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Hungarian dance evening welcomes everyone
The next autumnal Hungarian dance evening will take place on 16 November at 6 PM in the Tiigi club house. Everyone is welcome to dance!
University of Tartu and Estonian National Museum step up cooperation in teaching doctoral students
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.
European Commission funds new research centre for digital text scholarship
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.
This year’s recipients of honorary decorations have been announced
On 25 October, the University of Tartu senate decided to award the University of Tartu Grand Medal to Professor of International Business Urmas Varblane. 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 announced.
Come to Blood Donor Day on 26 November!
The University of Tartu and the Blood Centre of Tartu University Hospital invite the university family to a blood donor day on Tuesday, 26 November, from 10:30 to 15:00 at the Delta Centre.
Filmo-Ugri movie nights
From this autumn, films on Finno-Ugric and linguistics will be shown on the last Thursday of every month.
Upcoming workshop will give a look at the behind-the-scenes of an academic journal
On November 20th, Dagmar Divjak (University of Birmingham, Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Linguistics) will give us a look at the behind-the-scenes of a journal.
IN MEMORIAM. Mati Erelt
Professor Emeritus Mati Erelt, the grand old man of Estonian syntax, passed away on 12 October at the age of 83.
Building competencies for transdisciplinary collaboration
On 20-21 November, a short course on building competences for transdisciplinary collaboration will be held at the University of Tartu Library.
Orienteering course "Dormitories as hubs of student life" is still open for final few weeks
From 8 May to 20 October, all UT employees, students, alumni and all others interested are welcome to complete the orienteering course and reconnect with the history of the UT dormitories.
Open science workshop will dive into the fundamentals of preregistration
On November 6, Dirk van Gorp (Open Science Officer at Radboud University Library) and Anita Eerland (Assistant Professor at Behavioural Science Institute and Communication Science) will dive into the fundamentals of preregistration.
Headliner of the anniversary ball of Estonia’s national university is Trad.Attack!
Come celebrate with us the beginning of higher education in Estonian!
Mental Health Month X UTSU
All University of Tartu students are welcome to join us and focus on mental health together! We here at the Student Union want to contribute to students' mental well-being.
Statistics masterclass on Bayesian regression to be held in October
From 21 to 24 October, Natalia Levshina from Radboud University will conduct a statistics masterclass covering Bayesian statistics with a focus on language data. The event includes both theoretical and practical sessions.
Come and listen! Doctoral students give inspiring short lectures to present the latest research
The competition will be held on Wednesday, 2 October at 10:00 in the Conference Hall of the University of Tartu Library.
WATCH RECORDING! Building bridges between science and society. Why and how to do cross-disciplinary research?
On 20 November, the University of Tartu Library hosted a conference focusing on the particulars of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary cooperation.
Lectures on identity-building of Estonian residents after restoration of independence
On the 3rd, 10th, ja 17th of October at 15.30 - 17.00
New handbook provides support for non-Estonian-speaking parents
Professor Birute Klaas-Lang has compiled a handbook titled "My Child Learns in Estonian" („Minu laps õpib eesti keeles“).
New volunteers welcome to make camouflage nets for Ukraine
At the University of Tartu, the weaving of camouflage nets and the making of helmet covers for the Ukrainian armed forces continues.
MEDAL workshop: Advanced data retrieval for corpus linguistics
On the 23-24th of September, we will have a hands-on workshop with Akira Murakami from the University of Birmingham, who will introduce methods for retrieving complex patterns from a corpus using R.
