Topic: university

This summer, the university announced an architectural competition to find a design for constructing an academic and research building and landscaping the surrounding area at Maarjavälja. On 19 October, the procurement committee opened the ten entries submitted to the competition.

The idea competition aims to find the best solution for reconstructing the academic building at Kaarli pst 3 and the design for the yard area.

On 25 October, the 391st anniversary of the founding of the University of Tartu is celebrated. There will be two lectures, flowers will be laid at memorials and a concert held to mark this occasion.

The Police and Border Guard announced at 9:15 that dozens of Estonian institutions, including schools and kindergartens, received a bomb threat by email in Russian tonight.

On 13 October at 15, the city of Tartu will open a memorial to Konstantin Konik, a statesman and a long-time employee of the University of Tartu, near the University of Tartu Library.  

On 1 December, starting at 19:30, the traditional anniversary ball marking the 104th anniversary of Estonia’s national university will take place in Vanemuine Concert Hall. Doors are open from 18:30.

On 6 October at 12, a commemorative plaque will be unveiled on the wall of the Von Bock House of the University of Tartu, as the Estonian University of Life Sciences celebrates the 175th anniversary of teaching veterinary medicine. The first patient – a horse – was admitted to the Von Bock House on 13 October 1848.

From 2 October to 5 November, all University of Tartu employees, students, alumni, their families and all others interested are welcome to complete the orienteering course and reconnect with the varied history of Toome Hill. 

1 December marks 104 years from the opening of the Estonian-language University of Tartu.

Speech by President of the University of Tartu Student Union Renar Kihho at the opening ceremony of the academic year on 4 September 2023.