221 search results for “die natalis 2026” in the Student website
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obligations as a student of Leiden University (Student Charter 2025-2026)
Education, Organisation
- Kids Activities @ Middle Eastern Culture Market
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Launch of the Faculty of Archaeology’s new DEAI Work Plan (2026–2028)
Facility, Human resources, Social
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Honorary doctorate for Graça Machel: fund for female students from South Africa
On the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate to children’s rights activist Graça Machel, a fund has been established that will enable two female students from South Africa to come and study in Leiden.
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Wanted: student-members Programme Committee 2025-2026
Education, Organisation, Human resources
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A real professor in the classroom
It’s starting to become a real Dies Natalis tradition: on 8 February professors from Leiden University teach a class at primary schools in the region. This introduces children to academia and teaches them more about conducting research. ‘Had you expected me to be a woman?’
- Take part in the National Student Survey 2026 and win great prizes!
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Rotating Honorary Chair in Enforcement of Children’s Rights 2025/2026
Kirsten Sandberg appointed as Rotating Honorary Chair in Enforcement of Children’s Rights 2025/2026
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Faculty member of the Leiden University Student platform (LUS) 2025-2026
Organisation
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Students bring ‘Archaeology of the Margins’ to centre stage at SOYA 2026
On 10 April, the Faculty of Archaeology will host the Symposium of Young Archaeologists (SOYA), a fully student organised conference dedicated to the theme Archaeology of the Margins.
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Caspar SchmeitsFaculty of Science
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Meet the student candidates for the Faculty Council Archaeology 2025-2026
Organisation
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Una Europa Staff Week 2026: come together as staff and students to transform how we learn and work
Education, Research
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stepping down as Rector Magnificus of Leiden University on 15 January 2026 to become Rector of TU Delft
Having served on the Executive Board for over nine years, the last five of which as Rector Magnificus, Hester Bijl will leave Leiden University at the start of next year. In a new step in her career, she will become Rector Magnificus on the Executive Board of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)…
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D&I Symposium 2026: ‘You can’t call something inclusive if it doesn’t include everyone’
How can our university really become inclusive? This is what students and staff discussed at our annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. ‘It’s moving from a have-to to a want-to’
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Rosalba Icaza GarzaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Digital Humanities Winter School 2026
Workshops
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Humanities Career Event 2026
Conference
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7th NINO Annual Meeting 2026
Annual Meeting
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Night of the Lobbyist 2026
Evenement
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Bas van Rijn wins Fritz Stolz-Preis 2024
LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn was awarded the Fritz Stolz-Preis on 7 June 2024 for his PhD Dissertation “The Experimental Culture of Afterlife Research: Attempts by Spiritual Animal Magnetizers to Prove Life after Death”.
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Study Skills 2025-2026 (various aspects)
Study support
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Campus The Hague Career Event 2026
Career and apply for jobs
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Kick-off Legal Tech Challenge 2026
Challenge
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New Year’s reception FSW 2026
New Year’s reception
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Study Structure Group (POPcorner FSW) 2026 (ENG)
Study support
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2025-2026
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Studieplangroep (POPcorner FSW) 2025 -2026 (NL)
Study support
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de BaarFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Faculty Opening Academic Year 2025-2026
Academic ceremony
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P.J. VethNonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden
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Facilities
As a student at Leiden University, you have access to a wide range of digital and physical facilities. These include tools to help you with your studies, spaces to conduct research and practical facilities that can help you in your daily student life. On the pages below you can find all information…
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Nacht van de Digitale Veiligheid
Festival
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Faculty Board responds to most frequently asked questions
Following the announcement of revised financial projections at the start of the academic year, the Faculty Board was keen to engage in dialogue with the wider faculty. Through information sessions held at all institutes, at the Faculty Office and in The Hague, we met with many of our staff members to…
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Humanities Pilot Research Projects and COIn Infrastructure Symposium 2026
Symposium
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Campus The Hague Career Event 2026: Job Fair
Career and apply for jobs
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What do complex molecules tell us about star formation?
How do you progress from an immense gas cloud somewhere in the universe to a star with planets? Research by Astronomy PhD student Martijn van Gelder sheds more light on the earliest phases of this process. He will receive his doctorate on November 24th.
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Dorine SchellensFaculty of Humanities
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Opening academic year 2025-2026
Academic ceremony
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Leiden University is travelling to the past and the future for its 450th birthday
Leiden University is celebrating its 450th anniversary in 2025 with a feast for the eyes, ears and spirit. The anniversary year opens with an extra special Dies Natalis on 7 February. Highlights includes an alumni festival, three exhibitions and a canal concert.
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Twenty years of MIRD: four alumni speak up
Big celebration upcoming weekend: MIRD's 20th anniversary is on the cards. Four alumni from different periods tell what this unique two-year master's in International Relations and Diplomacy has brought them.
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…
- Ready for the start of our faculty’s anniversary celebrations?
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Arno KnobbeFaculty of Science
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Update #iamapsychologist: Why Psychology and the international bachelor's programme are essential
Psychologen laten zich horen over de plannen om de internationale bacheloropleidingen op te heffen in de Randstad en Tilburg. Het inititatief #Ikbeneenpsycholoog van Judith Schomaker op LinkedIn vindt navolging. Lees een selectie van de posts en ook het blog van Eiko Fried over de consequenties.
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‘Divisions are there to be bridged’
Annetje Ottow is stepping down as President of Leiden University’s Executive Board on 1 September 2025 after almost five years in the role. She looks back at the highs and lows – and ahead to what’s next.
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‘Interaction between politics, science and colonial impact often overlooked’
How did science relate to politics and colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Assistant Professor Lauren Lauret has been awarded an NWO XS grant to map the colonial and political activities of nineteenth-century scientists.