On Monday, 9 September, Orest Chemerys, Rector of Lviv National Medical University named after Danylo Halytsky visited Tartu and the University of Tartu, accompanied by the Ukrainian Ambassador Maksym Kononenko.
At the meeting with the management of the Faculty of Medicine, opportunities for cooperation between the University of Tartu and Lviv National Medical University were discussed. Afterwards, rector Chemerys and ambassador Kononenko were given a tour of the Tartu University Hospital. The guests also met Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas.
Lviv National Medical University is one of the oldest and largest medical education institutions in Ukraine. The University of Tartu cooperates closely with universities in Ukraine: for example, it has an Erasmus cooperation agreement with 20 Ukrainian universities.