Topic: governance

At the senate meeting on 25 August, the senate decided to propose to the Government of the Republic to remove Mari Moora from the University of Tartu council due to her appointment as Vice Rector for Research and to appoint Associate Professor in Animal Ecology Tuul Sepp as member of the council. The government accepted the motion at their session on 12 October.

On Friday, 13 October, leaders of the University of Tartu and the city of Tartu met in the university’s main building to discuss the topics in which the university and the city can support each other’s development. Based on the agreements reached at the meeting, the university and city cooperation agreement will be renewed.

On 3 October, the faculties’ electoral bodies elected new deans for the University of Tartu. The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Anti Selart, the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences Margit Keller, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Külli Kingo, and the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology Leho Ainsaar will assume office on 1 January 2024.

Universitas Tartuensis paid a visit to Rector Toomas Asser, now in his second term of office, at his summer house to ask him about his thoughts ahead of his new term in a more relaxed atmosphere. It should be noted that the meeting took place just before the summer holidays of July and the heated discussions on research ethics and data protection of August.

At the beginning of October, deans were elected for the university's four faculties.

On 12 September, the commission formed for the dean elections registered the dean candidates of the university’s four faculties.