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Among others, the University of Tartu geologists, in cooperation with the Estonian Geological Survey, are mapping the reserves of critical metals in the crystalline basement.

Estonian-Ukrainian cooperation project ended with an online Demo Day, where teams of Ukrainian university lecturers presented the business ideas they had developed over the previous four months.

Read the programme of the students’ Spring Festival on studentdays.ee.

Estonian Microbiome Project, using electronic health data from more than 2500 biobank participants finds long-term antibiotic usage, independent from recent administration, has an impact on the microbiome, partly explaining the common bacterial signatures overlapping between diseases.

Rector of the University of Tartu, Professor Toomas Asser said that universities cannot take on additional obligations for the next three years without knowing whether the government provides the necessary funding to meet these obligations.

The Deep Transitions research group of the University of Tartu looked at the fundamental ideas, institutions and practices of modern industrial societies –– termed as industrial modernity –– during the past 120 years. Researchers identified two main problems that feed the environmental crisis.

On 15 December, authors of the best student papers of 2021 were awarded at the Estonian Academy of Sciences.