The governance structure of Campus The Hague (CDH) will be altered. This has been decided in consultation with the University Council, which issued a positive recommendation about this.Ton Liefaard and Jan Crijns will become the joint holders of the CDH Education portfolio, and Rolf Oosterloo will become the new holder of the CDH Operations portfolio. They will hold these positions alongside their current ones, and together with CDH Chair Erwin Muller will comprise the CDH Board as of 1 September. The CDH Board will be responsible for implementation, coordination and monitoring. Suzy Sirks-Bong has been appointed the new Executive Director of CDH as of 1 July. In recent years, she has held the Operational Management portfolio at the Faculty of Humanities.
In dermatology, there should be a high level of multidisciplinary collaboration among institutes and specialists, Professor of Translational Dermatology, Robert Rissmann, will say in his inaugural lecture on 8 July. He is building an infrastructure that will put pre-clinical and clinical skin research more firmly on the map.
Gelderland Heritage and Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology have won the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022 in the ‘research’ category with the Heritage Quest citizen science project. ‘Heritage Quest has shown that citizens can play an active role in protecting cultural heritage by creating knowledge and that this can build lasting relationships among experts and the wider community.’
Without scientific knowledge, we won’t be able to tackle the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change, energy transition, social inequality and coronavirus, for example. Professor by Special Appointment of the Social Value of Science Laurens Hessels is therefore calling for more transdisciplinary collaboration. ‘Researchers are still reluctant to seek out such collaboration when this is the key to the wicked problems in society.’ Inaugural lecture on 24 June.
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Latin America matters! With its rich history, culture, its impressive resilience and creative innovation in the face of such a diverse array of challenges, Latin America can indeed show the way forward inspiring for positive change. Working together with Latin American institutions, our researchers engage in creating a platform for equitable knowledge exchange paramount in addressing complex global challenges. Leiden University shows in three short films what joint projects are like.
