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Scientists from the Centre for Safety and Security developed a brand-new Massive Open Online Course ‘Risk in Modern Society’. This online course deals with new and complex forms of threat in modern society, including industrial and natural disasters, infectious diseases, terrorism and violent crime. The curriculum concerns issues such as: what is a threat, how can we analyze this and is there a difference between perceived and real threat? Answers are found from different perspectives, such as criminology, philosophy, computer science and medical sciences.

MRI is one of the most powerful technologies for viewing the inside of the body. Unfortunately it is too expensive and complex for developing countries. That is why Martin van Gijzen, Rob Remis (TU Delft) and Andrew Webb (LUMC) are working on an affordable, simplified version. (bron: Delta)

The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Strategic Alliance has been in place for more than five years. A...

The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Center for Education and Learning (CEL) has launched the Henk Dekker Award. The Henk Dekker Award is a prize that will be awarded annually at the Annual Meeting of CEL to the best education innovator. For his outstanding leadership and all his efforts making CEL the succesful Centre it is nowadays Professor Henk Dekker was awarded the first Henk Dekker award by Anka Mulder.

The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities has launched two multidisciplinary research projects. In the first project, researchers from the three universities will explore whether 'Big, Open and Linked Data’ techniques can be used to gain a better picture of young people who have gone missing from the official records. For this project, the Centre is receiving incentive funding as part of the Dutch Science Agenda's themed programme ‘JOIN – Young people in a resilient society’. In the second project, researchers from Leiden and Rotterdam will conduct research into the use of the data in developing personalised return-to-work programmes. The project is financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW).

The 'Internet of things' is penetrating every aspect of life, including product...