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International Conference «Mires and Wilderness» will be held in Tartu on April 18th – 20th in the Conference Hall of the Library of Tartu University (W.Struwe 1).

The Committee of the Regions of the European Union (CoR) is organising an annual doctoral thesis competition on local and regional authorities in the European Union.

BOVA course «Renewable Energy Technologies» (4,5 ECTS points)  will take place on April 4-8 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The aim of the course is to: - understand the specifics of large-scale landscape design - differentiate the empirical, hermeneutical and the design approaches, assign each one to the different analyse questions - become acquainted with the specific landscape structure elements and typologies on the large scale (design repertoire) and concerning the didactic requirements - learn a for-step-strategy “design analyses - experimental analysis - discourse - concept design” - abductive strategies to encourage creativity, ideas and conceptual consequence.

The conference «7th Framework Program – looking into the future» will take place on March 10th in Nordic Hotel Forum (Viru väljak 3).

BOVA course "Forest Tree Breeding and Adaptation"  to be held on March 21-25, 2011. The course will start in Lithuania and continue in Latvia. This course is worked out by the joint teaching team from Baltic and Nordic universities and is intended to give to interested students the best knowledge and practice from different countries point of view in forest tree breeding and adaptation. 

BOVA course «Animal Welfare Assessment» to take place in Tartu  on March 7-11. The course aims to provide students with the confidence and competence to assess the welfare of animals kept  by humans; as pets, in rescue centers, for display, for research and for food production.

Ülo Niinemets from Eesti Maaülikool, the Estonian University of Life Sciences together with Spanish colleagues proposes a new hypothesis explaining the movement of biomes (macroecosystems) under globally changing climate. 

Eesti Maaülikool, Estonian University of Life Sciences is starting an English-language Master's programme for landscape architecture next academic year.