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The University of Tartu will organise its alumni get-together with the slogan “Back to the university” on 18 May 2024. Early-bird tickets at special rates are available from 1 December.

The University of Tartu is inviting future international students to come student shadowing and live one day as a university student.

Successful Launch of the oiAcademy's Ignition Workshop with Full Attendance

Tartu Ülikooli personaliosakond on uuendanud võrdse kohtlemise temaatikat käsitlevat veebilehte.

Public lecture: From Monofunctional City to Vibrant Startup Ecosystem

The Innovation and Technology Management program is a uniquely designed curriculum, to train business leaders with a profound ability to implement ICT solutions within company processes.

Participants will be involved in a one-week challenge-based winter school, where engaging challenges are designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of urban mobility.

In the heart of Estonia, the city of Tartu is buzzing with anticipation. Tomorrow marks the commencement of the oiAcademy's Tartu pilot program, a groundbreaking initiative designed to foster open innovation and entrepreneurial skills among its participants.

The competition for the scholarship established by the rectors of the University of Tartu, University of Latvia and Vilnius University has started again to promote the teaching and learning of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages and cultures.

On 16 October, the first cooperation seminar of Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu’s consortium of the Just Transition Fund was held at the Virumaa College of the Tallinn University of Technology. The event brought together 22 research teams whose work will help develop technologies and monitor societal transition in the Ida-Viru region over the next six years.

On 27 October, the University of Tartu senate decided to award the Johan Skytte medal to Margit Sutrop, member of the Riigikogu and Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu. The highest award granted to university members, the University of Tartu Grand Medal, is given to two university researchers for services of particular value. Also, the recipients of the University of Tartu Star of Appreciation, Medal, Badge of Distinction and the decoration “100 Semesters at the University of Tartu” have been selected.

The university will use the survey to find out what kind of mobility Estonia's largest university brings about and what attitudes staff and students hold towards sustainable mobility.

The Police and Border Guard announced at 9:15 that dozens of Estonian institutions, including schools and kindergartens, received a bomb threat by email in Russian tonight.

Startup Labi poolt äriideede arendusprogramm StarterTartu on suunatud üliõpilastele ja kõikidele õppuritele, kes soovivad õppida ideearendusprotsessi ning katsetada oma idee elujõudu praktikas.

The University of Bordeaux is organising virtual intercultural exchanges, which are aimed to promote the participants’ communication skills and are open to students of all the ENLIGHT universities.

Margit Keller will assume the office of the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences on 1 January 2024.

The three-minute thesis competition for University of Tartu doctoral students brought together young researchers of many disciplines.

The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?

On 12 September, the commission formed for the dean elections registered the dean candidates of the university’s four faculties.

All university members are invited to nominate candidates who deserve to be awarded the university’s honorary decoration for their outstanding achievements.