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TEDxTallinn 2014 – five talks that speak the world about Estonians

Henrik Ehte / July 28, 2014

TEDxTallinn is an inspirational conference, which presents exceptional speakers from different fields of life: fanatical devotees, thinkers, creators, executors – people with ideas that are worth sharing. Henrik Ehte, the Editor-in-Chief of The Baltic Scene, attended the 2014 conference and shares his impressions. I started preparing for an inspiring day at TEDxTallinn by not having […]

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Cracking the code – learning Estonian in Estonia

Claire Millard / April 2, 2014

Claire Millard, a Brit living in Tallinn, is trying to crack the code – learn Estonian in Estonia. As a teenager I travelled and lived abroad with nothing more than a fifty-five-litre backpack and the invincible confidence of youth. The desire to explore and experience never left, and when, fifteen years, one husband and two

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University of Tartu launches a social media hub

Estonian World / March 19, 2014

The University of Tartu’s social media hub allows to follow the university’s events via its posts in social media. Created on the example of US universities MIT, Hamilton and Harvard, the environment currently brings together around 100 social media accounts linked to the university. “By implementing a social media hub we make information more compact

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Performance of Estonian students among world’s best – PISA study

Estonian World / December 6, 2013

The scholastic performance of Estonian 15-year-old students is among the best in the world and Europe, results of the international worldwide study Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) show. In science Estonia shares the first and second place in Europe with Finland, and among the 65 countries surveyed around the world, Estonian students placed between

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University of Tartu researchers receive a European award

Estonian World / November 19, 2013

Young researchers Karlis Zalite, Kaupo Voormansik and Kalev Koppel from the University of Tartu received the Copernicus Masters innovation competition DLR Environmental Challenge award with their project, “Urban Analyser – Your City Development Tool”. The winning project allows people to see population changes, the number of new buildings, built-up area animations with fine time-steps and

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