On Tuesday, 20 May, representatives of the Romanian royal family – Her Majesty Margareta and her husband Prince Radu – visited the University of Tartu. In the university’s senate hall, Prince Radu delivered a public presentation about the security of the EU’s and NATO’s Eastern border.
Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students from universities in the Baltic countries, including the University of Tartu, are invited to an international student conference ”Bridges in the Baltics“, held at the University of Latvia in Riga from 9 to 10 October 2025. Conference abstracts can be sent until 30 June 2025.
On 14–15 March, rectors from the partnership programme LERU-CE7 between the League of European Research Universities and a group of seven leading Central European universities (CE7) gathered at the University of Tartu.
On 1 April at 16:15 Hanna Perekhodawill give a lecture "Ukraine's Centrality in the Russian Political Imaginary: Explaining Continuity, Avoiding Essentialism" in room 230 of Jakobi study building. The lecture will be held in English. Everybody interested in the topic is welcome.
The planned visit of the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on 13 March to the University of Tartu and the president's public lecture will not take place.
On Thursday, February 13th, the final conference of the ECePS ERA Chair "Promises and Paradoxes of Open Data" will be held at the University of Tartu Delta Building (Narva mnt 18, Room 1005).
On February 14 and 19, everyone is welcome to attend public lectures by Sebastian Rimestad from the University of Leipzig. He will explore topics such as Orthodox Christianity and religious authority in Western Europe, as well as the "Ortho-Bros" movement and political cleavage in the USA.