News from Estonia

A masters student at the Estonian Academy of Arts has won the best animation award at the Palm Springs International Animation Festival. "You Are Not a Kiwi" created using watercolors by Maria Savaleva premiered in the festival's main program and won in the watercolor-animation category. The film deals with integration...

Žorik was mentioned in the article describing the Kassi/abi cat shelter calender on this page two weeks ago.  The legendary, elderly (14+ year-old), ailing Kalamaja neighborhood lind/prii (outlaw, "bird free", free as a bird), as he is known, was safely retired to an outdoor enclosure in the countryside this past...

Tallinn, Estonia, January 11, 2021 – Estonian company Crystalspace, partnered with the University of Tartu's Tartu Observatory and Krakul, has been selected by Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, to build two cameras that will act as a stereo pair to monitor the...

The National Library of Estonia is holding an exhibition of textbooks used for studying in the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s, which are on display for the first time The oldest textbook is from the year 1515 and additionally, studying tools used during that time can also be viewed. The "ABC...

"Tartu the Christmas City" is the university city's other, current claim to fame. Its Town Hall Square is full of glass pavilions, including one from which writers broadcast poetry online and another housing happy chickens that lay Christmas eggs. But the crowning glory of this year's Village of Light is...

Tartu's "success story" at reducing car traffic, noise and air pollution in the city center has been nominated for an international award at the Green Destinations Stories Awards. In October, Tartu entered the Sustainable TOP 100 Destinations list of the international sustainable tourism development organization Green Destinations. It submitted its...

Kristjan Järvi, an internationally well known charismatic Estonian musician and conductor (familiar to Estonians in the USA as he, his brother Paavo and their father Neeme Järvi have guest conducted several USA symphony orchestras, and Kristjan co-founded the New York based classical hip-hop-jazz group Absolute Ensemble),  is featured in a...

  A monument marking the boundary where Saaremaa islanders begin to pronounce the unique Estonian vowel "Õ" as "Ö" was unveiled this past week.   The challenge of having to cut through bureaucratic red tape was worth it, since the islanders now have a new attraction that is both deeply...

Estonian American National Council (EANC) leadership recently took part in a video conference with the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Tallinn, Brian Roraff.    EANC President Marju Rink-Abel and Vice President Mai-Liis Bartling represented EANC, with Washington, DC Director Karin Shuey and Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) Managing Director Karl...

  As we celebrate International Education Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week, we'd like to introduce to  you an exchange alumni and entrepreneur, Triin!   She studied in the U.S. in 2015 in the Digital Communication Network program. While in the U.S., Triin wanted to understand how to utilize digital tools...