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University of Tartu and AS Graanul Invest signed a framework agreement last week which provides for research and development cooperation to develop wood and biomass valorisation technology in Estonia. According to the five-year agreement, the parties plan to conduct joint research studies and develop training programmes. Graanul Invest is also willing to contribute to doctoral studies in this area at the University of Tartu.

On Friday, 24 August 2018 the inaugural ceremony of the Rector of the University of Tartu Professor Toomas Asser was held in the University Assembly Hall. Programme:

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The first global study of soil genomics revealed a battle right under our feet. The clash between fungi and bacteria and research into this topic may benefit both farmers and the pharmaceutical industry. The microscopic fungi that inhabit soil are essential for plant growth, but they are constantly at war with bacteria in order to survive. The discovery was made by an international research team led by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Tartu in Estonia.

The council of Tartu University Hospital elected Priit Eelmäe, the current chairman of the board at Haapsalu Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, to take over as director of the university hospital for a five-year term. Eelmäe graduated from the University of Tartu in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports sciences. In 1997, he defended his master's thesis in physical therapy at the same university.

Estonian researchers have developed an innovative method of medical genetics that will enable non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to be carried out soon in Estonia. NIPT is like an insurance policy, providing reliable genetic testing about fetal chromosomal health already at an early phase of pregnancy. An advanced genetic testing laboratory location on site strengthens the diagnostics sector in Estonia.

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The members of the “conect4children” (c4c) initiative announced the start of a large collaborative paediatric network that will facilitate the development of new drugs and other therapies for the entire paediatric population in Europe.

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As of 1 September 2018, the University of Tartu will pay doctoral students a performance stipend of 400 euros per month. The stipend will be paid in addition to the doctoral allowance that is paid from the state budget, and it aims to ensure that doctoral students whose progress has been positively reviewed will receive 1060 euros per month in the 2018/2019 academic year.

The University of Tartu team ResDec received a second place at the pitching competition of the international business development programme Network Globally, Act Locally (NGAL®) and award of $ 2,500.

The U4 universities (Ghent University, the University of Göttingen, the University of Groningen and Uppsala University) have joined forces with the University of Tartu to prepare an application for the European University project announced by the EU to strengthen Erasmus+ activities.

This year, an exclusive business development program NGAL® (Network Globally, Act Locally) takes place from 4th to 15th June, engaging five universities from USA and Estonia. The program starts with the boot camp at UT IdeaLab and ends with a launch-camp in Nebraska, USA. University of Tartu will be represented by two teams: STARTER program graduate CarZam and the rEstFind.

The UT Asian Centre together with the UT International Summer University organize a summer program titled Asia and the Middle-East: Differences and Commonalities this August (13-24.08.18).

UT scientists are developing medicines suitable for newborns and young children and studying the suitability of existing drugs because there is a great need for pharmaceutical preparations meant for young patients. Currently, children often need to use adult medicines that have been adapted for them but which may also contain excipients unsuitable for children.

Rector’s Office of the University of Tartu and the management board of the University of Tartu Academic Sports Club have discussed the future of the basketball club and decided to discontinue the activities of the team, which so far comprised professional players. To ensure the sustainable and competitive development of basketball at the university, the UT basketball team will henceforth rely on student sports and, above all, local young players.

At the award ceremony of the L’Oreal Fellowship Programme for Women in Science, held at the Latvian Academy of Sciences in Riga on 5 June, five laureates of the fellowship were announced. The only Estonian to receive the 6000-euro fellowship was Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Karin Kogermann of the University of Tartu Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Pharmacy. In her research, Kogermann focuses on enhancing the treatment of chronic wounds by designing and making smart nanofibre-based wound dressings.

New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America was maintained for millennia before mixing again before or during the expansion of humans into the southern continent. Recent research has suggested that the first people to enter the Americas split into two ancestral branches, the northern and southern, and that the “southern branch” gave rise to all populations in Central and South America. Now, a study shows for the first time that, deep in their genetic history, the majority – if not all – of

On 21 May, a seminar about creative teaching methods took place in Kiev, in the Ukrainian Ministry of Science and Education. About 100 lecturers and educators across Ukraine had come to participate in the workshop organised by UT IdeaLab in collaboration with Ukrainian partner organisation “Platform for Innovative Partnership”. On the next day (22nd of May) Yep!STARTER business development programme students presented their semester-long work and competed for the opportunity to pitch at sTARTUp Day, business festival in Tartu.