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This week, the Digital Cleanup Week takes place at the university. Its aim is to declutter one’s personal or the unit’s digital life, and move in small but effective steps towards a greener university. The Digital CleanUp Week ends on 29 January, the nationwide Digital Cleanup Day.

The first edition of the Delta X student competition initiated by the University of Tartu reaches its final on 27 January. From among nearly one hundred submitted solutions, the best will be decided in four categories. The Delta X competition aims to give secondary school and university students an opportunity to test their skills and apply their acquired knowledge in practice. There are four categories: robotics, digital solutions, business models and mathematics. More than one hundred students from all across Estonia will take part in the final.

Due to the state of emergency declared by the government of Estonia, the University of Tartu cancels face-to-face classes from today to 1 May 2020. Instead, e-learning and other forms of distance learning will be used. Students who stay in residence halls are recommended to return home, if possible.

The University of Tartu Futulab, a platform for mediation of internships, enables organisations and the university alumni to find motivated interns and employees from among more than 13,600 students.

University of Tartu researchers Viia Kõiv, Tanel Tenson and Elin Org have found a new way to improve the health of the immune and nervous system and support the metabolism.

The University of Tartu Mentoring Programme is open for applications. The programme, created for the students and alumni of the University of Tartu, was first introduced in 2017 and is now for the first time also available for international students and alumni.

Aune Valk, University of Tartu Vice Rector for Academic Affairs

Institute of Technology Deadline: 04.02.2021 Duties and responsibilities Main expected contribution: Provide the competence and understanding of biomedical systems to allow the incorporation and synergy of the nanomaterials (computational and experimental) branches of MATTER into biomedical applications.

After having received the regulation of the government of Estonia, and discussing with the Rector’s Office the exceptional situations in which it is very difficult to apply distance learning, we now add more detailed information to the message sent on Wednesday. These guidelines will be in force until the beginning of the spring semester.

Everyone, who remembers the biology lessons, knows the cell division is an important process is one of the most important processes and applies to the whole level of the organism. Life starts from a single cell that divides a large amount of times and creates a whole living organism. The cell division is the most fundamental process of the nature that takes place with the utmost precision. Mistakes in that could lead to the emerging of diseases such as tumors or cancer.

In the newly published ranking list of universities from emerging Europe and Central Asia, the University of Tartu has reached the second place, which is also the highest among Estonian universities.

The University of Tartu and SelfDiagnostics have developed a SARS-CoV-2 rapid molecular test that allows detecting the viral RNA at a lower price and a greater resource efficiency. The test allows identifying infection on the spot in less than an hour. The coronavirus pandemic has claimed over a million lives and the number of infected people is growing every day. This also creates the need for more testing and places a heavy burden on the central testing system.

The government of Estonia decided today that as of 14 December, all educational institutions, including universities, will be closed. Therefore, the university leaders decided that no classroom studies are conducted at the University of Tartu at least until the spring semester.

On Tuesday, 1 December, the university members celebrate the 101st anniversary of Estonia's national university.

So far, the university has favoured preferring face-to-face learning to distance learning. However, as the coronavirus infection rate is increasing, the Rector’s Office decided at its today’s meeting that it is reasonable to rapidly reorganise studies wherever possible to safeguard the health of all university members.

View the video address of Rector Toomas Asser focusing on coronavirus prevention at the university on UTTV and read revised coronavirus guidelines at the university. This week the Government of Estonia announced new coronavirus measures and based on the government’s recommendations, members of the UT Rector’s Office have laid down the following guidelines.

On November 18th, 2020, the Council of the University of Tartu, Institute of Technology re-elected Reet Kurg as a director of the Institute for 2021 to 2023. According to Reet Kurg, within the last three years, the biggest achievements are the growth both of the staff and research projects by a third. “We have made a major contribution to the very important research on the coronavirus. Our Professor Tanel Tenson has successfully started a monitoring project from the waste water.

The use of antibiotics in Estonia needs better regulation to prevent the formation of treatment-resistant microbes. Based on their study, the University of Tartu researchers recommend paying attention to regular updating of national treatment guidelines and to doctors’ continuing education opportunities, as well as creating a surveillance and feedback system for prescribing antibacterial therapy.

Live microbial cells can be used as a tool, which gives information on chemical or physical processes. At the University of Tartu, bacterial cells are being developed, which can be used to study the effect of antibiotics on the bacteria in the body during infection.