Fiber Crafts is a space for all experienced or aspiring creatives to relax after a stressful week. Whether you’re looking to learn knitting, crochet, or just want some company while working on your own project, you are welcome at our weekly meetings. For beginners, we provide materials and guidance to get started with your first project. You can also look forward to fun workshops throughout the year, including tie-dye or jewellery making! Through our collaboration with the local charity Wool for Warmth, you can help a good cause by donating some of your creations to homeless people in the Hague.

Chairs: Markéta Hauferová

Contact: mhauferova@gmail.com

Welcome to the Meditation Committee – your gateway to inner peace and calm amidst the university hustle. Whether you're a seasoned meditator or just starting out, everyone is welcome. Our committee is all about diving into self-discovery and cultivating a deeper understanding of ourselves. Through a variety of meditation techniques, we guide you on a journey to mental silence and tranquility. It's not just about the meditation itself; we're a tight-knit community, where sharing experiences is as essential as finding serenity. So, take a break from the LUC-buzz and join us for our weekly sessions and thematic events such as Beach Yoga, Hugging Meditation, Forest Meditation or Acting Meditation. Together, we'll create meaningful connections and spread self-awareness within our bubble. 

Chair: Martina Orofino 

Contact: m.orofino@umail.leidenuniv.nl

Through the use of various forms of media, LUC.identities (LUC.id) aims to document and showcase the identity of Leiden University College, through its building, events, staff and students. Whether it be incoming first years who want to understand what the LUC community is like, or students and alumni looking back at the great memories they made, the content made by LUC.id aims to be timeless. 

We do this through diverse contents, both online and offline in the form of both video and photography series. Our video series include year-old traditions, such as “LUC Cribs” which showcases how LUC students decorate their rooms and “Songbook” in which students get the chance to talb about their music tase,  but we are also working on some exciting new video projects. Our photography series include taking pictures of events, a collaborations with PRISMxPAX, and hosting photography exhibitions. 

As part of LUC.id, you have the creative freedom and access to resources that allows you to create your own project capturing the identities at LUC.

Chair: Eva Norris

Contact: luc.idboardmembers@gmail.com

Online: LUC.ID

In the visual arts committee we do all kinds of events to let the creative mind roam free. Some of these events include collage-making, clay modelling, sketching around the city, and our most popular event: life drawings! You may also find us doing some cool projects with other committees. 

We have weekly events with different activities each time, so for instance if you like working with your hands but are not particularly into painting, surely there will be an event throughout the block that you might enjoy! 

Chair: Henriette Loosli

Contact:  lucvisualarts@gmail.com

Analog photography is a lengthy and challenging process. Nowadays we tend to develop and have our strips of films scanned at camera stores, however, this abandons some integral parts of the procedure. With AnalogLUC providing the necessary equipment and guidance, you will master all three steps of the classic photography process, by shooting, developing, and enlarging these pictures yourself. Each block, new LUC students have the chance to discover this creative world.

Chair: Kasimir von Klitzing

Contact: analogphotoluc@gmail.com

Sex.Co is the dedicated committee within Fortuna focused on fostering a healthy understanding of sexual health, relationships, and intimacy. We provide educational workshops, a resource hub, and open conversations to empower students in making informed decisions about their sexual wellbeing. Join us in promoting open, respectful, and informed discussions about sexuality. Through the work of our committee, we aim to create an environment in which conversations on all topics, especially those considered taboo, are made possible. We hope to not only create space for these conversations, but also have them be framed without judgement, while encouraging self-reflection and mutual understanding. These conversations support, empower, and educate students at LUC. This is especially important considering the fact that LUC students have received a wide range of education regarding physical, sexual and mental health in their previous education systems. In a close and intense community like LUC, we want to enable students to ask necessary questions openly, take care and reflect on themselves, and raise awareness of everyone's own responsibility to make LUC an open-minded and safe space for all students. SexCo is the platform in which these conversations are facilitated and guided.

Chair: Dóri Kosaras

Contact: sexco.luc@gmail.com  

Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/Sexco.luc?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=630d7236-5847-4132-9710-e1a324cc10c4               Instagram: @sexco.luc

Model United Nations is a familiar activity to many of you, as you probably took part in them during high school. To some, it would have been a fun extra-curricular involving fancy clothes and fabulous parties, while for others it was an opportunity to engage with the challenges we face as a global community and attempt to tackle them. Here at LUC, both of these interpretations are key aspects of MUN life; One can’t have a lavish social without having to defend their country’s interests first, and likewise all work and no play would drive anyone up a wall.

We at LUCMUN hope to provide you with an educating and entertaining MUN experience. We are revamping our pre conference Prep track to teach new delegates important skills such as negotiation, public speaking and resolution writing. We will also temper these lessons with delegation bonding sessions at pubs once a week, where you can share a drink with your new friends.

The COVID 19 Pandemic has forced us to move the first semester’s conferences and prep track online, but rest assured they will be just as good as any other MUN experience. These prep tracks will also prepare you for the in person conferences we hope to attend in semester 2! Applications are open to all students for all conferences, and more information will be provided during the committee fair in week 2. Applications open at the end of September, and we hope to see you there!

Chair: 

Contact: lucmun.board@gmail.com

Online: Lucmun - Leiden University College Model United Nations

The LUC Volunteer committee provides students a chance to step outside the “bubble” by contributing to the community of the Hague, in particular by aiding those who are at a disadvantage, which can be financially and/ or physically. Students can acquire new skills and evolve further by meeting new people from LUC as well as people from the Hague. This results in students expanding their network by coming in contact with different groups and subcultures within the city.

Furthermore, this committee brings English speaking students in contact with local volunteering work and organizations around the city. It may also act as a starting point for students to become long-term volunteers or as an extracurricular activity that may provide a break from academics.

The LUC Volunteer Committee organizes volunteering activities year-round and aims to help those in need in our surroundings.These volunteering activities range from more practical activities, such as painting, to more social activities, like going for a walk with elderly people.

Chair: 

Email: luc.volunteer@gmail.com

Online: Luc Volunteer

Act Aware is the sustainability committee of Leiden University College. We busy ourselves with all the issues, ideas and events regarding sustainability in and around the university.

Events we have organized in the past were zero waste workshops, sustainable decoration workshops, movie screening, panel discussions and outings, such as to the sustainable fashion show. Ideas for events are always welcome and we love collaborating with other committees, organizations and students! For this year, we have planned an rainforest run, a vegan buffet, a sustainability (pub) quiz and more.

However, one of our goals is also to improve LUC structurally. Therefore, we are actively working toward getting recycling bins back for the LUC building, as well as make the cafeteria and Coasters more sustainable. Again, we are open to all ideas for structural improvements, too!

Further, it is one of our regular tasks to take care of the lovely garden on the terrace, and thus keep up LUC’s own (urban) green space. Any person with green fingers is very much invited to put their hands in our very own LUC soil.

Although we are but a student committee, we believe it is unbelievably important to dedicate ourselves to sustainability. In our opinion, in every moment, there is the possibility of a better future.

Chair: 

Contact: actawarecommittee@gmail.com

Online: Act Aware Consumption