361 search results for “leiden empowerment fund” in the Public website
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Archaeology students find 7th-century graves
Two graves dating from the 7th century have been discovered during an archaeological excavation in Leiden. One of the graves was found by a student of Archaeology during the first-year fieldwork project that took place at the same time as the excavation. The well-preserved graves are interesting because…
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Bio Science Park: from empty fields to hip neighbourhood
New housing in old labs and striking architecture for University buildings and high-tech companies, not to mention waterside parks. An exhibition in Oude UB shows the radical changes that are in store for the Leiden Bio Science Park over the coming years.
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How Witte, the garden manager, made the Hortus flourish
For more than forty years Heinrich Witte was responsible for the flora in the Hortus botanicus in Leiden. The 19th-century garden manager made the Netherlands famous with plants from Japan. The Old University Library is showing an exhibition of his work (19 August to 4 November).
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A first glimpse at the new SRON building
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. The headquarters of the institute will relocate to the Science Campus of Leiden University. In October 2019, the first pile was officially put into the ground; in 2021, the building will be ready for use. A first glimpse at the building that will…
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How to communicate: LLP Skills Café
On the menu of the LLP Skills Café no beer and snacks, but communication skills as listening, resolving conflicts, and giving feedback. ‘Once you really learn to listen, you become a better leader and nicer friend.’
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444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant for Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart
Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, PhD candidates in the Digital Archaeology research group and the Data Science Research Programme, have been awarded a 444 grant by Young Academy Leiden. They are going to use it to hold a session in Oxford on improving collaboration between researchers…
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Flying visit by high-ranking Chinese delegation
A high-ranking delegation from China visited Leiden on 6 November. The party of some 25 officials from the CPPCC – a Chinese advisory body comparable with the Dutch Senate - visited the Leiden Observatory, the Hortus Botanicus and the Asian Library.
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More-than-Planet exhibition gives perspective
What is Planet A? A new exhibition in the Old Observatory sheds light on how we all have different perceptions of earth. In five art installations, visitors are confronted with their own beliefs and how these differ from those of others.
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Student in war time
Jacques Waisvisz (98) is one of our oldest living alumni. As a Jewish student in the Second World War, he was forbidden from completing his studies. How does he look back at that time, and what was life like afterwards? ‘No one thought that the situation here would become so bad.’
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Nienke Beets wins prize for connecting nature and art
Nienke Beets of the Leiden Hortus botanicus has won the brand new Joke 't Hart Prize for connecting nature and art. For the botanical garden in Leiden, she developed a series of colourful plant icons and an educational board game. On 20 May, the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens (NVBT) unanimously…
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‘LIBC Junior is bursting with new ideas’
How does the brain develop from birth up to adolescence? And why are young people given so little information about the development of their brain? Two new websites of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition provide an answer.
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Education Festival presents the future of teaching
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on teaching at universities over the past two years. Through force of circumstances, lecturers have adapted much faster to a digital future. On 7 June Leiden Teachers Academy’s annual Education Festival (working language is English) will present insights on this ‘new n…
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Life Sciences Café visits NeCEN
On 21 March The Netherlands Centre for Electron Nanoscopy (NeCEN) hosted the Life Sciences Café. Around 60 people from neighbour companies from the Leiden BioScience Park visited the facility for cryo-electron microscopy to get a glimpse behind the scenes. Head of NeCEN Ludo Renault believes it was…
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Posting preprints: ‘There is no reason not to’
Leiden University publishes the highest percentage of preprints in the Netherlands. Why is that and why post your article online before it has been peer reviewed? Professor of Quantitative Science Studies and keen preprint poster Ludo Waltman explains.
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Global Impact in Health Symposium
Symposium | Leiden2022
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Antibiotica Scavenger Hunt
Speurtocht
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‘The Honours Academy is a testing ground’
Pushing the limits and trying things out. The academic year of the Honours Academy started on 10 October and all the speakers encouraged students to jump in at the deep end.
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A Change of Course: When Will We Realise We Are All In The Same Boat
Part Three: A Change of Course
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Leiden2022 Life Sciences and Health Week
Conference
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European Science in the City Festival
Festival
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Dutch Bio Science Week
Event
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The impact of climate change on groups of people
The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will provide more insight. How does climate change affect whether people work together or conversely end up as opponents? And what can we learn from societies…
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The magic of projection
Video projections in contemporary art are convincing not because they depict reality, but because they show new possibilities within that reality. Artist Sophie Ernst demonstrates this in a thesis and an exhibition. She defends her PhD on 8 December.
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More-than-Planet
Exhibition
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OSCL meets YAL: The challenges of working with an open science mindset in a business driven environment
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Making data reusable in the social sciences
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Online walk-in hour for anything OS and responsible scientific conduct related
Lecture
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Open Science Lunch - Faculty of Humanities
Debate, Lunch
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: User experiences on preregistration
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
Lecture
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Opening LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition: Crafting Cultures
Exhibition
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OSCoffee: Disseminating Knowledge through YouTube
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Form and Content Innovations in Open Publishing
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Publish Your Reviews
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Practicing what we preach: Our journey toward open science
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Credit where credit is due - a lesson from team science
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Better coding for reproducible research
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Assessing robustness through multiverse analysis – Applications in research and education
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Direct publishing as an answer to problems in scholarly publishing
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: a hands-on introduction to preregistration
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Open Access Q&A, explaining different options based on four researcher profiles
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Open Educational Resources (OER)
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: ChatGPT in science: academic (dis)honesty or better science?
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: Experimenting with an open, continuous deployment PhD dissertation
Lecture
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Open Science Coffee: A hands-on guide to preprints
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Open Science in Criminology - barriers and opportunities
Lecture
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OSCoffee: The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars
Lecture