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Estonia’s first satellite brings a contract for space cameras

Silver Tambur / December 21, 2016

ESTCube-1, Estonia’s first satellite, took images of such excellent quality that the Tartu-based researchers are getting their first orders from the space industry. Estonia conducted its first space mission in April 2013, when a tiny one-kilogramme satellite, called ESTCube-1, was rocketed off to orbit the Earth from the European Space Agency’s launch site in French […]

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Estonian startup honours Albert Einstein with a large spray-printed mural

Silver Tambur / December 5, 2016

A Tartu-based startup, SprayPrinter, that produces wireless devices that deliver photos on the wall via a mobile app, paid tribute to Albert Einstein by spraying his iconic headshot onto the wall of a four-storey office building. The painting was created with the “very first prototype of the company’s handheld second product, SprayPrinter Mural”, Aet Rebane,

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Startup day in Tartu invites everyone to start a business

Estonian World / November 16, 2016

Over 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, students and scientists will come together and more than 40 speakers will discuss successful business models at the first international business festival in Tartu, the second largest town in Estonia. While most of the startup community in Estonia is operating in Tallinn, the scene in Tartu is bubbling with fresh energy

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From Silicon Valley to Tartu to study and build an IT company

Chris Willmore / October 7, 2016

American Chris Willmore quit his job at Yahoo! and came to live and work in Tartu, the second largest town in Estonia. How and why? I am an American who grew up in sunny California. I studied computer science at the University of California in Berkeley, one of the top-ranked programmes in the world. After graduation, I

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The Estonian National Museum opens in Tartu

Helen Wright / September 30, 2016

It’s been a long wait – 107 years, to be exact – but Estonia has finally opened its first national museum dedicated to the history, life and traditions of Estonians and other Finno-Ugric peoples. Built on the edge of Tartu on an abandoned Soviet airfield the Estonian National Museum, or Eesti Rahva Muuseum, will open to

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Tartu University achieves a new record in the world rankings

Silver Tambur / September 7, 2016

According to one of the most important higher education lists, the QS World University Rankings, the University of Tartu (UT) now holds the highest position ever. The university’s position in the ranking has improved from 501 in 2012 to 347 in 2016. In the process of preparing the ranking list, the QS takes into account a survey

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The first internet of things lab in the Baltics opened at the University of Tartu

Silver Tambur / March 10, 2016

Objects’ skill to communicate is the future direction in technology and for developing this, the University of Tartu (UT) and communication company Telia Eesti have opened Estonia’s first internet of things lab. A unique laboratory in Estonia and the Baltic states, it is furnished as a smart home and smart office that can be controlled

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Tartu named a UNESCO City of Literature

Silver Tambur / December 15, 2015

The second largest Estonian town, Tartu, has been accepted to UNESCO’s network of creative cities and has been awarded the title of the international City of Literature. Several years ago, Tartu’s literary circles had suggested it should apply for membership in UNESCO’s network of creative cities and for the City of Literature title. This summer, Tartu

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Trolls and open-source editing: the Wikimedia Conference 2015 in Tartu

Erin Crouch / December 10, 2015

An unlimited number of monkeys typing on an unlimited number of keyboards will eventually re-write the works of Shakespeare, goes the infinite monkey theorem. An untested original corollary to this theorem, newly created by the author of this piece: if a large number of people make a large number of edits to a large number

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Tartu University opens its new, modern physics building

Silver Tambur / August 26, 2014

On 25 August, the University of Tartu opened its new modern building of the Institute of Physics, called Physicum, situated at the university’s Maarjamõisa science campus. The building of approximately 13,000 square metres provides contemporary facilities for research in physics, materials science and nanotechnology. “The new building of the Institute of Physics brings under one

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