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Friday, December 1 2017 marks the 98th birthday of the Estonia’s national university in Tartu. To celebrate the event, several events take place during the week-long celebrations – honorary doctorates and doctorates are conferred, the University’s honorary member named and the laurate of The University of Tartu Award for Contribution to Estonian National Identity named.

From February 9-11 University of Tartu Viljandi Culture academy is organizing its second International Winter academy at a cosy forest cottage in Männiku. During three days participants can discover Estonia’s cultural spirit and passion. We welcome all foreigners, doesn’t matter if you have been here for 20 years or have just arrived and need answers to most burning questions about Estonia and Estonians.

Meelis Luht, former management board member of Eesti Meedia Group, will start work as the Director of Administration of the University of Tartu on 21 August. Rector Volli Kalm said the new director of administration has been in charge of several different areas of activity in his career and is a top leader with international work experience. We can see his capability as well as his desire and ambition to actively contribute to the implementation of the university’s development goals.

On 26 October at 16:15, UT Professor of Jazz Music Iñaki Sandoval will deliver his inaugural lecture on the influences of Impressionism in jazz harmony. The lecture is in English and is held in the assembly hall of the University of Tartu.

Yesterday was the official opening event for the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy Centre for Arts. The centre will draw the competence of the whole faculty into one unit and coordinate arts studies in the university. The centre’s location in Tartu allows the students there the possibility to take part in the courses usually offered at Viljandi Culture Academy. Oftentimes students in Tartu were not able to participate because of the physical distance.

On 4 September, the centre for arts of Viljandi Culture Academy was opened in the old anatomical theatre of the University of Tartu. The centre will draw the competence of the whole faculty into one unit and coordinate arts studies in the university. The centre offers interesting subjects and continuing education courses for all interested, including people from outside the university.

The new academic year at University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy will start with the opening ceremony at the Estonian Traditional Music Center in Viljandi on Monday, September 4 at 12.00pm. At 5.30pm same day we are opening a new Viljandi Culture Academy unit in Tartu - The Centre for Arts, in the Old Anatomical Theatre.

On 4 September 2017, Viljandi Culture Academy opens the Centre for Arts in Tartu, in which more than 35 arts courses are offered for all students, teaching staff members and employees of the University of Tartu, enabling them to acquire new knowledge and skills and fully develop their creativity.

Second year, the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy is represented at Viljandi Folk Music Festival with area of its own – the Culture Nest is open to guests in the courtyard of the Museum of Viljandi on Friday and Saturday at 12.00-18.00. The Culture Nest features: Children plays by our theatre studies’ students and workshops for children by culture education department Jew’s harp workshop by the music department and bracelet workshops by the native crafts department

This year, a total of 46 young people with Estonian roots from 13 different countries are taking part in a summer camp Lõimeleer which dedicated to Estonian native culture. University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy is organizing this kind of camp week for the second year and the interest was twice as high compared to last year, therefor the group was divided into two. The camps are located in Tääksi village and Abja parish, Viljandi County.

IASJ annual jazz meeting will be held in Viljandi from July 2-7 2018. The event will bring together more than one hundred jazz students, musicians and teachers from all around the world. Tuulike Kivestu, Vice Director for Academic Affairs and Development at Viljandi Culture Academy proudly accepted the official flag of the organisation and with that the hosting torch was officially passed from Siena, Italy to Viljandi, Estonia.

This year’s Craft Camp takes place – for the forth time – during 9-15 July in Olustvere, Viljandi Country, Estonia. More than 70 people from 17 different countries come together to learn new skills in a variety of handicraft workshops.

The University of Tartu has the largest number of graduates in Estonia—an estimated of 70 000 graduates. Aiming to bring the alumni community closer together, link them more to the university, develop mutual communication and professional cooperation, the University of Tartu launched a network for its alumni (www.utalumni.ee), novel in Estonia as well as Europe, the like of which is also used by the University of Oxford.

The 65th anniversary of the academy is celebrated with an Alumni Day on 20 May 2017. The day starts with a picnic, followed by a procession to the Ugala theatre, where a concert-performance and the presentation of an anniversary publication takes place. On the Alumni Day, several exhibitions are opened, the Culture Academy's academic buildings can be visited and in the main building of the academy, the party with its exciting programme lasts until early hours.

In September a new centre for arts will be opened in the Old Anatomical Theatre of the University of Tartu. The centre will draw the competence of the whole faculty into one unit and coordinate arts studies in the university.

On Thursday, November 23 Viljandi Culture Academy hosted a delegation from Strasen, Moldova. The county government members from Moldova were accompanied by Viljandi county governor Mr. Erich Palm and public relations and internal communications adviser Ms. Helena Tiivel.

University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy will organize its first ever International Winter Academy from January 30 until February 2, 2017.

University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy will organize its first ever International Winter Academy from January 30 until February 2, 2017.

Iñaki Sandoval, director of UT Viljandi Culture Academy, will give a public lecture, which will be part of the evaluation for the position of jazz music professor. The lecture titled „Effective habits of practice for jazz musicians“ takes place on Monday, November 7 at 14.00 in the Music House’s Chamber Hall. The lecture will be live streamed and also be re-watched on UTTV

Professionals of youth work from Estonia, Finland and Great Britain met to exchange best practices in the framework of a common project “Student’s Practice Management in Youth Work Curricula: Exchange of Best Practices”