Alumni get-together “Back to the university”

The University of Tartu will organise its alumni get-together with the slogan “Back to the university” on 18 May 2024.

While you cannot turn back the clock, it is possible to travel back to the past days through memories and reminiscences. It is like time travel to the years spent at the alma mater. To the days full of endless lectures and seminars. To the sleepless nights when you had to prepare for the exams, for writing and defending the thesis. To student days packed with wild and funny events or to nights spent in the parks and bars of the city.  Come and reminisce about all these moments, your fellow students, the most colourful professors, and what they said. Find your study building and the lecture halls you know, and remember what it was like to be a student. Come back to the university. 

Strangely, coming back can also mean moving forward. That’s right – back is forward. How so, you ask. But that’s the way it is when you come back to the university to continue your studies here. Find a continuing education course. Come and earn another degree in a completely new specialisation, or step up the degree you have. Expand your world and social circle even further. The social network you build at the university is what will last. Who knows, you might even be able to change the world by returning to the university as a mentor, a visiting lecturer, a scholarship initiator or a donor. Or, as an inspiring role model, sharing with today’s students, tomorrow’s world-changers, the story of what university has given you and how you have put your education into practice. Come and change the tomorrows that lie ahead. 

Just think – time in the entire city once used to run according to the clock of the University of Tartu. Today, the clock in the Town Hall tower ticks in its own way, but students’ life here will always follow the rhythm of the university’s clock. 

Come back to the university and see that alma mater’s spirit and soul are in long-past yesterdays, the present moments and the tomorrows yet to come. The bond with your alma mater can never be broken.

During the day of the reunion, our alumni can meet lecturers and former fellow students, visit familiar study buildings and lecture halls, take part in the university debates at Tartu [pre]opinion Festival, a sing-along and the grand party in the university’s Sports Hall in the evening. We welcome all members of the alumni family who feel a bond with their alma mater and wish to look back on their student years together with their former classmates. All other friends of the University of Tartu are also welcome. 

Early-bird Tiksu* tickets at the special rate of 25 euros are available until the end of January. By purchasing a ticket, you support the alumni get-together and get access to the party headlined by 2 Quick Start. Tickets are available in Piletitasku. 

BUY TICKETS

The university invites all alumni to donate to the University of Tartu Seventh Pillar Fund, which aims to support students in their studies and research. When the fund was established, it was named by the then patron of the University of Tartu Foundation Lennart Meri, who referred to the seventh pillar as the pillar of wisdom. Read more and donate on the website of the foundation. 

More information about the event is shared on the university’s website, Facebook page and Instagram.  

Note! The alumni get-together programme is updated on an ongoing basis, and the organisers reserve the right to make changes to it. 

*Tickets are timestamped by Tiksu, the University of Tartu mascot. Legend has it that Tiksu hatched one early morning in 2021 right at the moment of sunrise, which gave it an extraordinary thirst for learning. Read more about Tiksu: ut.ee/en/tiksu.