‘Support scientific talent with your legacy’. This is the slogan of the Leave a Legacy campaign that was recently launched by the 15 Dutch university funds. The funds hope to inform people about the different options for including university funds in their wills.

Below is a list of frequently asked questions about the LUF. If you can’t find the answers you need, please contact us at 071 513 05 03 or info@luf.leidenuniv.nl. We will be happy to help.

At the meeting held in March 2018, Leiden University Fund’s (LUF) Committee for Academic Expenditure (Commissie voor Wetenschappelijke Bestedingen, CWB) discussed 95 applications.

Our motto is 'From ambition to achievement'. We can only do this with the help of our donors. Not all academic education and research is financed by the government. This makes contributions from donors indispensable.

Are you looking for financing for your project or research? Who knows, crowdfunding might be the way for you to realise your plans. Crowdfunding is a relatively new way to finance projects.

Below you will find the decisions made by the LISF committee in its meeting on 14 December 2021.

Thanks to medical innovations, more children are recovering from serious interventions such as heart surgery or stem cell transplants. A remarkable achievement, but for eight out of ten children and their families this has a lasting medical and psychosocial effect. Paediatric haematologist Anne de Pagter and paediatric cardiologist Arno Roest want to research how support for these children and their families can be improved.

A woman is murdered every eight days in the Netherlands. Marieke Liem, professor of Security and Interventions at Leiden University, is working on the Femicide Monitor, a public database on femicide in the Netherlands. Femicide is when women are killed because of their gender. More knowledge is vital to protecting women in the future.

Growing numbers of young people with complex mental health problems are trapped in a vicious circle of despair. This seriously affects their future because they drop out of school, self-harm or, in the most extreme cases, die by suicide. Dr Laura Nooteboom and her team are researching how young experts by experience can help support their peers.