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CERN has admitted Estonia as its full member. For the University of Tartu, this means expanding its existing research, education and business collaboration opportunities.

In the 2024/2025 academic year, nearly 500 degree-seeking students and 300 international visiting students will start their studies in foreign-language curricula at the University of Tartu.

Learning Estonian can be a rewarding and challenging experience. We sat down for an episode of Tiksu to UniTartu podcast with two teachers and an international student to discuss learning Estonian. 

The mentoring programme will be held again this autumn semester, welcoming students, alumni and university staff to apply until 23 September.

The registration for three-minute thesis competition ends on 19 September.

On 4 September at 16:15, Andero Uusberg will give his inaugural lecture “Feeling the Sense of Thought” in the assembly hall of the University of Tartu.

On 5 September, one of the world’s leading moral philosophers, Professor Jeff McMahan from the University of Oxford, will give a public lecture on the ethics of killing and just war theory. His lecture marks the publication of a special issue of a philosophy journal focused on the Russia-Ukraine war. The event will be held from 16:00 to 18:00 in White Hall at the University of Tartu Museum.

For the second year in a row, volunteers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities are organising an eco-friendly fair that offers everything sustainable. This enables reusing a wide range of consumer goods in addition to delighting fairgoers with farm, garden and forest products. The fair will take place in the courtyard of Philosophicum on 3 September at 12:00–16:00. You can register to sell your goods until 30 August.

Starting from 16 August, all staff and students of the university will be able to test the virtual assistant on the University of Tartu IT wiki page, which will provide support in solving IT problems based on existing guides. The trial period will last a couple of months, during which the Information Technology Office will be able to assess the quality of the virtual assistant service.

On Friday, 23 August, at 17:00, the art exhibition “Missing” will open at the Tartu Art House, displaying contemporary artworks made from 40-million-year-old bones.

Forte rubriigi „Tunne teadlast“ selles osas tutvustab end Tartu ülikooli kliinilise geneetika kaasprofessor Sander Pajusalu, kes uurib geenimutatsioonide koosesinemise mõju haigestumisele.

On 26 August.

International students in Tartu can choose between university dorms or private accommodation based on budget and preferences. Cody and Elfi discuss their experiences on the Tiksu to UniTartu podcast.

An international team of researchers and entrepreneurs, led by the Uni of Tartu, is starting to develop AI-based solutions that will enable self-driving heavy vehicles to operate safely in difficult conditions.

The Institute of Genomics of the University of Tartu and the Estonian Genome Foundation cordially invite you to The 23rd International Gene Forum 2024 on September 24th – 25th, 2024.

On September 9 at 9:15 Siqiao Liu will defend her doctoral thesis “The effect of anthropogenic disturbance on soil fungal communities”.

On September 6 at 14:15 Slendy Julieth Rodríguez Alarcón will defend her doctoral thesis “Intraspecific trait diversity in plants: characterizing effects of trait variation on community assembly and ecosystem functioning”.

The opening ceremony of the 2024/2025 academic year of the University of Tartu takes place on Monday, 2 September at 10:00 in front of the university's main building.

University of Tartu plant biologists show that in the future, it would be better to prefer plants with fewer stomata, as they grow faster.

The University of Tartu received the silver level of the award "Supporter of defenders of the state" from the Ministry of Defence for its outstanding contribution to the support of Estonian defenders of the state.