Topic: international

Our revamped English-language Philosophy Master's programme opens for admissions in January 2025. The updated programme equips students to address today’s global challenges – climate change, ageing populations, technological automation, and more - through well-founded philosophical reasoning and defensible solutions. Starting in 2026, the programme will be renamed Philosophy in Practice.

Speaker application is open until April 1 for TEDxUniversity of Tartu.

At the beginning of 2026, a new scholarly edited volume on truthfulness in transmedia, „Devised Truths and the Transmedial Construction of Worlds“, was published. One of its editors is Elin Sütiste, Associate Professor at the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu.

On 9 March, an international workshop entitled „Animal Ethics at the Boundaries of the Human: Moral Status and Normative Authority“ will take place at the University of Tartu (Jakobi 2–336, Tartu). The workshop will focus on current issues in animal ethics and will be conducted in English.

25. veebruaril toob mini-töötuba „Agentsus, tunnetus ja sotsiaalne struktuur“ kokku Tartu ja Soome filosoofid, et uurida, kuidas tunnetuslikud võimed ja sotsiaalsed tingimused kujundavad individuaalset toimevõimet. Teoreetilised ettekanded arutlevad enesekontrolli ja mälu üle ning poliitilised ja ajaloolised juhtumiuuringud käsitlevad kodakondsusetust ja vastupanu riigivõimule.

Applications are now open for the international master’s programmes in Semiotics and in Philosophy in Practice at the University of Tartu. Prospective students can apply until 15 March. Interested applicants are also warmly invited to our virtual open day on 15 January, where you can learn more about the programmes, admissions, and studying in Tartu.

Are you considering applying to one of our international master's programmes in 2026? If so, join us online for the Virtual Open Day 2026 on 15 January at 12:00 (GMT+2) – no matter where in the world you are!

On 20 November 2025 was published the edited volume Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation, edited by Vasso Giannakopoulou (University of Cyprus) and Elin Sütiste (University of Tartu). The book was released by John Benjamins Publishing Company.

All full-time students of the University of Tartu, the University of Latvia and Vilnius University may apply for the 2,000-euro scholarship if their proficiency in one of the Baltic countries’ languages is at least at C1 level and in the other two languages at least at A2 level. Visiting international students who study at one of the three universities in both semesters of this academic year may also apply.