424 search results for “reading about” in the Staff website
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ABP pension accrual
If you receive a salary from Leiden University, you automatically accrue pension with the Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (ABP). You can supplement your pension with ABP. In addition to a retirement pension, ABP also offers surviving dependents insurance and a work disability pension.
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Personal data: privacy and the GDPR
As an employee of Leiden University, you probably work with or come into contact with personal data. The concept of ‘personal data’ is core to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you work with personal data, you must be able to explain clearly, comprehensively and in simple language how…
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For supervisors
As a supervisor, you are responsible for the supervision of your PhD candidate. Read here about your duties as supervisor and the procedures relating to this, as well as which forms you will need.
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Kiem grant
On this page you will read all about the Kiem funding tool.
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Important changes to the PhD Regulations
Organisation
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Leiden University PhD Association (LEO) is looking for new board members
Social
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Leiden University PhD Association (LEO) is looking for new board members
Social
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Leiden research into corona waste ends up in New York Times
Face masks and plastic gloves are supposed to protect us from corona, but they are becoming an increasing problem for the environment. In a special series of the New York Times, Leiden biologist Liselotte Rambonnet and alumnus Auke-Florian Hiemstra talk about their research and the special website they…
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Terms of Employment Individual Choices Model open from 1 February
Human resources
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Changes to damage reporting procedure
Facility
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Stay up to date with the Social Resilience & Security research programme
Research
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Support students from Ukraine and Russia via the Emergency Fund
Social
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Leave
The Individual Choices Model offers a number of options for buying or saving additional leave days, or exchanging leave days for extra income.
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Stand as a candidate for the University elections 2024
Organisation
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Sports membership
If you have a membership at the University Sports Centre or SportCIty, you can offset the costs of your sports membership against your gross income.
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Study and training expenses
If you follow a study or training programme, you can under certain conditions offset your study and training costs against your gross income.
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Union fees
If you are a member of a union, you may offset your union fees against your gross holiday allowance or end-of-year bonus.
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Office 365 and OneDrive
Via Office 365 and OneDrive you can work from all kinds of places and on different devices without having to use Remote Workplace.
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Office 365 and OneDrive
Via Office 365 and OneDrive you can work from all kinds of places and on different devices without having to use Remote Workplace.
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PhD and interested in Europe? Sign up for the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Research
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People used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago
Cut marks on the bones of bears show that people in North-West Europe used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago.
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Who deserves a Spinoza or Stevin Prize?
Research
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New technique makes it easier to determine how our ancestors used fire
The use of fire can tell us a lot about human evolution. Archaeologist Femke Reidsma has developed a more accurate technique to identify how our ancestors used fire. Existing archaeological studies will need to be revised. Reidsma’s study was published in Nature Scientific Reports on 2 November.
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Leiden University Academy: Deepen, enrich and grow
Leiden University Academy is making lifelong learning even better! The entire range of programmes on offer for professionals has been expanded and united under this name.
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Young Academy Leiden (YAL) is looking for new members
Organisation, Social
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Innovating and connecting: check out the new University Strategic Plan
Organisation
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Allocation of funds for starter and incentive grants
Education, Organisation, Research
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Proposed decision by Minister Kuipers: Children’s heart surgery to end in Leiden
Ernst Kuipers, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, announced on 13 February that he plans to remove children’s heart surgery from the Centre for Congenital Heart Defects Amsterdam - Leiden (CAHAL). He wants to concentrate this highly specialised care for children with congenital heart defects in…
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Gerrit Dusseldorp: A visiting researcher at KwaZulu-Natal Museum
Under the title “New insights from old collections”, the archaeological research was introduced on the Museum’s news page.
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Olympic gold for Industrial Ecology student Dirk Uittenbogaard
Dirk Uittenbogaard, a student on the Delft-Leiden Master’s in Industrial Ecology, has won a gold medal for rowing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Uittenbogaard took gold in the men’s quadruple sculls, together with Abe Wiersma, Tone Wieten and Koen Metsemakers.
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Leiden University receives grant to professionalise ‘Lifelong Learning’
Leiden University has received a Lifelong Learning grant that will enable it to significantly expand its learning for professionals, for example for the government in The Hague and the Leiden Bio Science Park.
- Leiden University Global Fund to open first seed funding call on 1 September
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Beehive Student Centre
Turfmarkt 104, The Hague
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Education of your children
In the Netherlands children attend school from the age of 4 and are legally required to do so from the age of 5. Elementary school, or primary education (basisschool), lasts 8 years.
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Open call: submit a research proposal for Lowlands Science
Research
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Background information on student well-being
To find out more about student well-being, check out the information below.
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Sallie Mae Student Loans
Bachelor, Master, Short Course, PhD
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Professional expenses
If you incur professional expenses, such as professional association fees, you can offset these expenses against your gross income via the Individual Choices Model.
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International news platform seeks Leiden academics with a good story
Would you like to share your academic research with a diverse international audience? On the not-for-profit news platform The Conversation, academics and journalists team up to write research-based articles. Leiden University recently partnered with this platform, and two of our colleagues share their…
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Students once again explore archaeology Oss
Students of the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology once again explore the archaeology of Oss between April and May of 2023. New areas along the Gewandeweg will be investigated. The local news platform DTV Nieuws featured an article about it.
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Calling all researchers: Seize interdisciplinary opportunities on Wednesday 17 May
Research
- Taskforce on conditions for scholarship and external PhD candidates
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Stand as a candidate in the university elections!
The university elections will be held from 17 to 21 May 2021. Students and staff can shortly put themselves forward as candidates for the University Council, Faculty Councils or Department Councils.
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Leiden University to join Una Europa
Leiden University is joining the Una Europa European University. Together with other partner universities Leiden University will draw on their collective strengths to shape the future of Europe through innovative education, research and international exchange.
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Archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina interviewed for podcast Hortus Amsterdam
The Hortus Talks is a podcast series as well as a botanical college tour, recorded in the greenhouse in the middle of the Hortus Amsterdam. The theme of the podcast was plant migration. In this context Anastasia explained the importance of understanding how hunter-gatherers impacted past landscapes…
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Training course Leading from the middle
Management, Leadership
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ELS Atelier – for lawyers who want to learn about empirical research
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Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers
Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elaborate their ideas over a period of three years.
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Join the discussion on the university's future direction
What should our education and research look like in 2027? How can we make the university more sustainable and achieve greater impact? The new Strategic Plan will set the direction for the coming years, and the Executive Board wants students and staff to provide as much input as possible. Would you…
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Why standing as a candidate for University participation pays off
Do you want to promote the interests of students or staff? If you do, put yourself forward as a candidate for the University Council or the Faculty Council between 5 and 8 April. Two council members, PhD candidate Elisabeth Kerr and Law student Mante Kaaks, tell us about their experiences.