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UT was successful in the call for proposals for centres of excellence in research: Archimedes Foundation made the proposal to fund three centres of excellence which are led by UT researchers. In addition, UT participates as a partner in all other centres of excellence which were successful in this call for proposals.

The most skilful combination of photography and science in 2015 was achieved by UT Institute of Chemistry Research Fellow Tavo Romann, who is Estonia’s science photographer of the year and whose winning photo depicts the decomposition of ionic liquid at extreme voltages on a carbon electrode.

From 25 to 29 January 2016, the first Winter School for the Erasmus Mundus master’s programme Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) takes place in Pühajärve, where under the supervision of leading European specialists, students practice team work, which is a crucial part of analytical chemistry. Winter School also fills an important role in creating links between analytical chemistry and other fields of research.

On Tuesday, 1 December, the University of Tartu celebrates the 96th anniversary of the national university with the traditional ceremony, torch-light procession and ball. Two honorary doctorates and 112 doctorates will be conferred at the ceremony and the University of Tartu Contribution to Estonian National Identity award will be presented. The ceremony is broadcasted live on www.uttv.ee.

During his visit to Tartu, the president, creator and founder of the European Union Science Olympiad (EUSO) Michael Cotter assured that Estonia is ready and capable to organise one of the biggest science contest for pupils of the European Union member states. The vision of the olympiad’s founder Michael Cotter for teaching natural sciences is that it should be integrated. Integrated studies of biology, chemistry and physics helps understand how the different fields are connected and give a broader understanding of what happens in nature and society.

We are glad to announce that the 2016 admission is officially open to the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme!

Do you have a science-based business idea but you do not have any money to start? Do you want to help to launch next revolutionary product or service? Vega fund, created in co-operation between SEB bank and the Universiy of Tartu, supports early stage science-based innovative business ideas with 36 000 euros. Applications are opened to: 1. A team of students or scientists who already have an innovative science-based solution to a common problem.

For the first time the Ministry of Education and Research presented the title Lecturer of the Year at the “Eestimaa õpib ja tänab (Estonia studies and expresses gratitude)” award gala and it was awarded to University of Tartu’s Professor of Analytical Chemistry Ivo Leito.

The Idea Lab starts their autumn season and invites students from all specialisations to the workshop “Kick-off Ideation” on Friday, 9 October at 16:00 (at Narva mnt 4) where Amid Moradganjeh, interaction designer with international experience, will give advice on how to recognise ideas with potential and how to find suitable team members.

From 20 to 25 September, several research institutions, incl. the University of Tartu and the university museums, open their doors for the Researchers’ Night Festival. In the course of the diverse programme, researchers come out of hiding from their laboratories and discuss generally educating topics in bars, the open air cinema and nature. Below are the events which involve people and institutions of the University of Tartu. The complete programme is available at teadlasteöö.ee/en.

This academic year, eighteen students started their master’s studies in the first Erasmus Mundus joint programme created by an Estonian university where in the two year master’s programme, all students complete their first year of studies in Tartu and second year in one of the three following universities: Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France, Åbo Akademi in Finland and Uppsala University in Sweden.

From 24 to 27 August, the University of Tartu will host a high–level physics conference where the opening lecture will be held by 2014 Nobel Prize Laureate and Professor of Stanford University William E. Moerner. The lecture takes place on Monday, 24 August at 10.15 at the University of Tartu’s Institute of Physics. The International Conference on Hole Burning, Single Molecule and Related Spectroscopies: Science and Applications (HBSM–2015) is a continuation to the long–term international conference series which started in Estonia in 1987.

The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) took place from 20 to 28 July in Azerbaijan and all four members of the Estonian team, from Gustav Adolf Gymnasium, Tallinn Secondary Science School and Hugo Treffner Gymnasium, received a medal.

Eight e-courses created at the University of Tartu were submitted to the contest “E-course quality label 2015”. Seven of them were considered worthy of the quality label. In total, 40 e-courses of different higher education institutions, vocational schools and general education schools were submitted for evaluation, 23 of which received the quality label. The quality label was awarded to the following e-courses of the University of Tartu:

On Monday, 2 March 2015 the web course “Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis” was launched the second time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course).

Until 31 January 2015, applications are open for the international master programme “EACH – Excellence in Analytical Chemistry” that starts in autumn 2015. The programme is coordinated by the University of Tartu and carried out in the cooperation of four European universities.

Today in Lund, Sweden, the foundation stone will be laid for the European Spallation Source (ESS), the superstructure that will be one of the most powerful research centres of the world and will mark the beginning of the new generation research in Europe. This is also significant for the researchers of the University of Tartu, who were the first among all partners to sign a contract to develop equipment for research with neutrons.

The researchers of the UT Institute of Physics were the first in Estonia to conclude an official agreement for their contribution in the construction of one of the world’s most powerful centres of materials science, the European Spallation Source. The researchers will start developing a device that allows measuring the structure of excited biomolecules by means of extremely short optical impulses at different points of time after their excitation.