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Author Archives: Inga Külmoja
UT Gangnam Style: Behind the Scenes
In less than a month, a group of our students produced an incredible Gangnam style video that collected 35,000 views within a week since its release. This is a behind-the-scenes story of how it all happened. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, Student life, Tartu
Tagged filming, Gangnam style, student, student life, student video, Tartu, University of Tartu
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4 Good Reasons for You to Visit Narva
Narva is much more than another province town. With 82 percent of its population being ethnically Russians, it is a different Estonia. Here are 4 good reasons for you to visit Narva. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, General
Tagged Estonia, Narva, Narva college, new building, official opening, Russia, Russian, tourism
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Mika Keränen: I Need Colder Seasons To Think and Work
This is a podcast interview with Mika Keränen, a writer, alumnus and lecturer of Finnish at the University of Tartu. Mika: “If your happiness is somewhere between the bushes of Botanical Garden, or near the riverbanks where the self-made thinkers sit, then you are in the right place – in Tartu.” Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Student life, Studies, Tartu
Tagged alumnus, autumn, Botanical Garden, Finland, Finnish, frienship, history, podcast, Sofi Oksanen, student life, teacher, winter, writer
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Student Interview: Voronezh Is Like Tartu, but 10 Times Bigger
This is an interview with Ekaterina Bogdanova from Voronezh State University in Russia. Ekaterina is on her exchange semester in Tartu in autumn 2012. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Student life, Studies, Tartu
Tagged exchange semester, Russia, student, student life, Tartu, Voronezh
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How Good Is Estonian Science?
When countries are compared according to the average number of references per scientific article, Estonia has 9.46 references per article, putting the country in 30th place, right after Singapore and before Portugal. Seventeen scientists from Estonian universities belong to the top one per cent of the most referenced scientists in the world. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged Estonia, Estonian science, Estonian scientists, mismatch negativity, most referenced scientists, quotability
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Student Interview: A Book Brought Me to Estonia
This is a twitterview with Maeva from France who arrived to Tartu for her Erasmus year. Maeva’s journey to Estonia started two years ago when she read the Purge (in Finnish: Puhdistus), an award-winning novel by a Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Student life, Studies, Tartu
Tagged Puhdistus, Sofi Oksanen, student interview, student life, twitterview
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