Opening Academic Year 2009

The opening of the Academic Year 2009-2010 on Monday, august 31, 2009 at 15:00 hrs. in the Pieterskerk, Pieterskerkhof 1a in Leiden.

The opening speech by Mr Alexander Pechtold, Chairman of the D66 parliamentary party:
Knowledge works: about the public value of academic research
 
Professor Paul F. van der Heijden, Rector Magnificus and President of the Executive Board: 
Inspiration and growth 
 
Presentation by Professor Eveline Crone from the LIBC Junior (LIBC: Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition):
The development of the brain 
 
Presentation by Jaap Jonkers (student), chairman of SIFE Leiden (SIFE: Students in Free Enterprise): 
SIFE Leiden – A head for business, a heart for the world  

A simultaneous translation of the ceremony in English.  
 
Read this text in Dutch