Skytte news

From 12 June to 21 September, all University of Tartu staff and students and everyone else are welcome to complete the orienteering course “Exploring Tartu along Struve Geodetic Arc”.

The webinar series GoGREEN Tuesdays: Ideas in Action continues, this time focusing on renewable energy production. The webinar will explore the most effective ways for municipalities to produce their own renewable energy while also promoting energy independence and climate neutrality.

At the end of May, a delegation from the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) visited Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies within the BRIDGE Project.

Global Politics and Foreign Influence micro-qualification programme

On Thursday, 5 June, a new board for the University of Tartu Student Union (UTSU) was elected during a meeting of the student parliament.

Our webinar series GoGREEN Tuedays: Ideas in Action continues, this time focusing on sustainable transport and e-mobility opportunities in urban transport development.

The Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies is proud to announce that Dr. Stefano Braghiroli, Associate Professor of European Studies, has been awarded the Order of the Star of Italy.

The micro-credential programme "Fundamentals of the European Union" is being held in the 2025/2026 autumn semester.

Over the past month, the Skytte Institute has been working with the academic staff of Moldova State University, to develop the first-ever MOOC to be created and offered by a Moldovan university.

The University of Tartu’s podcast for prospective international students, “Tiksu to UniTartu”, is back this summer with a second season.

We invite engaging presentations from all fields of research, delivered in clear language, in Estonian or English.

Four e-courses created by the staff of Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies received an e-course quality label in the competition "Estonian E-course Quality Label 2025", organised by the e-learning quality working group of the Estonian Quality Agency for Education.

LOCAL GoGREEN project is launching a new webinar series titled “GoGREEN Tuesdays: Ideas in Action” to help in the development and implementation of Integrated Climate and Energy Plans (ICEPs).

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.

Monday, 19 May 2025 at 4:15-6:00pm in the rotunda at the Old Anatomical Theatre, 10 Uppsala Street (Dome Hill) Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University) will be in discussion with Eva Piirimäe, Pärtel Piirimäe and Hent Kalmo (University of Tartu)

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Visiting Professor of Democracy in the Digital Age at the University of Tartu, will deliver two public lectures in May.

All Estonian public universities will celebrate Diversity Week from 5–11 May for the second year. This year’s focus is on encouraging people to notice and to act.

Most of the events taking place during the Tartu Student Days Spring Festival from 25 April to 3 May are organised by student organisations from Tartu’s higher education institutions.

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 9 May at 13:00 Eoin Micheál McNamara will defend his doctoral dissertation "The Risk Society’s Stabilisation Failure? An Analysis of NATO and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan".