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cooperation with the Universidad de Lusofona (Portugal) and Edin- burgh Napier (Scotland) universities.
An International Week “Improving the quality of outgoing stu- dent mobility” was organised for foreign Erasmus partners during the week of 5-9 May. There were 18 participants from nine countries. Each participant introduced development activities of their home university relating to international mobility and they in turn were fa- miliarized with the services offered by Tallinn University, the Estoni- an language and culture. Also an international seminar investigating the future of education took place entitled “International Education. Future. Media. Image”.
A total of 363 people from 54 countries participated in the Tal- linn Summer School. For the first time there were participants from Azerbaijan, Ghana, Singapore and Tanzania. Marketing activity, which
included participation in study fairs in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Riga and Vilnius, Peking and Shanghai, Istanbul and Ankara, played an important part in achieving the number of participants. The Sum- mer School programme included several language courses for learn- ing Estonian, Russian, English and Chinese, creative workshops and different courses from the field of social sciences and humanities (four courses) and from the field of IT and natural sciences (three courses). For the first time, a course “Doctoral Summer School in Curriculum Studies” took place in the field of educational sciences.
4.7 ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL EVENTS
In 2014, TU academic units organised and co-organised 34 interna- tional and 15 national conferences and symposia, and 75 national and 36 international seminars or round tables, as well as research events within the university research seminar series. Public lectures, book presentations and journal introductions, presentations of pro- ject results, thematic days, public discussion and discussion circles etc. were also organised.
Most institutes also conducted a more or less regular series of seminars. The Institute of History organised seminars in two fields: the series of the seminars in Centre for Medieval Studies (3 seminars) and the series of seminars in the Estonian Centre for Environmental History (6 seminars). Every Friday, an open series of seminars that could also be followed on the Internet, took place in the Institute of Ecology (27 seminars). The Institute of Informatics also had its research seminar series (12 seminars); they also participated in or- ganising the events of the seminar series organised by EstCHI for in- teraction design specialists and other interested people. A total of 18 events took place in the series of seminars in the Estonian Institute of
Humanities (EHI), “Humankind”, which centralises the representa- tives of anthropology and related fields. EHI also organised a research seminar “Memory and Art” (9 events) and the summer symposium series of EHI Student Council (a total of three events). Two series of lectures were conducted in the Institute of Health Sciences and Sports in 2014: “Train consciously” together with practical lessons and “The University of Health and Moving”.
From 31 July to 3 August, the annual conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists took place in Tallinn, attended by 1,200 participants, making it the biggest research conference in
Estonia at that time. The department of social and cultural anthro- pology of the TU Estonian Institute of Humanities was one of the main organisers.
The festival of creative theses, KIMP Fest’14, at the Institute of Fine Arts took place on the university campus from 24 April to 20 May. During the festival, the Ursa building was covered in wall paint- ings, 10 performance nights took place, five exhibitions of contempo- rary art were opened, seven free workshops were organised (drafting nudes under supervision of recognized artists, producing metal jewel- lery, a rag game, etc.), four concerts of classical and pop music and one fashion show were all held.
The newest creation of the Baltic Film and Media School was screened in the TU SuperNova cinema hall from 31 March to 5 April. The culmination of the week was a ceremony, in which this year´s student film prizes BoBs were awarded. The 15th Sleepwalkers fes- tival that took place from 18 -22 November is a sub-festival of the Black Nights Film Festival with a centre located in the BFM building and the SuperNova cinema on the TU campus.
In 2014, Tallinn University cultural groups delivered a total of 38 concerts, 16 performances took place and 17 exhibitions were organised by academic units. Some of the more fascinating cultural events that deserve mentioning are: a series of events introducing the Finno-Ugric language relatives entitled “S-ugrisugulased. Mur- mar-mor” were organised in cooperation of the Estonian Institute of Humanities and the Institute of Estonian Language and Culture (5events); the field trip (organised by the CIE) to the Centre of In- novation in Education by the Riigikogu´s cultural committee on the topic “Conclusions of the Estonian results of PISA 2012 and PIAAC 2011-202 studies”; a public lecture at TU by Anders Fogh Rasmus- sen, Secretary General of NATO; a debate by European Parliament candidates at TU, headed by the Institute of Communication; a film night and discussion on the topic of climate changes organised by the Institute of Ecology within the framework of the Tallinn University Green week; Seniors´ Mud Day organised by the TERE Competence Centre operating at Haapsalu College, and many others.
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