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Speech by Rector Toomas Asser at the opening of the academic year 2022/2023.

On Thursday, Professor Mart Kalm, Rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts, handed over the leadership of the representative organisation of Estonian public universities to Professor Toomas Asser.

The international business accelerator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) launched at the University of Tartu brings together research-intensive start-ups from across Europe.

The University of Tartu Summer School has been an ongoing tradition since the end of the 1990s. This year, the University of Tartu organised the International Summer University for the 25th time.

On 22 August, the UT Botanical Garden hosted Rector Toomas Asser's reception to Ukrainian members of the university in honour of the Independence Day of Ukraine.

On Monday, the opening ceremony of the 2022/2023 academic year takes place in front of the University of Tartu main building. Everyone is invited to rally in support of higher education funding.

We are inviting submissions for the free issue of Estonian Journal of Education (Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri), which is scheduled to be published in November 2023.

The University of Tartu offers its researchers and students a science-based business development program.

Today, the new wave of the coronavirus prevalence survey led by the University of Tartu starts.

Skytte e-course "Common Challenges of Competing Regionalisms", 2 ETC, 29.08.2022 - 09.10.2022.

Today starts the three-day summer school ESSCaSS, which brings together 125 researchers, PhD students and representatives from the industry from Estonia and abroad.

On 30 July, an amendment to the regulation of the Government came into force, restricting Russian citizens from applying for temporary residence permits or visas for studying in Estonia.

The first ancient genomes to be sequenced from the virus behind cold sores suggest that modern strains of herpes started to go global in the Bronze Age.

University of Tartu invites Ukrainian and Georgian citizens to participate in a free micro-credential course “Technology use in contemporary learning”.

The assessment council of the Estonian Quality Agency for Education (HAKA) has decided to accredit the University of Tartu for the next seven years.

Research of the Univeristy of Tartu will be presented at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) held in Leiden, Netherlands, from 13 to 16 July.

Among others, the University of Tartu geologists, in cooperation with the Estonian Geological Survey, are mapping the reserves of critical metals in the crystalline basement.

Nearly 30 specialists from Ukrainian universities and educational institutions will take part in face-to-face continuing education courses organised by the University of Tartu in July and August.

The University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, together with partners, will launch an international incubation programme to foster creative economy.

According to the universities’ reputation survey people of all age groups consider the University of Tartu to be Estonia’s most reputable higher education institution.