Jakobi 2, III korrus, ruumid 302-337
51005 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5314

Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics

Jakobi 2, III korrus, ruumid 302-337
51005 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5314

of the Institute: [email protected].
of the Institute (+372) 737 5314

Department of Philosophy
[email protected]

(+372) 737 5314, library (+372) 737 5413

Administrative Offices: 316-319
Institute's Library: 329
Faculty Offices: 319–326, 328
Classrooms: 336 and 337

Department of Semiotics
[email protected]
(+372) 737 5933, library (+372) 737 5413

Administrative Offices: 316-319
Thomas A. Sebeok Memorial Library: 333
Institute's Library: 329
Faculty Offices: 302–304 and 307–314
Classrooms: 305 and 306

Centre for Ethics
eetikakeskus@ut.ee
+372 737 5427
Further contacts

Centre for Semiotic Applications
[email protected]
+372 520 8185

Bruno Mölder
Bruno Mölder
Dr. phil. (Philosophy)
Head of Institute
+372 737 6619
Jakobi 2–321

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Topics of research and supervision

Philosophy of mind in general and in particular:

  • Interpretivism in philosophy of mind
  • Mental fictionalism
  • Folk psychology and scientific study of the mind
  • Experience of time and the metaphysics of time
  • Understanding other people
  • Free will
Margot Must
MA (European Studies)
Marketing and Communications Specialist 0.9 p

Jakobi 2-319
Phone: +372 506 3686

Ruth Jürjo
Coordinator
+372 737 5314
Jakobi 2–315
Kadri Simm
Kadri Simm
PhD (Philosophy)
Head of Department

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Moral philosophy
  • Practical ethics, esp bioethics, medical ethics, ethical aspects of AI
  • Research ethics/integrity
  • Political philosophy, esp justice, feminist theories

Chair of History of Philosophy

Roomet Jakapi
Roomet Jakapi
PhD (Philosophy)
Head of Chair, Associate Professor of History of Philosophy
Jakobi 2–325

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Early Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology
  • Natural Philosophy and Theology in Early Modern Britain
  • Epistemology of Religion
  • Religious Pluralism
Riin Sirkel
Riin Sirkel
PhD (Philosophy)
Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy
Jakobi 2–325

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Topics of research and supervision

Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from metaphysics to ethics, and in particular:

  • Aristotle
  • The Stoics
  • Philosophy of the Ancient Greek Commentators (200–600 AD) – bridging Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Andrus Tool
Andrus Tool
PhD (Philosophy)
Lecturer in History of Philosophy 0.75 p
Jakobi 2-324

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Topics of research and supervision

  • History of Philosophy
  • Hermeneutics
Toomas Lott
Toomas Lott
PhD (Philosophy)
Research Fellow in History of Philosophy 0.2 p
Jakobi 2–325

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Topics of research and supervision

  • History of Philosophy (Ancient)
  • Epistemology
Gareth Hugh Paterson
MPhil (Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
Jakobi 2–325
Styliani Perikleous
MPhil (Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
Jakobi 2–321

Chair of Intellectual History

Pärtel Piirimäe
Pärtel Piirimäe
PhD (History)
Head of Chair, Professor of Intellectual History
Jakobi 2-324

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Topics of research and supervision

  • European and Estonian intellectual history
  • Early modern political thought and international thought
  • History of early modern international law
  • History of early modern natural law and moral philosophy
  • History of early modern propaganda
  • History of historiography
Meelis Friedenthal
Meelis Friedenthal
dr. theol.
Associate Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History 0.5 p
Jakobi 2–324

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Topics of research and supervision

  • History of European and Estonian intellectual history
  • History of theology and philosophy
  • History of universities, history of books, disputations, digital humanities
Eduard Parhomenko
Eduard Parhomenko
MA (Philosophy)
Junior Lecturer in History of Philosophy
Jakobi 2-324

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Kant and German Idealism
  • Phenomenology
  • Aesthetics and Phenomenological Approach to Art
  • Estonian Intellectual History and Philosophy
  • Soviet Philosophy
Juhan Hellerma
PhD (Philosophy)
Research Fellow in Intellectual History

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of History
Karin Kustassoo
Karin Kustassoo
PhD (Philosophy)
Visiting Research Fellow
Jakobi 2–323

