Topic: university

11.01.2022 European Commission and OECD-INFE published a joint financial competence framework for adults to improve overall financial wisdom. Our Research Fellow Leonore Riitsalu has participated as an expert in its technical discussion.

The first Christmas video of the university was released on 28 November, the First Advent Sunday. The project was led by the International Cooperation and Protocol Office and the video was produced by Jopp Creative, a Tartu-based creative agency.

This book presents an analytical framework which assesses how 'land-for-peace' agreements can be achieved in the context of territorial conflicts between de facto states and their respective parent states.

7 December The Economist published a by-invitation essay written by Estonian former president and the Visiting Professor of Skytte Institute Toomas Hendrik Ilves. In his essay discusses Toomas Hendrik Ilves about the value and virtue of liberal democracy. "Authoritarians deliver fast results but repress individual freedoms and the rule of law that a just society requires, says a former president of Estonia" Article in The Economist

The inaugural lecture by UT Professor of Regional Political Studies Andrey Makarychev, „Regionalism: a Biopolitical Perspective“, will be delivered on 21 October 2021 at 16:15 in the White Hall of the UT Museum.

Today, on 13 September at 16, the Ambassador of Romania Călin Stoica opens an exhibition of Estonian-Romanian diplomatic documents in the White Hall of the University of Tartu Museum. Greetings on behalf of the University of Tartu are delivered by Erik Puura, Vice Rector for Development.

We'd like to start teaching and studies in the autumn as normally as possible and meet face to face in class, and therefore it is important that as many of our new and returning students and university staff as possible are vaccinated. The nearest vaccination locations can be found on the website vaktsineeri.ee.

Tartu Conference

While the 19th century was dominated by the British Empire and the 20th century by the United States of America, the 21st century is the Asian century. Asian politics, economies and cultures become more dominant. At the same time, there is no such thing as a common Asian politics, economies or cultures – the area is heterogeneous with various states, nations, cultures and languages. The webinar series “Contemporary Asia” aims to look into Asian countries with a focus on certain topics to understand them better.