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Master’s degree ceremony of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities takes place on Thursday, 20 June at 13.00 in the University of Tartu assembly hall (Ülikooli 18).

The exhibition shows the discoveries of dozens of University of Tartu researchers that have significantly impacted global advancements in science and helped us better understand our surroundings.

The theme week, running from 5 to 11 February, will include a social media campaign highlighting the work and achievements of women researchers.

From 29 January to 2 February, the international winter school "Survivance and Survival:  Theory and Method" will focus on the question of the survival of humanity by looking at it from the perspective of the humanities.

The Digital Cleanup Week will take place at the University of Tartu for the fourth time from 22 to 26 January.

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities provides a diverse range of optional courses, including options in English and various other languages.

Join a multi-day statistics masterclass in January. Master class: Towards Data Analysis Excellence will take place in UT from 16th to 19 of January.

Adult learners are welcome to participate in micro-credential programmes starting in the spring semester and delivered in block mode or online form suitable for working people. Applications can be submitted until 21 January 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.

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

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.

Distinguished linguistics professors, Laura Janda and Harald Baayen, will be visiting Tartu on the last week of November. They will give two workshops coordinated by the MEDAL consortium.

Professor Rolf Harald Baayen will be granted an honorary doctorate in linguistics for his outstanding contribution.

Tartu Ülikooli personaliosakond on uuendanud võrdse kohtlemise temaatikat käsitlevat veebilehte.

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 special issue of the Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, titled "Approaches to Language Planning" is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of J. V. Veski's birth.

Students and university staff are invited to the presentation and award ceremony of the best theses in digital humanities.

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.