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In the coming years, the University of Tartu will focus on developing practical solutions for promoting equal treatment to maintain and strengthen a safe learning and working environment for the entire university community. Planned activities include preventing sexual harassment and developing a system to handle such cases. An important basis for this work is the new gender equality plan for 2026–2030.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. Anna Aleksandra Bober from Poland wrote in Estonian about why she wanted to come to Tartu to learn Estonian.

The committee formed by the University of Tartu Student Union chose the recipients of the teaching staff of the year 2025 awards from among 100 nominees.

A record number of university members took part in the Digital Cleanup Month 2026. This shows that conscious digital hygiene has become a natural part of everyday work.

University of Tartu students can submit applications to study abroad under the Erasmus+ programme in the 2026/2027 academic year until 9 March 2026.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. August Blackham from the USA wrote in Estonian about why he wanted to come to Tartu to learn Estonian.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. Brian Souders from the USA wrote in Estonian about why he wanted to come to Tartu to learn Estonian.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. CC Conway from the USA wrote in Estonian about why they wanted to come to Tartu

Lõpuaktused humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkonnas aastal 2025/2026.

Preliminary results of the International Student Barometer (ISB) show that international students are satisfied with their studies at the University of Tartu. They highlight strong academic quality, supportive learning conditions and the city of Tartu as an excellent living environment.

From 9 to 15 February, the Women in Science theme week was held at the University of Tartu to highlight the role of women and girls in science, break gender stereotypes and encourage women to pursue careers in science.

On January 29th 2026 at 13:45 Anna Branets will defend her doctoral thesis „Mediated Receptive Multilingualism: Factors of Success in Facilitation of Language Learning".

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE) results were published recently, in which the field of humanities and arts is once again the highest among university fields and the entire Baltic countries.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Estonia has been a leader in providing refuge to the Ukrainian people. At the start of the war, Estonia accepted the most Ukrainians per capita of any country in the world, and it remains among the top three, behind Czechia and Poland. There are now approximately 60,000 Ukrainians in Estonia, representing about 4.4% of the population. Three-quarters of these Ukrainians have arrived since 2022. These individuals must negotiate how to maintain their cultural identity while integrating and building new lives abroad.

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers numerous optional courses for the spring semester, available to both our students and all other students at the University of Tartu.

From the 2026/2027 academic year, many international master’s curricula at the University of Tartu will offer tuition waivers or reductions to students from the European Union. Students arriving from outside the European Union will have to pay tuition fees.

The University of Tartu’s endowment fund received 1.6 million euros from the bequest of expatriate Estonian Kadri Rõuk. This amount was used to establish the Rõuk Family Estonian Language Fund, which will advance and develop research on the Estonian language and teaching Estonian language and linguistics at the University of Tartu.

All full-time students of the University of Tartu, the University of Latvia and Vilnius University may apply for the 2,000-euro scholarship if their proficiency in one of the Baltic countries’ languages is at least at C1 level and in the other two languages at least at A2 level. Visiting international students who study at one of the three universities in both semesters of this academic year may also apply.

On 19 December at 14:15 Kairit Tomson will defend her doctoral thesis "Põhjustamisseoste väljendamine ning analüütiliste põhjustamiskonstruktsioonide kujunemine ja kasutus eesti keeles" ("Expressing causal relations in Estonian and the development and usage of analytic causatives").

At its meeting on 2 December, the council of the University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics elected Associate Professor of General Linguistics Ann Veismann as the new head of the institute.