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The sTARTUp Day business festival takes place at the Estonian National Museum from 25 to 27 August. More than 150 inspiring speakers get on stage in the three-day programme, and over 100 business ideas will be presented to entrepreneurs and investors. For the third time, the University of Tartu is leading the "Science to Business" programme. The university's research-based spin-offs and success stories of business cooperation are introduced in the demo area.

On 24–26 August, the University of Tartu will host the 25th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), an international meeting of researchers in the field of data management and information systems engineering. Registration is open until the start of the event, both for online participants and for those who wish to join the event in Tartu.

The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has selected the Pan-European project SoBigData++ to be part of its Roadmap 2021. This support will provide state of the art research in the domain of social media mining, which will benefit computer scientists from the University of Tartu and foster cross-disciplinary research with social science and digital humanities, and industrial and research organisations across various institutes in Estonia.

This week the vaccination team from the University of Tartu Hospital will share information about coronavirus vaccinations on Car Free Avenue. The vaccination team will be present on July 27 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., on July 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on July 30 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The team can answer questions. It is possible to print out a digital vaccination certificate on site for those who have been vaccinated but do not have the opportunity to print one themselves.

We'd like to start teaching and studies in the autumn as normally as possible and meet face to face in class, and therefore it is important that as many of our new and returning students and university staff as possible are vaccinated. The nearest vaccination locations can be found on the website vaktsineeri.ee.

According to the respondents, the University of Tartu diploma is highly valued in the labour market, and high-level research is done and excellent education is offered at the university.

On 28 June at 9:15 Dmytro Fishman will defend his doctoral thesis “Developing a data analysis pipeline for automated protein profiling in immunology” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Computer Science). The defence takes place in Zoom.

On 21 June at 11:15 Liis Kolberg will defend her thesis “Developing and applying bioinformatics tools for gene expression data interpretation” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Computer Science). The defence will take place online. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Hedi Peterson, University of Tartu

The graduation ceremonies of the University of Tartu are held from 15 to 30 June in person. In Tartu, the ceremonies take place on the square in front of the Old Anatomical Theatre. The graduation of Viljandi Culture Academy will take place as individual ceremonies that were well-received last year. In Narva, Pärnu and Tallinn, graduation ceremonies are held indoors.

Univeristy of Tartu (UT) Institute of Computer Science, Garage48 and UT Startup Lab organised the 8th Student Startup Camp that brought together university students from all over Estonia. Due to coronavirus restrictions, the camp took place completely online.

The June newsletter of the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science is out and can be read here.

On 8 June at 14:15 Tauno Palts will defend his doctoral thesis “A model for assessing computational thinking skills” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Computer Science). The defence will take place online. Supervisors: Prof. Margus Pedaste, University of Tartu Prof. Varmo Vene, University of Tartu Opponents: Prof. Valentina Dagiene, Vilnius University (Lithuania)

The Institute of the Estonian Language and the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research have initiated the largest language technology development project to date, as a result of which the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science and the Baltic language technology and localisation company Tilde started working on a reliable open-source machine translation platform for three language pairs: Estonian-English-Estonian, Estonian-Russian-Estonian and Estonian-German-Estonian.

The university’s orienteering month – May – is about to end, but as the initiative has attracted much interest, the orienteering course will remain open until 6 June. The university invites all employees, students, alumni and their families as well everyone else to orienteering in the city of Tartu. Come to discover places where the university family has done exercise and sports since the early 19th century!

Despite the government’s decision to allow face-to-face studies also in higher education starting from 17 May, the university continues work as previously planned. Decisions about the organisation of studies continue to be made by the head of institute in cooperation with the vice dean for academic affairs. The only change is that the requirement not to exceed 25% room capacity has been lifted. The allowed percentage of room capacity is to be decided by the head of institute.

The Office of Academic Affairs in cooperation with the Student Union have chosen the new course registration start time. Based on the results of the survey conducted, registration will start at 21:00.

On 4 May at 14:15 Kaido Lepik will defend his doctoral thesis “Inferring causality between transcriptome and complex traits” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Computer Science). The defence will be held in Zoom. Supervisors: Sen. Res. Fellow Hedi Peterson, University of Tartu Prof. Jaak Vilo, University of Tartu

The May newsletter of the UT Institute of Computer Science is out and can be read here.

On 21 April, the University of Tartu and Bolt signed a significant agreement to expand collaboration in the development of autonomous vehicle technology. The Institute of Computer Science will considerably enlarge the autonomous driving technology research group, creating better opportunities for research, development and innovation in this field and for the practical training of students.

Throughout May, the university invites all employees, students, alumni and their families to orienteering in the city of Tartu. The spring orienteering course, compiled by the university museum, focuses on places related to sports and recreation. Did you know that according to architect Krause’s initial floor plans there was supposed to be a fencing hall on the ground floor of the main building? If not, come orienteering and find out other exciting sports-related facts about the university.