The Estonian solar car team Solaride won third place in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia at the end of October and got a special award for best performance in technical inspection.
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 December 15th Ling Yan will defend a thesis "Stress-associated immune mechanisms of schizophrenia: the importance of region-specific microglia-neurovascular interaction".
From 1 to 5 October 2024, Viljandi is organizing the Viljandi Heritage Festival which belongs to the Tartu 2024 program, taking place at the Estonian Traditional Music Centre and its surroundings.
On 14. November at 10:15, Oecologicum (J. Liivi 2) room 127 Robin Gielen will defend his doctoral thesis "Diversity and ecological role of pathogenic fungi in insect populations"