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March 2024.

The University of Tartu will organise its alumni get-together with the slogan “Back to the university” on 18 May 2024. Early-bird tickets at special rates are available from 1 December.

On December 13 at 12 TÜ Senat Hall

11. detsember kell 15:00, TÜ senati saal (Ülikooli 18).

The University of Tartu is inviting future international students to come student shadowing and live one day as a university student.

The main objective of the project is to promote cultural tourism in a creative way that stimulates the sustainable development of remote rural areas, taking into account local capacities, resources and specificities.

The UNESCO Chair participated in the consortium meeting of the language revitalization project RISE UP in Spain

Invitation to the webinar "A Resource and a Source for Change? Living heritage and actions for sustainable development." 21 November 2023

On 11 December at 11 Maili Pilt will defend her doctoral thesis

Have you considered continuing your studies here after you graduate from your home university? We invite you to discover what the Master’s programmes in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities have to offer.

On 29 November at 12 Ülikooli 18

Tartu Ülikooli personaliosakond on uuendanud võrdse kohtlemise temaatikat käsitlevat veebilehte.

Richard F. Gombrich, Professor Emeritus of the University of Oxford, will be the main speaker of the lecture series.

The competition for the scholarship established by the rectors of the University of Tartu, University of Latvia and Vilnius University has started again to promote the teaching and learning of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages and cultures.

On 27 October, the University of Tartu senate decided to award the Johan Skytte medal to Margit Sutrop, member of the Riigikogu and Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu. The highest award granted to university members, the University of Tartu Grand Medal, is given to two university researchers for services of particular value. Also, the recipients of the University of Tartu Star of Appreciation, Medal, Badge of Distinction and the decoration “100 Semesters at the University of Tartu” have been selected.

The university will use the survey to find out what kind of mobility Estonia's largest university brings about and what attitudes staff and students hold towards sustainable mobility.

The University of Tartu and the Blood Centre of Tartu University Hospital invite university members to the Blood Donor Day in the Delta Centre on 2 November, from 11:00 to 15:00.

On 25 October, the 391st anniversary of the founding of the University of Tartu is celebrated. There will be two lectures, flowers will be laid at memorials and a concert held to mark this occasion.

Professor emeritus Gebhard Josef Selz of the University of Vienna will visit the University of Tartu and its Centre for Oriental Studies from 19 to 21 October.

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