Category Archives: Tartu

Happy Icy Tartu

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Kaija Pook

This is a visual story about the colours of life in Tartu before darkness invaded the town, wrapping the Kissing Students in cold, spectacular ice. Continue reading →

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UT Student Blogger Contest: 5 Best Stories

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

These are the 5 best stories submitted to the UT Student Blogger Contest 2012 by international students at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Continue reading →

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Mika Keränen: I Need Colder Seasons To Think and Work

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

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 →

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Student Interview: Voronezh Is Like Tartu, but 10 Times Bigger

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

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 →

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Four Months of Erasmus in Winter

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Catherina Langhoff

Catherina from Germany writes about her four months of Erasmus experience in Estonia and Tartu, including the survival in winter. Continue reading →

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Student Interview: A Book Brought Me to Estonia

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

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 →

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Remote Peak Named after Tartu Conquered Again

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

A team of ten mountaineers from Tartu and Tallinn have reconquered the 6,258-meter peak named after the University of Tartu in the Central Pamirs in Tajikistan after its first-ever ascent 30 years ago when the university celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1982. Continue reading →

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