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On 25 October, the University of Tartu senate decided to award the University of Tartu Grand Medal to Professor of International Business Urmas Varblane. 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 announced.

EXCOSM is a new Horizon Europe Twinning project beginning in Tartu Observatory on the 1st of October. The project partners the University of Tartu with the Potsdam Astrophysical Institute in Germany, the Groningen University in the Netherlands, and the University of Lorraine in France.

Nominations can be submitted via the web form until 20 September.

Apply for the Tartu Observatory's annual scholarships in astronomy, environmental physics and remote sensing until 4 October 2024.

Nominations for the Tartu Observatory's Star of the Milky Way can be submitted until 30 September.

The mentoring programme will be held again this autumn semester, welcoming students, alumni and university staff to apply until 23 September.

The registration for three-minute thesis competition ends on 19 September.

The international geoinformatics conference “Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Europe 2024” will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from 1 to 7 July.

Speakers from each field are invited to give engaging presentations in Estonian or English, outlining the importance and results of their research.

The first Copernicus FRM4SOC 2024 training (FICE2024) was held in Venice at CNR-ISMAR From 6 – 17 May 2024.

On 29 May, the Estonian Human Rights Centre presented the "Respecting differences" label to the University of Tartu for the second time at the joint building of ministries in Tallinn.

Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, is cooperating with Ukrainian institutions to apply remote sensing methods and applications developed in Tõravere by our scientists for monitoring forests and water-bodies.

The University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn University, the Estonian University of Life Sciences, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Estonian Academy of Arts, and the Gender Equality and Equal Treatment Commissioner celebrate the Diversity Week from 6 to 12 May, under the title “Diverse Estonian universities”.

When a star like our Sun reaches the end of its life, it can ingest the surrounding planets and asteroids that were born with it. Researchers have found a unique signature of this process for the first time — a scar imprinted on the surface of a white dwarf star.

The laboratories of Tartu Observatory of the University of Tartu were expanded and upgraded by the beginning of 2024. This enables testing small space technologies in Tõravere at the European Cooperation Space Standard (ECSS) level.

Over the next seven years, the government will fund ten centres of excellence addressing scientific issues of importance to Estonia. The University of Tartu has tight connections with all of them.

The University of Tartu will organise its alumni get-together with the slogan “Back to the university” on 18 May 2024. Early-bird tickets at special rates are available from 1 December.

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

Tartu Ülikooli personaliosakond on uuendanud võrdse kohtlemise temaatikat käsitlevat veebilehte.

The competition for the scholarship established by the rectors of the University of Tartu, University of Latvia and Vilnius University has started again to promote the teaching and learning of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages and cultures.