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Round Table discussion on Estonian language teaching in schools, organised by the Estonian Language Council and the University of Tartu

On 11 November 2024, a seminar and round table were held to discuss the teaching of Estonian as a school subject in the midst of societal changes.

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20.12.2024

Learn Estonian in a Festive Atmosphere: Games, Songs, and New Connections!

This year’s final Language Date is infused with holiday spirit: participants will practice Estonian through various games, songs, and drawing activities.

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05.12.2024

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Ruth Rebecca Tietjen will give a talk on existential, social and political loneliness

Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics cordially invite you on Monday, 25 November at 16:15, Jakobi 2-336 to attend a talk by Dr. Ruth Rebecca Tietjen “Variations on loneliness: existential, social, political”. Dr. Tietjen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University and Pof. Dr. Theda Rehbock’s Philosophy Resident at Susimetsa Philosophicum.

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19.11.2024

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.

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24.10.2024

Doktorant kolme minuti loengute konkursil esinemas

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.

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25.09.2024

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.

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17.09.2024

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“).

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17.09.2024

Street art of soldier with rocket launcher

How ethical is it to kill your enemies? Oxford Professor Jeff McMahan presents special issue on Russia-Ukraine war

On 5 September, one of the world’s leading moral philosophers, Professor Jeff McMahan from the University of Oxford, will give a public lecture on the ethics of killing and just war theory. His lecture marks the publication of a special issue of a philosophy journal focused on the Russia-Ukraine war. The event will be held from 16:00 to 18:00 in White Hall at the University of Tartu Museum.

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22.08.2024

Professor Karl Pajusalu wins the Latvian and Estonian Language Promotion Award

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.

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08.07.2024

Learner of Estonian as a second language: we cannot learn without you

According to the latest census, 243 languages are spoken as mother tongues in Estonia, so we have a lot of people who speak Estonian as a second language.

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29.05.2024