Badge of Distinction

The University of Tartu Badge of Distinction is awarded for outstanding job achievements or a significant contribution to the activities of the university. The Badge of Distinction was founded in 2003. 

Medal

The University of Tartu Medal is awarded for long-term substantial contribution to the development of the University of Tartu. The Medal was founded in 1996. Its name until 2020 was the University of Tartu Medal.  All persons who were awarded the Medal before 2020 have the right to rece...

Maido Merisalu, Mart Noorma and Alvo Aabloo win education awards

On October 7 2017, the Ministry of Education and Research hosted the ‘Estonia Learns and Thanks’ gala to acknowledge educational workers and supporters. The title awarded to faculty members went to the University of Tartu for the third year in a row, with the winner being Maido Merisalu,...

Investigating Identities in Academia: An International Interdisciplinary Workshop May 17

Organised by the Chair of Philosophy of Science (University of Tartu, Estonia), in co-operation with the Centre of Gender Studies, (University of Uppsala, Sweden), and Centre for Ethics (University of Tartu, Estonia) Date: Friday, May 17, 2013, 10.00-18.00 Venue: Institute of Philosophy...

E-learning quality

An e-course is a systematic, comprehensive set of learning materials, learning activities and learning guides that supports the partial or entire implementation of the learning process online. A high-quality e-course is important and necessary for different target groups, all of whom hav...

Publications

Our academic staff has written more than a hundred legal monographs, textbooks and teaching aids and many scientific commentaries on how to understand and implement various legal acts. Here we have collected publications that our academic staff has written in foreign languages. For publ...

UT aims to improve teaching quality by wording best practice in teaching

Good teaching is of great importance at the University of Tartu. As proof of this, the University of Tartu will compose a document on the best practice in teaching, being the first Estonian university to do so. How to teach well and what the principles of good teaching should be was the...

International Symposium "Traditional and Literary Epics of the World: Textuality, Authorship, Identity. The Kalevipoeg 150", Tartu, November 29-30, 2011

Venue: University of Tartu History Museum (Toome Hill, Lossi 25) Organisers: The Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, the Estonian Literary Museum and the Institute for Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu.   Tuesday 29.11.2011 10.15–10.30 Symposium opening (Universit...

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The recipients of the 2016 good teaching grant have been announced

The academic affairs committee of the University of Tartu has decided the recipients of the 2016 good teaching grant funded by the development fund. The programme manager of the European Union – Russia Studies and European Studies MA programmes and lecturer at the Johan Skytte Institute ...