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The Space Travel blog aims to provide insight into the public and private space ventures in Estonia and the neighbouring countries.

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.

The latest results of the waste water study led by the University of Tartu show that the amount of coronavirus in waste water samples has further decreased over the last week. Only Ida-Viru County and southern Estonia show higher readings than the index characterising the average situation in Estonia.

People have been living with microbes for millions of years. But it is only in recent years that we have begun to discover the secrets of microbial biodiversity, as these species invisible to the naked eye can be successfully identified in nature only by latest molecular methods.

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 latest results of the study led by the University of Tartu confirm a decrease in coronavirus amounts in waste water all over Estonia. There are no very large virus amounts in any settlement.

The newest results of the waste water monitoring survey led by the University of Tartu show a continuing decrease in the coronavirus amount in wastewater. Only the results of Ida-Viru County considerably differ from the general picture: the virus level there is five times higher than the average in Estonia.

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!

May is orienteering month at the university. In addition to the course compiled by the university museum, the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology has also planned an orienteering course. The institute invites its employees, students, alumni, friends and all the others, to participate, whether on their own, with colleagues, friends or family members. The course is open from 26 May to 1 June. The Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology was founded 31 years ago on June 1st.

The newest results of the waste water monitoring study led by the University of Tartu show a stable yet very slow decrease in the coronavirus levels. There are fewer samples with very high levels of virus, but the virus has not completely disappeared from any region.

This week’s results of the waste water monitoring study led by the University of Tartu show a decrease in coronavirus levels. The results of the analysis show that in several Estonian settlements, the concentration of virus in waste water is back to a low level. At the same time, researchers acknowledge that the amount of virus in the waste water is still considerable. The situation is particularly worrying in some of the larger towns in Ida-Viru County, where the amount of virus in waste water continues to be above the Estonian average.

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.

Warmer weather has finally made the cowslips bloom in Estonia, which is not just lovely to see but also of great interest to researchers. This spring, the citizen-science campaign “Estonia is looking for cowslips” launched in 2019 has spread throughout Europe. Led by researchers of the University of Tartu, the cowslip team now includes partners from 30 countries. Everyone is welcome to participate in the observations.

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.

This week’s results of the wastewater analysis led by the University of Tartu show an increase in coronavirus levels. Samples with high virus concentration have been collected all over Estonia, which is why precautions to prevent the spread of the virus must be taken very seriously everywhere.

This week’s results of the waste water analysis led by the University of Tartu indicate that the concentration of coronavirus in waste water has remained rather stable over the past few weeks. Compared to the modest decrease in the Estonian average indicators, Harju County stands out by a somewhat quicker decrease in coronavirus level in the waste water.

The European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) in Estonia was officially launched on 3 March 2021. The goal of ESERO is to support STEM studies in primary and secondary schools by using space as a context. ESERO Estonia, hosted by Tartu Observatory, joins European Space Agency's (ESA) growing ESERO network, currently active in 18 other ESA Member States.

Coronavirus concentration in wastewater has decreased to a moderate level in many regions in Estonia. The number of samples with very high concentration has dropped by a third in a week.

According to the recently updated Web of Science citations database, the University of Tartu now also ranks in the one percent of the world’s most highly cited research institutions in the field of materials science. This is the thirteenth field of research in which the University of Tartu belongs among the top institutions.

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.