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A circular water supply for Artis Zoo, sustainable software for the Dutch government and better waste management at a hospital: master’s students in Industrial Ecology and Governance of Sustainability have helped answer organisations’…

The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to strengthen fundamental AI research. The Leiden…

Scientists from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) have discovered how specialized immune cells can detect and remove cancers that are ‘invisible’ to the conventional defense mechanisms of the…

What can Robotics and AI bring to archaeological theory and practice? In return, how can archaeology contribute to the developments in robotics and AI research? Colleagues tackled these questions at an event organised by the Faculty of…

Research in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) is conducted in many ways. Well-known are the questionnaires, observations and specific tests, but experimental research in laboratories is also increasingly taking…

A diverse (ad hoc) committee will advise Leiden University’s Executive Board on its exhibitions policy in a broad sense, with a special focus on the painting by Rein Dool in the Academy Building.The committee has been given the following…

Leiden University and Unicef have already been working together for ten years to increase and share information on children’s rights. They are extending this cooperation. Professor of Children’s Rights Ton Liefaard explains what has…

Using regular computers for predicting and reducing the influence of noise in quantum computers – Tim CoopmansNoise in quantum computers is the main hurdle for them to outperform their regular (classical) counterparts. The researchers…

Patients on patient forums share all sorts of things about their illness: from side effects and advice to messages of support. PhD candidate Anne Dirkson uses artificial intelligence (AI) to retrieve this information. ‘Ninety per cent of…

On 24 November a High-Level panel discussion on the occasion of the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the NATO Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and…