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Leiden University is realizing a new and sustainable building with state-of-the-art research and education facilities for the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Gorlaeus Building. The construction of the second phase, completed in January 2024, has resulted in a further expansion of the…

Leiden University is realising a new and sustainable building with state of the art research and educational facilities for the Faculty of Science: the Gorlaeus Building. The new sustainable building will stimulate academic cooperation and knowledge sharing.

During the development of the Humanities Campus, many aspects of sustainability are combined. For example:

What is Leiden University doing to make its buildings future-proof and independent of fossil energy?

A British English Pronunciation Course Book

This project focuses on urban commercial space in Roman Italy and deals with the impact of economic growth on urban communities in the late Republic and the Imperial period (200 BCE – 300 CE).

The renovation of the Herta Mohr building (formerly known as Cluster Zuid) is completed. It is the third project in the redevelopment of the Humanities Campus. With the renewal of these buildings, the university ensures a sustainable campus with modern facilities. The university wants to create an attractive…

Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ, Leiden

Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden

Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden

Leiden University is building a new Middle Eastern Library. This new library will lie at the heart of Cluster Zuid on the new Humanities Campus and will endeavour to provide a sense of community, a pleasant study and working environment and modern facilities for researchers and students in Middle Eastern…

, Wassenaarseweg 76, 2333 AL, Leiden

A research into for whom, when and why the Cool Little Kids intervention works.

The refurbished P.J. Veth Building - the first completed sub-project in the Humanities Campus project - was officially opened in the summer of 2017. The Faculty of Humanities moved in straight away. . The building was meticulously transformed into a modern teaching building with attractive areas for…

State Building Through Life Stories: Incorporating Local Perspectives

Leiden University is developping a major, new university premises at Spui, in the city centre of The Hague. The building, a former department store, will provide space for some 3,000 university students and staff. Construction starts early in 2023. The doors of the Spui Building are planned to open…

This PhD-thesis presents a study on micron-sized particles, so-called colloids. By controlling the chemical and physical properties of these particles, such as the interparticle interaction and the particles’ shape, colloids can act as building blocks that self-assembly into larger structures.

Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden

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LUMC Research Building, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC, Leiden

LUMC Education Building, Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD, Leiden

Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ, Leiden

Legal education initiative of the Leiden University, the University of Groningen and Universitas Indonesia.

Oude UB, Rapenburg 70, 2311 EZ, Leiden

The BOCA project explores new forms of communicating academic knowledge as a way to strengthen the connection between the university and society.

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…

This summer school will explore the concept of socioeconomic diplomacy in the context of global empire building (16th-19th centuries).

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The demolition of the high-rise building is ready. The remaining debris are removed and the area is cleared. For the demolition, the University applied the BREEAM evaluation method at the level of ‘Excellent’, which means that the demolition operations were carbon neutral and did not cause any form…

The goal of this book is to place architectural studies, in which people’s interactions with each other and material resources are key, at the crossing of both landscape studies and material culture studies, where it belongs.

The Feature Co-occurrence Constraint theory proposed in this dissertation provides a means to capture the development of the language learning child's segment inventory.

Tax scandals, like the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the Pandora Papers, have made taxation a major topic of public debate. Learn more about this in the new minor Tax and Society: Building a Sustainable and Fair Tax System.

Pieter de la Court, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden

We investigate the buildup of galaxies from various vantage points. The first two chapters focus on the stellar content of galaxies, especially the distribution of stellar masses at birth and potential variations therein in various galactic environments.

Multi-objective evolutionary computation aims to find high quality (Pareto optimal) solutions that represent the trade-off between multiple objectives.