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3 Visions for the Future of Universitas Tartuensis

This is a summary of the University of Tartu’s Rector candidates’ (Volli Kalm, Toivo Maimets, Mart Ustav) views on a number of key issues, based on their election programmes and public interviews. The election will be held on May 31, 2012. Continue reading

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Podcast: Museum of The Future (Part 1/2)

This is the first part of the podcast on the museum of the future with participation of Mariann Raisma, director of the University of Tartu History Museum, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, head of the University of Tartu’s Department of Journalism and Communication and Agnes Aljas, a doctoral student at the University of Tartu and Research Secretary at the Estonian National Museum. Continue reading

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Why This Blog?

“Perhaps it’s meant to coincide with the new academic year,” you might think. This is a good occasion indeed, but not good enough to be a good reason.

Although our university communities are doing well on Facebook and Twitter, we seem to be missing a spacious forum where intriguing research, new ideas, valuable experience, campus life and so much more could be shared and discussed within our academic family.

Well, some of you may be aware of our monthly newsletter, but it has been more of a one-way channel so far. Hopefully this will change radically with this blog in place.

So what are we planning here? We’d like to offer you thought-provoking research stories, posts by our talented student authors, video interviews, podcasts and plentiful opportunities to be a part of interesting discussions. Continue reading

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