Topic: sustainability

The public online workshop discussing the human health impacts of urban greenness will be held on Friday, 26 January.

The Digital Cleanup Week will take place at the University of Tartu for the fourth time from 22 to 26 January.

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 has an important role to play in shaping the space of Tartu and its college towns, preserving cultural heritage and implementing energy-efficient solutions.

On 22 December the university announced a framework call for tenders for electricity procurement from renewable energy sources.

At the council meeting of the University of Tartu’s Centre for Sustainable Development on 13 December, the council appointed Professor of Environmental Health Hans Orru as the new Head of the Centre.

At the conference COP28, University of Tartu scientists will present their relevant research, practical applications, and an educational programme for schools in the Estonian pavilion.

The Fair Transition Fund’s consortium of Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu will implement 22 research projects in Ida-Viru County over the next six years to support socioeconomic change in the region and meet the development needs of companies.

A bibliometric analysis published in 2014 estimated that published scientific output doubles every nine years.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Evelyn Uuemaa, Professor of Geoinformatics at the University of Tartu, the Consolidator Grant.