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Professor Volli Kalm, Rector of the University of Tartu (10 February 1953 – 23 December 2017)

30th Nov and 1st Dec. 2017 in Tallinn and Tartu (Estonia)

Meelis Luht, former management board member of Eesti Meedia Group, will start work as the Director of Administration of the University of Tartu on 21 August. Rector Volli Kalm said the new director of administration has been in charge of several different areas of activity in his career and is a top leader with international work experience. We can see his capability as well as his desire and ambition to actively contribute to the implementation of the university’s development goals.

ACUCARE Project’s final seminar on 2nd November focuses on promising interpofessional collaboration practices in psychiatric and child protection sectors in Finland and Estonia. You will meet professionals and get new ideas and inspiration for better collaboration. The seminar is specially designed for family workers, psychiatric nurses, child protection workers, school social workers, teachers, social workers in foster home and anyone interested in this topic.

The Centre for the Information Society at the University of Tartu is happy to announce their next webinar scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 17. October. This time our webinar is dedicated to the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference AoIR2017: Networked Publics, which will be held in Tartu, 18.-21. October.

Eurozine, the network of European cultural journals, together with the Estonian journal Vikerkaar, the Institute of Social Studies at the University of Tartu, and the Estonian cultural organisation SA Kultuurileht, will jointly hold the 28th European Meeting of Cultural Journals in Tartu, Estonia, on 20–22 October 2017.

Centre for the Information Society of the University of Tartu is happy to welcome everyone on 17th October (14.00-18.00) to take part of an International seminar „Ethical Dilemmas of Internet (Researchers)“. The seminar will take place on the main building of the university, room 128.

Centre for the Information Society of the University of Tartu is happy to welcome everyone on 17th October (14.00-18.00) to take part of an International seminar „Ethical Dilemmas of Internet (Researchers)“. The seminar will take place on the main building of the university, room 128.

Title: Social Media Analysis for Social Science Date: 16-17 October 2017, from 12-16 o’clock Venue: room 204 (Lossi 36) Presenters: Giovanni Boccia Artieri (University of Urbino Carlo Bo - Italy), Fabio Giglietto (University of Urbino Carlo Bo - Italy) and Luca Rossi (IT University of Copenhagen - Denmark)

Jan Richard Bærug, who recently defended his PhD at the University of Tartu, analysed the attitude of 691 newspapers and niche magazines of northern Europe to the merging of journalism and advertising. He found that three quarters of all analysed publications agreed to publish unlabelled marketing texts. According to Bærug, such hybridisation of journalism is a problem as it may weaken democracy.

From 7 to 14 July, academic staff and doctoral students from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and North India participate in the University of Tartu summer school. At the summer school in Tartu, participants learn about new research methods in environmental health and epidemiology, which they can use to conduct similar studies in their home universities.

From 7 to 14 July, academic staff and doctoral students from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and North India participate in the University of Tartu summer school. At the summer school in Tartu, participants learn about new research methods in environmental health and epidemiology, which they can use to conduct similar studies in their home universities.

From 8 to 15 March, students of Marymount University participate in the international continuing education programme on cyber security at the University of Tartu. Participants of the programme visit the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Estonia as well as Skype, Microsoft and other enterprises in Estonia and Finland. The 24 students participating in the programme come from various countries, including the USA, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Barbados, India and Ethiopia.

On September 8, the election commissions approved the dean candidates for the University of Tartu’s four faculties. The new deans are elected at the end of September and beginning of October and their term of office begins on 1 January 2016 when the university’s academic units continue as four faculties within the new structure.

Live stream from the Scandinavian biggest business forum starts on October 1st at 1:00 pm and on October 2nd at 10:00 am. The event is held at UT Oeconmicum (Narva mnt 4), room A 314. The panel of speakers is outstanding. You will have the change to hear:

The research project Usable and Efficient Secure Multi-party Computation led by Cybernetica AS received the highest possible mark from the European Commission in the final assessment. Recommendations by researchers of the University of Tartu Institute of Social Sciences helped the project reach the successful implementation of a secure computation system.

The University of Tartu has the largest number of graduates in Estonia—an estimated of 70 000 graduates. Aiming to bring the alumni community closer together, link them more to the university, develop mutual communication and professional cooperation, the University of Tartu launched a network for its alumni (www.utalumni.ee), novel in Estonia as well as Europe, the like of which is also used by the University of Oxford.

On 8 February, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves awarded by way of exception two Young Scientist Awards. The prize was given to UT mycologist Leho Tedersoo and media and communication researcher Andra Siibak. Graduate of the Institute of Computer Science Dan Bogdanov was given the Young IT Scientist Award. Leho Tedersoo is Senior Research Fellow in Ecology of Biological Interactions at the University of Tartu. In a short period of time he has founded his own research group and become an internationally acknowledged mycologist.

Authors of the twenty-year study “Me. The World. The Media” that was recently made into a book admit that Estonia is characterised by the ever deepening differentiation between population groups and the opposition between the accelerators and decelerators of social time. The findings of the comprehensive survey are more closely introduced at a conference in Tallinn on 18 April.

On December 9th, at the University of Tartu’s initiative, the first international business festival sTARTUp Day 2016 will be held. Over 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, students, and scientists will come together and more than 40 speakers will discuss successful business models.