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Today, on 1 December, the University of Tartu celebrates the 104th anniversary of the opening of the Estonian-language university. At the anniversary ceremony, Rector Professor Toomas Asser announced this year’s recipient of the “Contribution to Estonian National Identity” award – the acclaimed director, teacher and founder of modern dramaturgy Merle Karusoo.

Ceremony marking the 104th anniversary of Estonia’s national university in the UT assembly hall on 1 December 2023.

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.

On 28 November, the Ambassador of France to Estonia, His Excellency Emmanuel Mignot, visited the University of Tartu.

The University of Tartu found recognition in the “Heartfelt Euro Deed” competition for building the Delta Centre, which was elected among the top 30 projects. The construction of the Children’s Clinic of the Tartu University Hospital was the winner of the competition.

The Fair Transition Fund’s consortium of Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu will implement 22 research projects in Ida-Viru County over the next six years to support socioeconomic change in the region and meet the development needs of companies.

A bibliometric analysis published in 2014 estimated that published scientific output doubles every nine years.

Representatives of ENLIGHT universities met from 22 to 24 November in Uppsala to discuss the activities for the next ENLIGHT project period.

Next year, we will celebrate 20 years since Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined the European Union. Having now experienced a global pandemic, two financial crises and the effects of unfiltered globalisation, unprecedented movements of peoples across continents, and the start of the war ravaging Ukraine, we can say that today's world is more unpredictable and chaotic than 20 years ago.

On 24 November, at 16:00, Rector Toomas Asser presented the university’s honorary decorations at the ceremony in the assembly hall.

On 22 November, Canada’s first ambassador to Estonia, His Excellency Laird Hindle paid his first visit to the University of Tartu and met with the rector.

Estonian Academy of Sciences Foundation awarded its scholarships for 2024 to Ülo Reimaa, a Research Fellow in Algebra at the University of Tartu Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and Angela Peeb, a doctoral student in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Tartu.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Evelyn Uuemaa, Professor of Geoinformatics at the University of Tartu, the Consolidator Grant.

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

The University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy is launching a one-year English-language master's programme, Creative Project Management, in 2024. The new curriculum is aimed at current and future talents in the creative field.

Postponing work is perfectly human, but engaging in substitute activities at the expense of an important task can end up costing you dearly.

Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world's first vaccine against the chikungunya virus – Ixchiq. The vaccine candidate has been designed and manufactured at the University of Tartu. The human clinical trials were conducted by the biotechnology company Valneva Austria GmbH.

The UNESCO General Conference, which gathered in Paris on 16 November, elected Estonia to the council of a programme supporting free, independent and pluralistic media in developing countries. Estonia will be represented in the council by Ragne Kõuts-Klemm, Associate Professor in Sociology of Journalism and Head of the Institute of Social Studies of the University of Tartu.

At the International Sport and Culture Association’s annual MOVE congress on 15–17 November, the Move Lab of the Institute of Sports Science and Physiotherapy, with its Schools in Motion programme, was selected as the winner in the health-promoting schools category.

Toomas Plank to continue as Director of the Institute of Physics