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All university members are invited to nominate candidates who deserve to be awarded the university’s honorary decoration for their outstanding achievements.

Esmaspäeval, 11. septembril algusega kl 13.00 toimub Tartu Ülikooli aulas digitaalse bioinseneeria keskuse ning personaalmeditsiini teadus- ja arenduskeskuse avaüritus.

In the spring semester of 2023, 27 students took part in the competition Rally Estonia Challenge organised by the Autonomous Driving Lab, during which they took a self-driving car on Estonia's smaller roads.

Today starts the three-day IT Summer School ESSCaSS (Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science), which brings more than 120 researchers, doctoral students and students from Estonia and abroad to the Delta Centre.

At the beginning of August, the menu layout of the UT website was updated.

The city of Tartu and the University of Tartu signed a cooperation with CybExer Technologies to understand cyber threats better, enhance the cybersecurity of smart city solutions and raise awareness.

Thanks to cutting-edge research at the Institute of Computer Science, BetterMedicine, a company that automates the analysis of cancer CT scans, has received a boost. BetterMedicine was recently awarded a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council's Accelerator.

UT has completed the IT infrastructure for personalised medicine, enabling Estonian doctors and nurses to use genetic data for disease prevention and finding the best treatment plan for each person.

On 27 June, the global higher education consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) launched its World University Rankings 2024, adopting a methodology that has undergone considerable change. The University of Tartu is ranked 358th and again tops the list of Estonian universities.

On 23 May in Kadriorg, Tallinn, President Alar Karis presented the Young Scientist Awards of the Cultural Foundation of the President of the Republic. The Young IT Scientist Award was given to Dmytro

Young Scientist Award, the Young Environmental Scientist Award and the Young IT Scientist Award of the Cultural Foundation of the President of the Republic went to University of Tartu researchers

On 19 May, the Estonian Quality Agency for Education organised its spring seminar on the quality of e-learning.

On 17 May, the election commission confirmed the results of the senate elections.

The language learning hub, created to support the Estonian language learning of international staff, international students and students who speak Estonian as a foreign language.

Today, on 20 April, the 292-member electoral council elected Professor of Neurosurgery Toomas Asser as rector of the University of Tartu with 168 votes.

On Thursday, 20 April at 12:00, the 292-member electoral council will gather in the University of Tartu assembly hall to elect a rector for the university for the next five years.

The University of Tartu has been selected by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as one of the data partners of the DARWIN EU® network. This is a first step towards the common use of health data

Elena Sügis, Lecturer in Health Informatics at the Institute of Computer Science, participated as an educator in the online course "Masterclass in AI" for radiologists.

Researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science have added Livonian, Komi, Veps and 14 other low-resource Finno-Ugric languages to Neurotõlge.

Today, on 13 March, the commission formed for the University of Tartu rector elections registered Professor Toomas Asser, Professor Raul Eamets and Professor Jaak Vilo as rector candidates.