The University of Tartu spin-off GaltTec OÜ received a 100,000-euro investment in the pitching competition at the international startup and technology conference Latitude59.
On 29 May, the Estonian Human Rights Centre presented the "Respecting differences" label to the University of Tartu for the second time at the joint building of ministries in Tallinn.
At the invitation of President Alar Karis, President of Finland Alexander Stubb and his wife Suzanne Innes-Stubb paid their first state visit to Estonia from 27 to 29 May. They also visited Tartu and the University of Tartu, where the Finnish president presented the decoration of the Order of the White Rose of Finland to Rector Toomas Asser.
President of Finland Alexander Stubb underlined that we are standing on the threshold of a new era in which a value-based, realistic perception of the world, compromise and cooperation play the key role in shaping the future world order.
Doctoral defence: Peeter Kenkmann "Development of the Authoritarian Regime in Estonia between 1934 and 1940: Roles of the Constitution and the State of Emergency"
On 10 June at 10:00 Nguyen Hoang Quan Tran will defend his doctoral thesis "Perception of organisational culture in terms of task and relationship orientations in Vietnam"
Collaboration between computer scientists at the University of Tartu in the development of an app for cancer diagnosis will be boosted through the university's investment company UniTartu Ventures.
According to the latest census, 243 languages are spoken as mother tongues in Estonia, so we have a lot of people who speak Estonian as a second language.
On 18 May, thousands of University of Tartu alumni came together again in the student city after five years. The alumni get-together "Back to the university" included lectures and tours of institutes across the city, a sing-along and welcome speeches in front of the main building, a procession, and a grand party in the sports hall.
The Estonian Cooperation Assembly elected Eneli Kindsiko as the editor-in-chief of the Estonian Human Development Report (EIA), to be published in 2026.
On 31 May, at 10:15 Maarja Jõeloo will defend her doctoral thesis "Advances in microarray-based copy number variation discovery and phenotypic associations".