Skytte news

Adult learners are welcome to participate in micro-credential programmes starting in the spring semester and delivered in block mode or online form suitable for working people. Applications can be submitted until 21 January 2024.

The Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at University of Tartu is to develop a set of thorough training materials addressing specific gaps in the knowledge and capacity of local specialists.

On 28 November, the Ambassador of France to Estonia, His Excellency Emmanuel Mignot, visited the University of Tartu.

English Held Microcredential on Cyber Policy and Law

Next year, we will celebrate 20 years since Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined the European Union. Having now experienced a global pandemic, two financial crises and the effects of unfiltered globalisation, unprecedented movements of peoples across continents, and the start of the war ravaging Ukraine, we can say that today's world is more unpredictable and chaotic than 20 years ago.

The University of Tartu is inviting future international students to come student shadowing and live one day as a university student.

Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies to host a seminar with Ukrainian Ambassador to Estonia, His Excellency Maksym Kononenko

H.E. Ambassador Emmanuel Mignot (Amb. of France to Estonia) will meet Skytte students to discuss France’s Perspective on the Baltics and Broader European Affairs.

Anastasiia Turusinova's exhibition "Moods of Tartu." All the photos are film photography taken on different analogue cameras in her collection.

The graduation ceremony of the Johan Skytte Institute for Political Studies will take place on June 19, 2024 at 11:00 in the assembly hall of the university's main building (Ülikooli 18, Tartu)

November 15th at 16:15. Room 307

7 November 2023, at 14.15-15.45 in Lossi 36, room 306

Organized within the framework of the project "Building Virtual Exchange Capacities in the Baltic Sea Region" (EnVision)

Wednesday, November 1, 16:00-17:15, Lossi 36-323

On 27 October, the University of Tartu senate decided to award the Johan Skytte medal to Margit Sutrop, member of the Riigikogu and Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu. The highest award granted to university members, the University of Tartu Grand Medal, is given to two university researchers for services of particular value. 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 selected.

The university will use the survey to find out what kind of mobility Estonia's largest university brings about and what attitudes staff and students hold towards sustainable mobility.

Minutes from our DeFacto Dialogues: “Israel and Hamas on the brink of an all-out war within and beyond Gaza?” from 24th of October, 2023.

Over the past week, a delegation of lecturers and students from Moldova State University visited Tartu and Tallinn as part of a Skytte-led cooperation project.

DeFacto Dialogues: Israel and Hamas on the brink of an all-out war within and beyond Gaza? Open Seminar on October 24, 2023, at 16:15-17:45

On 13 November, the Delta Trends Day 2023 "Artificial Intelligence: Hype, Revolution or Innovation as Usual?” takes place, where researchers and entrepreneurs from across the world discuss the topics.