2,729 search results for “chemische water en ethics” in the Public website
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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'Climate issues and sustainability should be part of every study programme'
Having lectures on sustainability when you're a first-year student of Law, or a course on climate change when you're studying Public Administration may sound odd, but that is just what Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences Thijs Bosker wants to see happening. Together with his colleague Paul…
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Celebrating Twenty Years of MIRD
On March 25, the Advanced Masters of Science in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the programme. The celebrations began with the Reconnect event, bringing current students and alumni together, and concluded with the MIRD Gala. Throughout the day, the tight-knit…
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Anoma van der Veere: ‘In Japan, the awkward little masks symbolise the government’s failure’
Leiden Asia Centre researcher Anoma van der Veere argues that the Japanese government has failed to respond properly to Covid-19. There were difficulties with implementing government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus – in some cases those measures were not even taken seriously. How…
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands
Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and they were loving it. 'Yesterday evening we were completely covered in mud.'
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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The Oegstgeest bowl and the bones of a giant king mentioned in Beowulf
Recently, archeologists of Leiden University made an excavation in Oegstgeest, where they found a unique silver bowl from the first half of the seventh century as well as imported pottery and winebarrels. Thijs Porck, lecturer in Old English language and culture at Leiden University, places the Oegstgeest…
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Chemist Marc Koper receives Spinoza Prize for research on electrolysis
Professor Marc Koper researches how you can use electrical energy to make or break chemical bonds. He has just been awarded a Spinoza Prize, the Netherlands’ highest personal science award, for his fundamental research into how this form of electrolysis works.
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Reflections from the field: Linking the past with the present through pickling, fermenting, and food preservation in Gdańsk, Poland.
PhD candidate Ola Gracjasz writes about fermentation practices in Gdańsk, Poland.
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Archaeology Open Day: ‘Excavations are cool’
‘We’ve come because our granddaughter started studying archaeology here this year. But I’m really interested in archaeology too.’ The Open Day at the Faculty of Archaeology on 12 October was a field day for archaeology fans: workshops, lectures, activities for children and a pub quiz that covered the…
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Not wrapping but folding: Bacteria also organise their DNA (but they do it a bit differently)
Some bacteria, it turns out, have proteins much like ours that organise the DNA in their cells. They just do it a bit differently. This is revealed by new research from biochemists at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Biology. The discovery helps us better understand…
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Webb data suggest potential atmosphere around rocky exoplanet
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of any rocky planet atmosphere outside our solar system.
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure
In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded that they constituted a genuine Roman treasure. Here follows a reconstruction in three acts.
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'Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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Hall of Fame 2015
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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Offshore windfarms and fishes - APELAFICO NWO-NWA public closing event
Lecture and excursion
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European Citizens’ Initiative and participatory democracy in the EU
Lecture, Seminar
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Archaeozoology is essential to modern environmental management
Lecture
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Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) 3rd International Conference
Conference
- Museum Night
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The Remains of the Kula Devi: Broken Statuary and Elite Legitimation in Postcolonial Bengal
Lecture, Vrienden van het Instituut Kern
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The Samarkand Cotton Mill that Very Nearly Was
Lecture
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International Symposium 150 years New Waterway
Conference, Symposium
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Affective Fish
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Van Marum Colloquium - Development of materials for hydrogen production via ethanol reform
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium - The in-situ observation for electrochemical energy experiment by Operando X-ray spectroscopy
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Biologically Inspired Catalytic Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Technologies
Lecture
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Impact on Russia's war in Ukraine on ecology of Ukraine and Europe
Debate
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Graphic techniques: the linoleum cut
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- 2nd Annual Meeting Sign Languages In the Netherlands (SLIN 2024)
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Online Master's Experience Day Governance of Sustainability
Study information
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Painting with Acrylics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Institute for Philosophy Opening Academic Year 2022-2023
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium 'Design for Democracy: Deliberation and Experimentation'
Lecture
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PhD workshop: Epistemologies in PhD Research
Workshop
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CPP Colloquium: A Defence of Group Ownership
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium: "The Normative Implications of Structurally Supported Autonomy"
Lecture
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“The Origins and Legacies of Moral and Political Thought in China: A Book Discussion with Tao Jiang.”
Conference
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Making Islam Work: Islamic Authority among Muslims in Western Europe
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Lecture by Prof. Taylor: Dementia at the Ragged Edges of Family and the State
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Filling an Accountability Gap? How a Standing UN Investigative Mechanism Would Further International Criminal Justice
Conference
- Farm Excursion: 5 November
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Newsroom Dissonance: How new digital technologies are changing professional roles in contemporary newsrooms
PhD defence
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Law, Gender, Race and Intersectionality
Conference Day
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Fragile Resonance | Jason Danely
Lecture, Research Seminar
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LUCIP Lecture: The Wind in the Sails: Vīrya in Bodhicāryāvatāra
Lecture