A NETWORK UNIVERSITY
Working in networks More than ever before, knowledge sharing and collaboration are key concepts in academia. In view of this, the university of the future will largely be a network university, as universities can only truly realise their ambitions through collaboration with others. Leiden University has partners close to home and on the other side of the world.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
Collaboration makes us better. Close to home, we work with businesses, museums, schools, the municipalities of Leiden and The Hague and other universities. And at a national level, we work with 13 other universities in the Association of Universities The Netherlands (VSNU). The VSNU works with public and private partners. Another example of collaboration is Medical Delta: the Delft-LeidenRotterdam consortium for innovation in health and medical technology. The partners in this consortium are the universities and their medical centres in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam, as well as science parks, incubators, businesses and local and regional government. At the European level, we are a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). LERU is a group of 23 leading European research universities that lobby in their own countries and Europe on the importance of fundamental scientific research. We also have partnerships with many other organisations and institutions. 20
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LEIDEN - DELFT - ERASMUS
Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam work together as LeidenDelft-Erasmus (LDE) Universities. Resolving major societal issues calls on universities to work together, in close cooperation with other partners in society. The three universities work together on regional, national and global issues, thus benefitting from a wealth of high-quality scientific knowledge, the breadth of their largely complementary portfolios and their physical proximity to one another. The three universities conduct joint research and offer joint educational programmes. They collaborate across four societal themes: Sustainable Society, Inclusive Society, Healthy Society and Digital Society. These themes also determine the direction of future teaching and research within the LDE Universities alliance.
EUNIWELL
EUniWell, the European University of Wellbeing, is an alliance that unites seven universities: alongside Leiden, the universities of Birmingham, Cologne, Florence, Linneaus, Nantes and Budapest (Semmelweis). The alliance offers students, researchers
and teachers new, international opportunities for collaboration and development. These universities want to show that diversity and working beyond disciplinary and national borders is the best way to deal with the challenges surrounding wellbeing in universities, in society and in the world as a whole. The alliance focuses on four interdisciplinary areas of research: (1) health, (2) individual and social wellbeing, (3) the living environment and climate, and (4) teacher training programmes and professionalisation of teachers.
LEIDEN CITY OF SCIENCE
In Leiden City of Science, Leiden University, the LUMC, Leiden University of Applied Sciences, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Municipality of Leiden work together on campus development, internationalisation, improving teaching and research, the city as lab, lifestyle and the healthy city.
PLNT
Students and young entrepreneurs work together at PLNT, the Leiden centre for innovation and entrepreneurship. This is where research and entrepreneurship come together.
