Information regarding the war against Ukraine

• The university offers its members full support during the challenging time. In cooperation with the Institute of Psychology and master's students in Psychology, the university will provide both individual and group counselling to international students online.

• Recommendations and support to students: students of the University of Tartu can seek psychological support from the university's Counselling Centre. Please register using this webform.

• University staff can get psychological support from staff Counsellor-Chaplain Tõnu Lehtsaar at tonu.lehtsaar@ut.ee. You may contact him in Estonian, English and Russian.

• We are a large university family and so there may be people around us who are very closely and personally affected by what has happened. In this situation, one of the ways in which each of us can help is to notice another person's concern and offer first psychological support.

The university keeps looking for more counselling opportunities, so this list will be updated accordingly.

The university allows Ukrainian students to study without paying the tuition fee in the spring semester.

The senate created the possibility for Ukrainian students to apply for a need-based special allowance in 2022.     

The university has established a scholarship fund to collect and channel donations to support Ukrainian students' studies at the University of Tartu. Ukrainian students can apply for the scholarship until 15 March. 

The university has established a scholarship fund to collect and channel donations to support Ukrainian students' studies at the University of Tartu. We invite the entire university family to donate to the University of Tartu scholarship fund for Ukrainian students and share the word about the fund. 

Estonian universities decided to halt cooperation with Russian and Belarusian universities. The decision concerns institutional cooperation between universities. The International Cooperation and Protocol Office will compile information on ongoing cooperation projects and organise the informing of partner universities.    

As of 7 March 2022, University of Tartu has decided that citizens of Russian Federation and Belarus can submit applications for first and second level programmes offered in the academic year 2022/2023 only if they hold a residence permit or long-term visa of the European Union or are currently studying in Estonia.

To support Ukrainian citizens' access to higher education, the university extends the period of admission to non-Estonian-taught curricula for Ukrainian citizens. The application deadline for Ukrainian citizens for the first and second level of study (excluding Medicine and Excellence in Analytical Chemistry) will be extended to 1 June.

In addition, Ukrainian citizens will be exempt from the application fee.

In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Research, the university will create additional tuition-waiver student places for Ukrainian citizens. For the 2022/2023 academic year, the university is ready to create up to 250 additional tuition-waiver student places for Ukrainian students. More information will be published shortly.

If you want to apply for an academic position at the University of Tartu, please write to ukraine@ut.ee.

• Academic job opportunities at European research institutions
• All Estonian job opportunities, incl. support staff positions
• Estonian Labour Inspectorate information sheets for Ukrainians arriving from Ukraine

Please contact first the Tartu Welcome Centre for assistance with administrative formalities.

• University of Tartu Academic Sports club offers free sporting activities for Ukrainian children and adults.
• The City of Tartu provides practical guidance for people arriving from Ukraine.

Victims of war can be supported through a number of initiatives.

• University is gathering information about people who are willing to provide counselling and contribute to the organisation of counselling. Sign up using the registration form by 3 March 16:00.
   
• Collecting humanitarian aid.

  • On 26 February, the University of Tartu Student Union opened a collection point for humanitarian aid at its Tartu office (Ülikooli 18b, Tartu). 

  • On February 28, the University of Tartu Pärnu College, in cooperation with the City of Pärnu and the Estonian Red Cross, opened a collection point for humanitarian aid at Pärnu College (Ringi 35, Pärnu).

  • Through Estonian Refugee Aid you can support the provision of humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

• Making donations.

  • The University of Tartu scholarship fund collects donations to support the studies of Ukrainian students.

  • At ukrainaheaks.ee you can make a donation to help Ukrainians.

  • On the page Come Back Alive you can support the Ukrainian army.

  • On the page Voices of Children you can support affected children.

Please send media enquiries to avalik@ut.ee.

• The University of Tartu Senate’s address to the people of Ukraine
• Antiwar declaration (in Russian) from the participants of the international congress "Juri Lotman's semiosphere"
• An appeal by The Guild network to European governments and the European Union  
• A statement by the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies 
• Rector Toomas Asser's address to the Ukrainian members of the university and the entire university family
• Estonian universities decided to halt cooperation with Russian and Belarusian universities. 

• A list of reliable information channels compiled by researchers of the University of Tartu Institute of Social Sciences