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Martin Heidegger’s early philosophy
  • Phenomenology
  • Existentialism
Jaanus Sooväli
Jaanus Sooväli
PhD (Philosophy)
Research Fellow in Intellectual History
Jakobi 2-325

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Topics of research and supervision

  • History of Philosophy
  • History of Estonian Thought
  • 20th-Century Philosophy
Ove Averin
Ove Averin
MA (Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Programme Director
Jakobi 2–326

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Student disputations

  • History of Academia Gustaviana

Kaarina Rein
PhD (Anthropology of Religion)
Editor 0.2 p
Jakobi 2–324

Chair of Practical Philosophy

Kadri Simm
Kadri Simm
PhD (Philosophy)
Head of Chair, Professor of Practical Ethics
Jakobi 2–328

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Moral philosophy
  • Practical ethics, esp bioethics, medical ethics, ethical aspects of AI
  • Research ethics/integrity
  • Political philosophy, esp justice, feminist theories
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Margit Sutrop
Dr. phil. (Philosophy)
Professor of Practical Philosophy 0.5 p
+372 737 5327
+372 520 7183
Jakobi 2–332

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy of education
Siobhan Kattago
Siobhan Ann Kattago
PhD (Sociology)
Associate Professor of Political Philosophy
Jakobi 2–320

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Modernity and its discontents
  • History of political thought
  • Political philosophy of Hannah Arendt
  • Memory, history and tradition
  • Critical theory of the Frankfurt school
  • Political and social philosophy
  • Politics of memory
  • Representation and responsibility
Francesco Orsi
Francesco Orsi
PhD (Philosophy)
Associate Professor of Theoretical Ethics, Programme Director for Philosophy (MA)
Jakobi 2-326

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Ethics (utilitarianism, deontology etc)
  • Metaethics
  • History of ethics
  • Practical ethics
  • Ethics and philosophy of sexuality
  • Philosophy of action
Mats Volberg
Mats Volberg
PhD (Philosophy)
Lecturer in Practical Philosophy 0.2 p
Jakobi 2–326

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Political Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Education
Andrey Gavrilin
MA (Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
Jakobi 2-326
Emmi Jennina Kaaya
MA (Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy

Chair of Theoretical Philosophy

Bruno Mölder
Bruno Mölder
Dr. phil. (Philosophy)
Head of Chair, Professor of Philosophy of Mind
+372 737 6619
Jakobi 2–321

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Topics of research and supervision

Philosophy of mind in general and in particular:

  • Interpretivism in philosophy of mind
  • Mental fictionalism
  • Folk psychology and scientific study of the mind
  • Experience of time and the metaphysics of time
  • Understanding other people
  • Free will
Alexander Stewart Davies
Alexander Stewart Davies
PhD (Philosophy)
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language, Programme Director for Philosophy
Jakobi 2–319

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Philosophy of Language (e.g. applied, Estonian-related, social and political
  • Epistemology of Testimony (especially miscommunication)
Uku Tooming
Uku Tooming
PhD (Philosophy)
Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy
Jakobi 2–321

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Imagination
  • Desires
  • Epistemology of imagination and memory
  • Self-knowledge
  • Aesthetic normativity
  • Aesthetic experience
  • Pleasure
Simon Reginald Barker
PhD (Philosophy)
Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy 0.25 p
Jakobi 2–320
Vivian Puusepp
Vivian Puusepp
PhD (Philosophy)
Research Fellow in Theoretical Philosophy
Jakobi 2–328

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Philosophy of mind
  • Phenomenology
  • Social cognition
Martin Aher
PhD (Cognitive Science)
Visiting Research Fellow
Henrik Sova
PhD (Philosophy)
Visiting Research Fellow
Indrek Lõbus
PhD (Philosophy)
Visiting Research Fellow
Miriana Maio
mag (Language and mind: linguistics and cognitive studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
Jakobi 2–321
Hamza Naseer
MA (Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
Jakobi 2–321
Sadaf Ghaffari Zaki
MPhil (Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
Jakobi 2–321

Chair of Philosophy of Science

Edit Talpsepp
Edit Talpsepp
PhD
Acting Head of Chair, Research Fellow in Philosophy of Science
Jakobi 2-323

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Topics of research and supervision

Philosophy of Science (Biology)

Endla Lõhkivi
Endla Lõhkivi
PhD (Philosophy)
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science
Jakobi 2-323

