be the start of a unique archaeological regional…
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Clinical psychologist Maartje Schoorl Professor by Special Appointment
As of 1 May 2020 Maartje Schoorl holds the special chair 'Psychological Professional Training in Mental Health Care with emphasis on evidence based interventions'. Her appointment has been made possible by the Organisation of Postdoctoral Education Mental Health Care Leiden/Rotterdam for a period of…
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'Law, Power and Inequality: Global Perspectives’: A Summer Honours Class like never before
In April, the Honours Class 'Law, Power and Inequality: Global Perspectives’ will start. Professor of Law & Society Maartje van der Woude has developed and coordinates this unique class which is innovative both in content and collaboration as in design.
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Louis Honée winner at European Universities Debating Championship
Louis Honée, a student assistant for the Thorbecke chair and the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, is one of the new European Universities Debating Champions. Together with his team partner, he beat around 150 teams in the English as a Second Language category.
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Nathan de Arriba-Sellier in Le Monde about the ECB’s new climate plan
On 19 July 2021, Nathan de Arriba-Sellier published an op-ed in Le Monde regarding the integration of climate change in the new monetary policy strategy of the European Central Bank (ECB).
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Translational data science: applications in health care
How can you tie together scientific research and practical applications? That is exactly what Professor of Translational Data Science Marco Spruit is concerned with, he tells FMT Gezondheid. 'It's about taking socially relevant questions as a starting point for your research.'
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New website Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory
A new website has been designed to make the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory, which started in 2018, more accessible.
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Back again: border controls in the Schengen area
Jorrit Rijpma responds in Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant to attention surrounding the reintroduction of border controls in the Schengen area.
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Two new Directors of Education at the Institute of Biology Leiden
From 1 October, two new Directors of Education will start at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). Dennis Claessen as the new director for the master's programme of Biology and Marcel Schaaf as director for the Biology bachelor's programme. Claessen and Schaaf have been appointed for a period of four…
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Hans-Martien ten Napel writes article for LSE Religion and Global Society Blog
On 15 July 2019 Hans-Martien ten Napel started a new series on freedom of religion or belief for the London School of Economics research-led interdisciplinary Religion and Global Society Blog.
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Manon Mulckhuyse new assistant professor Cognitive Psychology
In September 2019, Manon Mulckhuyse will start a position as assistant professor in the Cognitive Psychology Unit.
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Highlights 2017 FGGA in 12 photos
2017 was our year for new developments. Namely, the opening of our new Wijnhaven, our first debates in the StepTalks series and with a view to the future of our students, our first Career Event. This was our year in 12 photos.
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New SAILS lunch series in 2021
In 2021 we will start with a weekly lunch time seminar series, online on Mondays from 12 noon onwards.
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Five questions about the symposium: The role of Gender Stereotypes in Secundary Education
Laura Doornkamp, PhD candidate at FGGA, is organizing a symposium on the role of gender representation and gender stereotypes in Dutch secondary education. The symposium will take place on 23 November from 19.00 – 21.30 hours at Wijnhaven. Five questions about the symposium.
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Symposium with first cohort of Data Science PhD students
On Tuesday, January 30th, the first symposium of the Data Science Research Programme took place at the Sylvius Building.
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Ineke van der Ham at BBC on why adults confuse left from right
It can seem like an almost childish mistake, but a surprising number of adults confuse left from right. Neuroscientists are only just starting to know more about directional and navigation and understand why it is so difficult to distinguish left from right . Ineke van der Ham is an expert on navigation.…
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Ukraine candidate for EU membership? Armin Cuyvers on BNR
If it were up to Ursula von der Leyen, a positive opinion on Ukraine's application for membership would be forthcoming this Friday, 17 June.
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Podcast #1 | Christian Lequesne on the Contemporary Role of the MFA
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy is delighted to announce it will be starting its own podcast series! The series will be aimed at bringing the themes of the journal’s research off the page, and onto the discussion table. Each episode will feature a guest who will share their insights and personal experience…
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2020 Hall of fame
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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New Master: Master Cyber Security Engineering
In cooperation with Cyber Security Academie (CSA) and The Hague University of Applied Sciences the new Master Cyber Security Engineering is established and starts in September 2018.
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LUMC Campus The Hague launches new MOOC Population Health: Study Design
What is involved in setting up and carrying out clinical research? To give researchers a helping hand, LUMC Campus The Hague has brought together tips and tricks in the new massive open online course (MOOC) Population Health: Study Design.
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Book presentation Edwin Bakker and Peter Grol: 'Dutch Jihadists'
Peter Grol and Edwin Bakker, professor of Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the University, presented their book ‘Dutch Jihadists’ for a large audience. The book tells individual stories of jihadists in Holland and of Syria-goers and should contribute to a better insight into their backgrounds and m…
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Sander Hölsgens in NRC about the online game The Elder Scrolls Online
Sander Hölsgens is Assistant Professor, anthropologist and the editor of Gamer.nl. In NRC he talks about his favourite moments in the online game The Elder Scrolls Online. Despite a mediocre start in 2014, the computer game based on the Elder Scrolls series now has an active community of millions of…
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The Europa Institute organises its first ‘Meet the Author’ event
On Wednesday 2 November, the Europa Institute held its first ‘Meet the Author’ event. In the context of this new event series external academics come to Leiden to discuss a recent publication by their hand. The event typically starts with a conversation between a member of the Europa Institute and the…
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Newly discovered barrrows under investigation
Monday June 18th the department of European Prehistory of the Faculty of Archaeology started a five-year research (2018-2022) of two newly discovered barrow groups: Baarlo-De Bong and Venlo-Zaarderheiken (northern Limburg).
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Workshop: Interdisciplinary Research Design for Global Studies
What does it mean to do “global research”? Global studies is an emerging field that focuses on transboundary, international, and global processes and systems, such as climate change, global social media, and globalization. These issues call for researchers to think beyond conventional state actors or…
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'Investigation of state aid Nike highlights need for transparency in tax rulings'
The European Commission has started an investigation into possible illegal state aid from the Netherlands to Nike. It is high time that agreements between Tax Authorities and multinationals are made public, says Associate Professor in Tax Law Jan Vleggeert.
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Special film evening 100 years International Labour Organization
As part of the events to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization, the Department of Labour Law of Leiden University has organized a film evening together with Kijkhuis cinema in Leiden.
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Jurriaan Rot wins IPA Dissertation Award 2015
The Dutch research school IPA has awarded former LIACS PhD student Jurriaan Rot with the IPA Dissertation Award 2015. In his PhD thesis Rot studies coinduction, a relatively new mathematical technique that makes it possible to define and prove properties of circular and infinite data structures.
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Cor Veenman (NFI) researcher Forensic Big Data Science at LIACS
On December 4th an agreement was signed between the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). Cor Veenman (NFI) will perform research in the field of Forensic Big Data Science at LIACS.
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TRI Leiden Research Seminar 2015
The department of Business Studies would like to invite you for their third Turnaround, Rescue & Insolvency Research Seminar on Thursday 10 December 2015. During the afternoon research in the field of turnaround, rescue and insolvency will be discussed under the theme: Global Challenges to Cross-border…
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Trump's trade war introducing unilateral trade tariffs violates treaty
Terminating the Trade Treaty between the US, Mexico and Canada, as Trump intends, violates the treaty and also has implications for labour law, says emeritus professor of international labour law, Paul van der Heijden, in Dutch newspaper ‘Het Financieele Dagblad’.