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From the academic year of 2013/2014 the Master’s Course of information work in organisation, as well as the curricula of librarianship and information environments, and information and document management of the professional higher education are under the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education.

As every year you can meet, hear and see UT Viljandi Culture Academy at Martin Markkinat in Helsinki Kaapelitehdas 24-25 Nov 2012. Thoruhgout two day from 10 AM-4PM our students of jazz and traditional music perform at every full hour in Viljandi Hall. This year the academy is represented by three student groups:

On 22nd November a concert of Estonian musicians and a premiere for documentary "Colours of Islands" will be held in the Berliner Philharmonie. At the concert "...So close... so far... real, but imaginable" ("… So Nah… So Fern… Real als auch Imaginär") Villu Veski, Taavo Remmel and Tiit Kalluste, the teachers of Viljandi Culture Academy music department perform.

Viljandi Culture Academy's three best lecturers based on student evaluation and feedback are: Jana Karilaid, Culture Education department, lecturer of organisational studies; Regina Lapp, Information Studies department, project manager; Holger Rajavee, Performing Arts department, lecturer of history of arts and culture.

UT Viljandi Culture Academy awaits musicians to attend a competition held in 12th April in Viljandi Traditional Music Centre. The competition happens for 10th time.

UT Viljandi Culture Academy's holiday greeting is a joyful video. The greeting was filmed in the end of November with help of employees and students alike. The video was made by: Daisy Estam, Javer Jaanus, Valeria Januškevitš, Oliver Kivimäe, Merilyn Koik, Aavo Kubja, Kristlin Kunnus, Kaarel Kuusk, Hannele Känd, Lembe Lahtmaa, Regina Lapp, Ilmar Lehtpere, Kalmer Liimets, Liisa Liksor, Ave Matsin, Kadi Mitt, Maarja Noorväli, Ain Nuija, Maarja Padari, Karin Saarepuu, Are Tints, Tauno Uibo and the 3D-Lab.

From January 14th - 19th 2013 UT Viljandi Culture Academy’s Performing Arts Department hosts exchange students from different theatre schools of Nordic and Baltic Countries. Five foreign students are coming from Iceland Academy of Arts, Tampere University, Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, The Nord-Trøndelag University College and The Danish National School of Performing Arts. At the same time 8 academy’s theatrical studies students go to different theatre schools in Tampere, Copenhagen, Odense, Reykjavik, Stockholm and Nord-Trøndelag.

School Jazz=Jazz School is a 3-day workshop that brings together young jazz music pupils from different Estonian Music Schools as well professional musicians offering jazz and rhythm music training and joint jamming sessions. Usually 60-80 pupils participate every year. This time the workshop took place for 9th time.

UT Viljandi Culture Academy released its page on social media site Facebook today. The page is for everyone interested, especially for our partners and alumni who speak English. The page will feature both official news and activities and snippets from the daily life of the academy. Check out and join the page here.

Estonian Folk Orchestra (EFO) that is formed of traditional music students of the Univesity of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy and Estonian Music and Theatre Academy have travelled to Sweden for a week to tour in Stockholm and Umeå and to record album material. Their first performance is on 18th February on board of the Baltic Queen ferry.

Tomorrow starts in Tallinn an international music industry event Tallinn Music Week April 4th- 6th 2013 that is one of the biggest indoor festivals and a music industry conference in the Baltic region that started out in 2009. There are also 16 performers from the academy among 233 international and national artists who perform at the 3-day festival that presents music from folk and jazz to punk and electro, from classical music to metal and anything in between.

On March 27th Estonian Theatre Union will proclaim Estonian Theatre Awards at Endla Theatre in Pärnu. There are many alumni from the Performing Arts Department of the academy among the nominees. List of on our alumni among nominees for Estonian Theatre Award: Production of the Year: „Carrmen!“ by Vanemuine Theatre - choreographer and director Ruslan Stepanov (alumnus of Dance Arts, 2002).

In last one and a half week academy’s students and teachers have been participating in two Erasmus Intensive projects (IP). Simultaneous intensive study weeks have been taken place at Chester University in UK and at Salzburg University of Applied Science in Austria.

In the early morning of March 19, seven jazz-music students along with their professor Ain Agan will head to St.Pteresburg, Russia, to perform a joint-concert with the students of St.Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. The idea of this concert-trip comes from the professor Ain Agan. According to him it’s necessary for the students of UT Viljandi Culture Academy to broaden their musical network and to meet the students from another music school.

On 12th April the last Music Triad Young Musician Competition was held in Viljandi. The grand prix and Audience Favourite went to saxophonist Taavi Toomsalu.

From 31st May to 3rd June 2014 a children’s theatre festival SUMIN takes place in Viljandi, Estonia. This festival gathers together Nordic and Baltic theatre schools. The festival is looking for its design. Designers are required to come up with the design concept of the festival as well as the logo. These will be used on the festival poster, programme brochure, website (Edicy platform) and other printed materials. Requirements:

Figures released on August 8 reveal that more than 3 million students have benefitted from EU Erasmus grants since the exchange scheme's launch in 1987. To mark the milestone, the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) invited students from the 2012-2013 intake to apply to represent the 3 millionth Erasmus student. 1 800 students applied and, from among them, ESN and the European Commission selected one per country, choosing those whose stories highlighted the breadth of possibilities offered by the programme and its impact.

Submission of documents for admission to Tartu University starts on St John’s Day Documents can be submitted from 24 June to 7 July in Application and admission systems SAIS and 1-7 July in the main building of the Viljandi Culture Academy. The following curricula are opened for the next academic year in the Culture Academy: