On 29 October, the University of Tartu and the Estonian National Museum signed a framework agreement for industrial doctorate studies to support the education of future researchers for the museum and intensify cooperation between the two institutions.
The Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics of the University of Tartu has been granted funding from the European Commission through the Horizon Europe ERA-Chair instrument to launch the Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) starting in March 2025.
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.
Ilona Tragel was elected as the Professor of Language Awareness and Estonian Language Teaching, and Virve Vihman was promoted to the position of Professor of Psycholinguistics.
Abstract submission for the 14th International Congress of Finno-Ugric Studies (CIFU XIV) Symposia and the General Session is now open. The congress will take place in Tartu, August 18–23, 2025.
Birute Klaas-Lang was elected as the academy research professor in Estonian language and its teaching and Meelis Kull as the academy research professor in artificial intelligence.
The results of the QS World University Rankings by Subject have just been published, where Linguistics achieved a particularly outstanding result among the fields of research at the University of Tartu.