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Maaja Vadi, Professor of Management at the University of Tartu, has established the Maaja Vadi Family History Scholarship at the University of Tartu Foundation to support university staff and students in researching and recording their family history, genealogy or the activities of their predecessors, and sharing the results.

On 22 January, Tartu city council awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Tartu to Professor emerita Ene Ergma and Professor Aare Märtson, Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Tartu Institute of Clinical Medicine.

The University of Tartu is the first university in Estonia to receive certification confirming compliance with the international information security standard ISO/IEC 27001:2022. This shows that the university manages the information in its possession in a systematic, transparent and risk-aware manner.

On 2 February, IT Office will delete Teams and SharePoint groups without an owner. Before this, automatically selected group members will receive a notification email with instructions on how to proceed.

It has been a busy year at the University of Tartu: we celebrated the 106th anniversary of Estonia’s national university, our researchers and students received recognition, the number of admission applications increased at every level of study, and a new strategic plan was adopted.

We wish our university community and friends a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year!

Vibe coding enables creating websites and apps without writing code, using AI. A hands-on workshop shows how an idea quickly becomes a working digital solution.

On 11 December, the University of Tartu and OÜ Vanalinna Ehitus signed the contract for the reconstruction, extension and furnishing of the Tallinn building of the University of Tartu.

In the 14th survey on Estonia’s most attractive employers by CV Keskus, the University of Tartu was chosen as the most desirable employer in the field of education.

At its meeting on 2 December, the council of the University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics elected Associate Professor of General Linguistics Ann Veismann as the new head of the institute.