LEIDEN UNIVERSITY SERVICE CENTRE INTERNATIONAL STAFF (SCIS)
Apartments
PhD candidates and international (guest)employees of Leiden University may contact the Service Centre International Staff (SCIS) for housing.
Long Stay apartments in Leiden (duration: minimum of 1 month), owned by Stichting Universitaire Woonwijk Boerhaave
1. Anatomy Building (Leiden):
The apartments in the Anatomy Building are unfurnished. There is floor covering and curtains. The kitchen has a cooking plate and a refrigerator.
2. Boerhaavelaan/Haarlemmerstraat/Van Swietenstraat/Marienpoelstraat (Leiden):
Most of the apartments are renovated and furbished. More information about the apartments you can contact SCIS.
What do I need to do to find housing?
The allocation process is done via SCIS. If you have any questions, please contact SCIS on their website.
First payment
Long Stay contract:
You must make the first payment before signing the tenancy agreement. This payment consists of the rent for the first month (or the first month-and-a-half), deposit and the reservation/handling fee. You pay this first invoice in portal.suwb.nl. This is possible from a foreign bank account.
SHWJ/SUWB must receive this first payment no later than 2 weeks after your documents have been approved.
Contract
Boerhaavelaan/Haarlemmerstraat/Van Swietenstraat/Mariënpoelstraat/Anatomy building:
You sign a tenancy agreement with SHWJ/SUWB with an end date if you rent an apartment at Mariënpoelstraat. This is due to demolition and renovation work. At Haarlemmerstraat/Boerhaavelaan/Van Swietenstraat/Anatomy building you will sign a tenancy agreement with or without an end date. You can stay in the apartment for as long as you have a contract with Leiden University, with a maximum period of two or five years depending on your position.
You have one month notice to terminate your tenancy agreement.
