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Tag Archives: Estonia
Character Determines Food Preference
A large-scale study carried out in Estonia revealed clear links between personal traits and food preference. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences
Tagged character, eating, Estonia, Estonians, food, personal traits, psychology, Scottish
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7 Great Resources on Estonian Nature
This collection of online resources should help you explore this completely flat, possibly too cold, but stunningly beautiful country. Having visited crowded beaches in faraway countries, a growing number of Estonians prefer to spend their summer vacation in their homeland. Continue reading
Estonia and the Euro: A Wedding without Honeymoon
Raul Eamets, Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Tartu, makes an analogy between last year’s remarkable step for the Estonian economy – the introduction of the euro – and getting married, while admitting the non-appearance of a much anticipated honeymoon, as the timing for the wedding was far from perfect. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Research, Social sciences
Tagged economy, Estonia, EU, euro, eurozone, macroeconomics, professor
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Estonian Mafia: The Insider View
Priit Salumaa, co-founder of two influential non-profit initiatives in Estonia: MobileMonday and Garage48, writes about the startup companies and environment in Estonia. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Estonia
Tagged Estonia, estonianmafia, garage48, startup, startup country
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TEDxTartu: How to Save Yourself and The Planet
Halliki Mullari shares the ideas and impressions from TEDxTartu in November 2011. Speeches varied from very concrete ideas on what you can do for your own health every day, to more complicated issues, like how to save the planet. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, Tartu
Tagged education, environment, Estonia, health, ideas, innovation, inspiration, TEDx, TEDxTartu
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Why “Searching for My Roots” Also Means “Working on My Fluency”
Virve Vihman, adviser to the UT Rector on internationalisation, discusses the issues of language and identity through her own story of growing up as an Estonian-American in California. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Humanities, Research
Tagged Estonia, Estonian-American, identity, language and identity, symposium
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GO SOUTH, Go Fun!
Gabriela Küsters is an Erasmus student from the University of Applied Sciences in Holland. Gabriela also works as a website reporter at her home university and studies journalism and newswriting at the London School of Journalism. Study abroad is perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, Student life, Tartu
Tagged ESN, Estonia, go south trip, Southern Estonia, student trip
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