12 February: Start Collaborative Urbanism Design Workshop Series with Hugo Pilate

Quite a number of our students have signed up for the challenge of redeveloping the Heart of The Hague as a Central Innovation District. Coming Friday will be the first out of five sessions to be held.

12 February: Earth Science Career Event http://www.sald.nl/ 

The Earth Science Career Event is coming up soon. It can be an interesting place for orientation towards the job market. Don’t be hold off by the title of earth science. Urban Studies is a very relevant field to the employers present during this event!

15 February: Deadline study abroad with Erasmus+

To apply for an exchange spot through the Faculty of Humanities’ Erasmus+ programme, you need to submit evidence that your coordinator of studies approves your study abroad plan. Your complete application needs to be filed before the 15th of February.  Please check the following link for more information:
https://www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/study–studying/studying-abroad/exchange/approval-and-application/humanities/urban-studies?cf=humanities&cd=urban-studies#tab-2

19 February: Sustainablity Career Event

The Sustainability Career Event is an initiative of SustainableMotion, a project agency that specializes in developing and executing programs that give companies fresh insights. In this way companies become future-proof in a rapidly changing world. Since 2015 in collaboration with Students for Tomorrow. www.sustainabilitycareerevent.nl

16 April: Smart City Summit and Expo

As artificial intelligence technology develops, the applications begin to play a key role in government delivery of citizen services. Smart cities are entering to a new phase of Smart City 2.0 by integrating AI as well as IoT technologies into services. Check https://en.smartcity.org.tw/

Urban Studies Research Conference 

Our second-year students present research proposals during an online conference. The conference will be held in the context of the course advanced qualitative methods. Since students are known to come up with innovative and interesting ideas, it will be worthwhile for both staff and students to join this event! Please be invited to this event and put it into your agenda. Details will follow! To even light up the atmosphere, we will also invite our contacts from the professional field (to be made known).