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Over the next six years, researchers from the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology will study how Ida-Viru County transitions to a more sustainable economic model, what the region can evolve into, and how local decision-makers could best guide the transition.

From 29 January to 2 February, the international winter school "Survivance and Survival:  Theory and Method" will focus on the question of the survival of humanity by looking at it from the perspective of the humanities.

The Digital Cleanup Week will take place at the University of Tartu for the fourth time from 22 to 26 January.

The University of Tartu’s alumni get-together “Back to the university” on 18 May will feature 2 Quick Start, Justament, the Popsid brass band and DJ Kalev K as performers. The party hosts will be Andres Dvinjaninov and Saara Pius.

Welcome to the online info session of the two largest and most renowned universities in Estonia: Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and the University of Tartu! 

Bienvenidos a la sesión informativa en línea de las dos universidades más grandes y reconocidas de Estonia: la Universidad Tecnológica de Tallin (TalTech) y la Universidad de Tartu.

Rector Toomas Asser's address to the university family.

Updated 18.01 10:00. The Estonian Internal Security Service has notified the university that they have started an investigation against Professor of International Political Theory Viacheslav Morozov, who is suspected of action against the Republic of Estonia. The employment relationship has been terminated the with him.

Monitoring of the genetic diversity of wild species in Europe is inadequate and fragmented, according to an international study involving the University of Tartu published on 15 January.

Webinar about admissions to International Law and Human Rights programme will take place online in Zoom on 18 January at 14:00 (GMT+2).

On 29 January at 15:00 Vladyslav Soloviov will defend his doctoral thesis “The role of culture for innovative processes“

In the upcoming spring semester, for the first time, an elective course titled “Research based Entrepreneurship” will be offered specifically for doctoral students. The course aims to provide doctoral students with basic knowledge of entrepreneurship. Doctoral students from all programmes are welcome, regardless of whether they have a specific idea to focus on for business development during the course or not.

The Ministry of Education and Research has confirmed the University of Tartu as the project leader of the doctoral school for the next six years.

The Council of the Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu re-elected Professor Mait Metspalu as the institute's director for 2024–2026.

Doctoral defence: Eva-Liisa Roht-Yilmaz "Converting identities and moralities: pentecostal christianity among the Roma in Estonia and Latvia".

On 9 February at 10:15 Sanni Maria Aurora Färkkilä will defend her doctoral thesis “Methods for studying plant-fungal interactions – reflecting on the old, the new and the upcoming”.

Last academic year, the Clinical Nutrition curriculum was opened at the University of Tartu – the only one of its kind in the European Union.

Astronomers at the University of Tartu Observatory figured out how to measure the speed of dark matter.

The Estonian Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, led by the University of Tartu’s Institute of Computer Science, will address scientific issues of importance to Estonia. The government will support the centre of excellence with 7 million euros over seven years. 

Over the next seven years, the government will fund ten centres of excellence addressing scientific issues of importance to Estonia. The University of Tartu has tight connections with all of them.