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An exhibit at Stanford Libraries presents 100 years of Baltic history

Estonian World / April 10, 2018

A new exhibit at Stanford Libraries, called “The Baltic Way”, aims to tell the complicated history of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 20th century and considers the countries’ prospects and challenges in the 21st. The exhibit, presented in partnership with the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and Stanford Libraries, will open on 10 May […]

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Estonia ranks fifth in Europe in media literacy – analysis

Sten Hankewitz / April 3, 2018

According to a recent analysis by the Bulgaria-based Open Society Institute, Estonia ranks fifth in Europe in media literacy. The institute says in its study that the best equipped countries to resist the post-truth, fake news and their ramifications are the Northwestern European countries – ie the Scandinavian ones, the Netherlands as well as Estonia

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The government is to give 100,000 Estonians information about their genetic risks

Silver Tambur / March 18, 2018

The Estonian government will allocate €5 million to a development project that aims to collect the genetic data of 100,000 people and integrate it into everyday medical practice by giving people feedback of their personal genetic risks. The general purpose of the project is to boost the development of personalised medicine in Estonia, the country’s

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Stanford to host a roundtable featuring Baltic foreign ministers and professor Anna Grzymala-Busse

Estonian World / March 14, 2018

On 1 June, the Stanford University Libraries will hold a roundtable featuring Baltic foreign ministers and political scientist Anna Grzymala-Busse as part of the 2018 AABS Conference at Stanford University. The roundtable is titled “Baltic exceptionalism?” and it’s featuring Sven Mikser, the foreign minister of Estonia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, his Latvian colleague, and Linas Linkevičius, the

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The University of Tartu represented with 18 subjects in global rankings

Estonian World / March 14, 2018

The latest QS World University Rankings includes 18 subjects taught at the University of Tartu, five more than in 2017. To compile the rankings, the international consulting company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) gathers information on 4,000 universities all over the world and ranks just a small part of them. The new subjects of the University of

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Estonia has secret underground rivers

Estonian World / February 16, 2018

In the old Estonian myths, there are stories about aquatic birds and even cattle being carried underground by streams; Oliver Koit, a researcher at the Tallinn University, says that secret rivers do exist in Estonia. How many secret underground rivers are there in Estonia? Are there secret rivers with a bigger flow rate than “regular”

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Personal health and fitness: The time for uprising is here

Ragnar Viir / February 12, 2018

There is a worldwide epidemic of sedentarism – in countries throughout the world, particularly in the developed nations, we simply spend too much time sitting and not enough time on our feet; Dr Ragnar Viir calls Estonians to rise up. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall –

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University of Tartu biologists make an important Alzheimer’s discovery

Estonian World / January 16, 2018

Cooperation between researchers in the United States and at the University of Tartu in Estonia helps discover changes in brain tissue that are associated with the very early stages of dementia. The cause of nearly half of all cases of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. It is estimated that 47 million people are suffering globally from

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The Stanford University Libraries to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Baltic republics

Estonian World / January 16, 2018

The Stanford University Libraries will be hosting a conference at Stanford University that will celebrate two important milestones – the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) and the 100th anniversary of independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The 2018 AABS conference at Stanford University: The 100th

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An Estonian university opens an IT curriculum in English for expats

Silver Tambur / January 9, 2018

From February 2018, foreigners and expats living in Estonia can study information technology (IT) in English on the undergraduate level for the first time. The curriculum, Software Development and Entrepreneurship, is focused on the skills Estonian IT companies are looking for. The new initiative comes about as the Estonian students’ numbers are not substantial enough to

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