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Empirically informed philosophy of science
  • Values in science
  • Cultures of scientific research
  • Objectivity of science
  • Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research practices
Ave Mets
Ave Mets
PhD (Philosophy)
Research Fellow in Philosophy of Science 0.4 p
Jakobi 2–323

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Philosophy and History of Science and Technology
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Law
Jaana Eigi-Watkin
Jaana Eigi-Watkin
PhD (Philosophy)
Research Fellow in Philosophy of Science (employment contract suspended)

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Social factors in science
  • Epistemic/inductive risk
  • Science in democratic society
  • Participation of non-scientists in science
  • Empirically informed philosophy of science
  • Objectivity
Tiit Remm
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Head of Department, Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–311

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Semiotics of space
  • Semiotics of the city
  • Sociosemiotics
Kalevi Kull
cand (Biology)
Professor of Biosemiotics
+372 737 5933
Jakobi 2–310

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Biosemiotics
  • General semiotics
  • Theoretical biology
Andreas Ventsel
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Professor of Political and Sociosemiotics
+372 5562 9976
Jakobi 2–313

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Political semiotics
  • Semiotic analysis of online communication
  • Semiotics of culture
  • Poststructuralist discourse theory
Timo Maran
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Professor of Ecosemiotics and Environmental Humanities 0.5 p
+372 737 6139
Jakobi 2–311

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Ecosemiotics
  • Ecocriticism
  • Mimicry
  • Estonian nature writing
Mihhail Lotman
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Visiting Professor of Semiotics 0.75 p
+372 737 5934
Jakobi 2–307

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Topics of research and supervision

  • General and cultural semiotics
  • Semiotics of verse,
  • Rhetorics and poetics
  • Analysis of film
  • Text theory
  • Russian literature
Peeter Torop
PhD (Philology)
Professor Emeritus of Semiotics 0.3 p
+372 737 6155
Jakobi 2–308

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Semiotics of culture
  • Semiotics of translation
  • Semiotics of literature
  • Cultural theories
Elin Sütiste
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Associate Professor of Semiotics
+372 737 6154
Jakobi 2-314
Maarja Ojamaa
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Associate Professor of Semiotics
Jakobi 2–308

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Semiotics of digital culture
  • Semiotics of cultural education
  • Cultural autocommunication
  • Transmediality
Silvi Salupere
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Lecturer in Semiotics
+372 737 6154
Jakobi 2-314

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Topics of research and supervision

  • History of semiotics
  • Semiotics metalanguage
  • Juri Lotman's cultural semiotics
Anti Randviir
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Lecturer in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies
+372 737 5934
Jakobi 2-309

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Sociosemiotics
  • Semiotics of space
  • Subculture studies
  • Semiotic language of description
Katre Pärn
Junior Lecturer in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies (BA)
Jakobi 2-302

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Cultural semiotics and analysis of culture
  • Semiotics of film and media semiotics
Lona Päll
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.5 p
Jakobi 2–302
Auli Viidalepp
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–307

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Topics of research and supervision

  • technosemiotics
  • technological systems and society
  • deepfakes and synthetic media
  • science and technology studies
Andrew Mark Creighton
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.5 p
Jakobi 2–303
Nelly Mäekivi
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies (MA)
Jakobi 2–302

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Ecosemiotics
  • Semiotic analysis of hybrid environments
  • Zoobiology
Mari-Liis Madisson
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–313

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Semiotics of culture
  • Political semiotics
  • Media semiotics
  • Processes of identification
  • Online culture
  • Conspiracy theories
Silver Rattasepp
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.5 p, Programme Director for Semiotics
Jakobi 2–304

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Posthumanism
  • Animal studies
  • Zoosemiotics
  • Philosophy of science
Riin Magnus
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–302

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Urban ecosemiotics
  • Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics
  • Human-non-human animal communication
  • Semiotics of alien species
Ott Puumeister
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–313

