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.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
