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Category Archives: Estonia
How To Become a Master in the Startup Decathlon
Yrjo Ojasaar, an internationally successful entrepreneur, consultant, and teacher, speaks about the upcoming disruption in global education, constituents of good entrepreneurial education, and startups.
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Posted in Career, Estonia, Studies
Tagged DDVE, entrepreneurship, Master''s, startup, technology, virtual environments
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A Singaporean View: The Tartu Market, a Landmark To Be Visited
Saburi Ken, a Singaporean student at UT, would take his friends to Tartu Market, an under-appreciated historical monument that sells the freshest meat and awesome diary products. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Student life, Tartu
Tagged BA, food culture, landmark, market, prices, Singapore, student life, Tartu, Tartu market, tourism, travel
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How Greenfinches Help Our Understanding of the Immune System
Tuul Sepp. a young and talented researcher of animal ecology, knows that parasites rule this world. She looks into our defence system with the help of Estonian greenfinches – find out how. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged animal ecology, birds, ecoimmunology, greenfinches, hosts, immune defence, immune system, immunology, multidisciplinary, parasites
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The Curious Case of Estonia’s Fashion Sense
Natalia Hoffman, an independent researcher into the Estonian visual communication, has examined the local fashion scene (including junk shops and flea markets) and came out with some interesting observations. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Humanities, Research
Tagged charity shops, Estonia, Estonian fashion, fashion, flea markets, junk shops, Kihnu, national costume, student fashion
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To Be Estonian – It Sucks! Or not?
See why it may suck to be Estonian and what UT researchers and students think about this popular social and political parody. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, General
Tagged Estonian, history, music video, parody, political science, social, song
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Startup Nation Estonia: An Austrian’s View
Find out what Georg Singer, a development manager at the UT Institute of Computer Science, thinks about the ‘startup nation Estonia’ and how it compares to his home country, Austria. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Estonia, General
Tagged Austria, entrepreneurship, Estonia, innovation, IT, service, startup, startup country, technology
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Living on the Edge: Landlocked Seals in a Changing Climate
Even when there’s enough food, continuously warmer winters may make the ringed seal extinct. Such is the gloomy conclusion made by Mart Jüssi, a seal biologist at the University of Tartu, in his freshly defended doctoral thesis. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, climate change, ecology, ice, land-locked grey seal, PhD, PhD thesis, ringed seal, seal
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