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On March 19 under the UT Idealab leadership interactive seminar on innovative learning methods took place at the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science in Kyiv.

On the 26th of March a topping out ceremony of Tartu University Delta building took place in Tartu. The traditional topping out ceremony celebrated the maximum height of the building (20 meters). The spruce branches wreath was brought down by the Rector of the University of Tartu, Toomas Asser.

UT IdeaLab invites teams with early-stage startup ideas to apply for the NGAL®international business development programme taking place from 2–14 June in Tartu, Tallinn and Charleston, USA. Application deadline is 24 March.

Our visiting professor Siim Kallas gave a gift to the School of Economics and Business Administration – a whole stack of his newly published books that students can find from library.

16 subjects taught at University of Tartu have made it to the international university rankings published in late February. This year two new University of Tartu subjects have entered the rankings of consulting firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) – education ranked in the top 251–300 and business and management in the top 401–450.

Professor Toomas Haldma was elected for the position of Professor of Accounting on part-time basis at the Nord University in northern Norway on 1 January 2019. Professor Haldma has been working closely with the university since 2010 co-supervising and reviewing doctoral theses and conducting visiting seminars. The lecturers from Bodo have contributed to our master and doctoral level courses and have taken part in doctoral summer school events. Prof Haldma will continue to work at our School.

The University of Tartu foundation has awarded the Ernst Jaakson scholarship to Oliver Lukason, a Senior Research Fellow of International Business and Finance. Ernst Jaakson's scholarship is the largest known privately funded scholarship to be awarded to students and research fellows. The size of this award was 18 000 euros.

During the week between 20th and 27th of January 2019 the team CHEDTEB and almost 20 students from Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Brno University of Technology and University of Tartu gathered in Tartu (Estonia) to learn and cooperate together on many amazing workshops, student team pitches and more! As a reward, we all participated in the biggest startup festival in the Baltics - sTARTUp Day 2019! Take a look at a short summary of the activities we did every day!

President of the Republic of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid awarded the economist and psychologist Professor Maaja Vadi with the fourth class of the Order of the White Star for her service as the pioneer in the research area of organisational behaviour and the founder of its school. President Kersti Kaljulaid awarded state decorations to 112 people in appreciation of their services to Estonia before the 101th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia.

The Council of the School of Economics and Business Administration elected Kadri Ukrainski, Professor in Research and Innovation Policy, to the position of Head of School. The term of the Head will begin on 16 February 2019 for a period of three years.

The finals of the students’ business ideas development programme Yep!Starter took place on 17 December in Kyiv. The winner of the main award, tickets and trip to Startup Day was Fonetify, whose browser extension helps to pronounce English text correctly. The author of winning idea Serh Kruchok said that the Yep!Starter programme helped them to develop the idea. “Learning wasn’t always easy, but we got the necessary knowledge and contacts to launch our idea. We are very happy about the win and the opportunity to present our idea at Startup Day in Estonia.”

On Saturday, 1 December, the University of Tartu celebrates the 99th anniversary of the Estonian national university. At the anniversary ceremony, doctorates and honorary doctorates are conferred and the award for contribution to national identity is presented. During the week, many fascinating anniversary events take place at the university – for students, alumni and all those interested.

The specialities of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Tartu rose to high positions in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) university rankings by subject.

The public defence of the dissertation is on 12 November at 14.00 in room 214, J. Liivi 4, University of Tartu. Supervisors: Professor Tiiu Paas (PhD), University of Tartu Senior Research Fellow Jaan Masso (PhD), University of Tartu Opponents: Sten Anspal (PhD), CentAR, Estonia

Apply for the 3rd training session of the joint training cycle "To be the cross-border starter" on 10th October in Athena Center in Tartu, Estonia!

On 27–28 September 2018, the University of Tartu Asian Centre and the Graduate Schools of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA) and Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics (GSLPS), School of Law, School of Economics and Business Administration cordially invite you to the international interdisciplinary confere

Today, on 26 April 2018, the 263-member electoral council elected Professor of Neurosurgery Toomas Asser as rector of the University of Tartu with 187 votes.

Let's start the semester with a learning motivation seminar! First-year students and lecturers are invited to attend the learning motivation seminar “University Years as a Real Development Experience”. The seminar will be held on September 7th, 10:15–13:00, J.Liivi 4-307.