Professor Karl Pajusalu wins the Latvian and Estonian Language Promotion Award

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna and Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže announced the winner of the Latvian and Estonian Language Promotion Award in Cēsis, Latvia on July 5th.
08.07.2024

Przemysław Podleśny: the joy of studying in the city and country of opportunities

Przemysław Podleśny, a graduate of the international curriculum Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages, gave a speech in Estonian at the master's graduation ceremony.
09.07.2024

Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics

Research in the Institute covers a broad range of linguistic topics, focusing on Estonian and other Finno-Ugric languages but also including other languages. We teach Estonian and several other Finno-Ugric languages. The quality of our linguistic research and teaching is evident from our placement in the top quarter of the best 1000 universities in the world in the field of linguistics (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021). Our researchers investigate aspects of morphosyntax, semantics and phonetics as well as sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics.

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Our institute has 4 departments, 2 laboratories and 3 centers, including 1 interdisciplinary consortium. The institute employs 101 people, including 6 professors, 13 associate professors, 14 lecturers, 21 researchers, 3 junior lecturer, 28 junior researchers and 2 teachers. The institute has 6 programs, including 1 Bachelor's program, 4 Master's programs and 1 Doctoral degree program. There are 225 students, including 90 in Bachelor's studies, 97 in Master's studies and 38 in Doctoral studies. There are 16% or 37 foreign students in the institute.

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The institute's autumn party will take place on September 13th at 6:00 PM at the Tartu German Cultural Institute, Kastani 1.
09.09.2024
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Nominations can be submitted via the web form until 20 September.
04.09.2024
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Until 31 October, nominations can be submitted for the “Contribution to Estonian National Identity” award.
04.09.2024
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The mentoring programme will be held again this autumn semester, welcoming students, alumni and university staff to apply until 23 September.
26.08.2024