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On 26 August, at 14:15 Liis Ermus will defend her doctoral thesis "The phonetic variation of plosives in Estonian".

The international geoinformatics conference “Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Europe 2024” will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from 1 to 7 July.

ENLIGHT is a network of ten European universities created in 2020. Promoting equitable quality of life, sustainability and global engagement through higher education transformation, the network offers various opportunities for students, professors, researchers, and staff members. The project focuses on six cross-cutting challenge domains: health and wellbeing, digitalisation, climate change, energy and circular economy, equity, and culture and creativity.

Karl Kruusamäe is fascinated by science at the frontiers of human knowledge: anything is possible. In his work, he is committed to developing collaboration between humans and robotics.

On 11 June, the Estonian Biobank, University of Tartu, launched the portal MinuGeenivaramu.

Triinu Soomere defends PhD thesis „Doctoral students’ perspectives on learning about teaching in the higher education context“

From June 11 to 14, the international conference and doctoral school Mobile Tartu 2024 will take place in Tartu.

Researchers need Widening to offer more than just networking.

Speakers from each field are invited to give engaging presentations in Estonian or English, outlining the importance and results of their research.

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 13 June at 12:00 Valentina Punzi will defend her doctoral thesis "Making (hi)stories in Amdo: voices, genres, and authorities".

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"

On 17 June at 10:15 Iris Reinula will defend her doctoral thesis "Genetic variation of grassland plants in changing landscapes".

On June 5th at 13:15 Natàlia Pujol Gualdo will defend her doctoral thesis "Decoding genetic associations of female reproductive health traits".

The industrial doctorate offers a unique opportunity for companies, universities and doctoral students to work together.

Paris Pin-Yu Chen: Thinking Globally about Race and Eugenics in Interwar Estonia

In the coming academic year, singer, pianist and composer Kadri Voorand will become the new Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Tartu, with a lecture course focusing on life-changing creation. She will be succeeded by Peeter Jalakas, former professor and director, who will participate in a public discussion titled “Feeling and meaning” in the attic hall of Tartu Cathedral on the evening of 23 May.

The Young Scientist Award was given to Associate Professor in Genetics Hedvig Tamman and the Young IT Scientist Award to Head of Applied Natural Language Processing Liisa Rätsep.

Teaching staff and students of the University of Tartu are encouraged to apply to participate in the ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference 2024 held in Tartu from 7 to 9 October. The central theme of this year’s conference is creativity and innovation in higher education.

Andres Metspalu, Professor of Genomics and Biobanking and Professor of Biotechnology was elected a member of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology section of Academia Europaea.