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Political semiotics
  • Semiotics of power
  • Biopolitics
Hongjin Song
MA (Semiotics)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies
Jakobi 2–309
Marta Kucza
MA
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies
Jakobi 2–303
James Augustus Bacigalupi IV
(Architecture)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies
Jakobi 2-304
Krista Tomson
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies
Jakobi 2–304
Yekaterina Lukina
MA
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies 0.5 p
Jakobi 2–302
Ulla Juske
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.8 p
Jakobi 2–308
Mariia Korniietska
MA
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2-304
Marleen Mihhailova
MA (Semiotics and Cultural Theory)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–304
Siiri Tarrikas
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies 0.75 p
Jakobi 2-304
Tiina Johanna Pitkäjärvi
PhD (Scandinavian Languages)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies
Jakobi 2–304
Rene Kiis
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2-304
Nina Kozachynska
MA (Semiotics)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.75 p
Jakobi 2–304
Sebastian Andres Nabon Hernández
MA (Semiotics)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–304
Eléa Jessica Pertusati
MPhil (Contemporary Philosophy)
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
Jakobi 2–304
Oleksii Popovych
MA
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.66 p
Jakobi 2–304
Tuuli Pern
International Relations Specialist 0.5 p
+372 737 5954
Jakobi 2–318
Ene-Reet Soovik
MA (English Language and Literature)
Editor
Jakobi 2-303
Ulvi Urm
Executive Secretary
+372 737 5933
Jakobi 2-317
Eva Lepik
Librarian 0.75 p
+372 737 5413
Jakobi 2-333
Alexandra Milyakina
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Research Fellow in Semiotics (employment contract suspended)

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Cultural semiotics
  • Transmedia
  • Education of literature
  • Digital education

Centre for Semiotic Applications, University of Tartu

Ulla Juske
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Administrative Manager 0.2 p
Jakobi 2–308
Martin Oja
Analyst
Jakobi 2–314
Karl Joosep Pihel
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Analyst 0.8 p
Jakobi 2–314
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Margit Sutrop
Dr. phil. (Philosophy)
Head of Centre
+372 737 5327
+372 520 7183
Jakobi 2–332

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy of education
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Mari-Liisa Parder
PhD (Media and Communication)
Research Fellow in Ethics 0.6 p, Research Projects Coordinator 0.2 p
+372 737 5426
Jakobi 2–330
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Anu Tammeleht
PhD (Education)
Research Fellow in Ethics 0.3 p, Methodologist-Trainer of Research Ethics 0.3 p
Jakobi 2–329
Marten Juurik
MA (Journalism)
Junior Research Fellow in Ethics 0.25 p
+372 737 5426
Jakobi 2–330
Pildil on naine istumas raamaturiiuli taustal
Triin Paaver
MA (Personnel and Development)
Administrative Manager of the Centre for Ethics
+372 737 5427
Jakobi 2-331
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Kertu Rajando
Project Manager 0.6 p
Jakobi 2–329
Pildil on naine istumas raamaturiiuli taustal
Kristi Lõuk
MA (Philosophy)
Project Manager 0.4 p
+372 737 5426
Jakobi 2–329
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Helen Hirsnik
Values Development Consultant for Schools and Kindergartens 0.5 p
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Katrin Velbaum
MA (Philosophy)
Project Manager 0.5 p
+372 737 5426
Jakobi 2–330
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Mari-Liis Nummert
Project Manager
Jakobi 2–329
Pildil on naine istumas raamaturiiuli taustal
Heidy Meriste
PhD (Philosophy)
Personal Assistant 0.5 p
Jakobi 2–329
Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Ene Tigas
MA
Project Manager
Jakobi 2–329
Pildil on naine istumas raamaturiiuli taustal
Nele Punnar
Project Manager 0.8 p
+372 5384 8320
Jakobi 2-329
Pildil on naine istumas raamaturiiuli taustal
Carmen Helene Raudmets
Assistant
Jakobi 2–329
Tobias Pilv
Project Assistant 0.5 p
Jakobi 2–329
Pildil on naine istumas raamaturiiuli taustal
Laura Lilles-Heinsar
Personal Assistant 0.8 p
+372 737 5413
Jakobi 2-329
Britten Dortmans
Artist-Disainer 0.5 p
Urmas Loit
PhD (Journalism)
Specialist 0.25 p

Carries out tasks related to the European Horizon programme project “Fostering capacity building for civic resilience and participation: Dialogic communication ethics and accountability” (DIACOMET).

Pildil on naine seismas treppide taustal
Kaisa-Maris Hagel
Communication Specialist 0.8 p
Jakobi 2–329