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- Symposium A.1: Power imbalance and hierarchies in Finno-Ugric studies
- Symposium A.2: Shifting and competing ideologies in minority language development and language maintenance
- Round-table: Finno-Ugric Studies meeting the People
- Symposium B.1: Prehistoric lexical layers in Saami and Finnic
- Symposium B.2: Perspectives on Saami with a particular focus on the smaller languages
- Symposium B.3: South Estonian within and beyond Uralic studies
- Symposium B.4: The size of Uralic nominals
- Symposium B.5: Verbalization of motion events in Uralic
- Symposium B.6: Grammatical Subjects and Objects in Uralic
- Symposium B.7: Clause combining in Uralic languages
- Symposium B.8: Epistemic categories in Uralic and beyond
- Symposium B.9: Discourse particles in the Uralic languages
- Symposium B.10: Marginal phonemes
- Symposium B.11: Prosody of Uralic languages
- Symposium B.12: Building diachronic corpora for minority languages
- Symposium C.1: Reappraising Public Representations of Finno-Ugric Identities
- Symposium C.2: The Possibilities of Studying Finno-Ugric Religions in a Changing World
- Symposium C.3: The winter in Finno-Ugric cultures
- Symposium C.4: Traditional Creation and Modern Experience in Folk Music Revival
- Symposium D.1: Transdisciplinary approach in the studies of the human past
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- About CIFU
Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum
Practical information
IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS
The Estonian area code is +372
Emergency services – 112
Taxi 1 – +372 1918
Taxi 2 – +372 7422222
You can also use the Bolt mobile app or see https://tartu.ee/en/taxis.
USEFUL ADDRESSES
Closest pharmacy (open 24 h) – Raekoja plats 1a
University Main Building – Ülikooli 18
Tartu Information Center – Raekoja plats 1a
Train station – Vaksali 6
Bus station – Turu 2
Tartu Airport – Lennu tn 44, Reola village
TRANSPORT
Bus tickets:
City buses:
- https://tartu.ee/en/inner-city-bus-transportation (general information)
- There are three ways to purchase a city bus ticket:
- Buy a Tartu bus card (€3) at R-Kiosk, Selver, Rimi, Prisma, Omniva, Tartu Bus Station, or the Tartu Information Center. You can load money onto the card at these locations or online at https://tartu.pilet.ee/en/home. When boarding the bus, simply hold the card up to one of the on-board validators.
- Buy an hourly QR-code ticket online to your e-mail address and present the QR-code to one of the on-board validators when you board the bus.
- Buy an hourly ticket using contactless card payment on the bus by holding your bank card up to one of the on-board validators. Be careful to avoid accidental contactless payments while standing near the validator!
- Tickets
- Bus lines map
- Bus lines timetable
Trains:
Taxi:
City bikes:
Other:
TRANSPORT TO AND FROM THE AIRPORT
The easiest and cheapest way to get to and from the Tartu Airport is to use the services of the Airport Shuttle: https://tartu.ee/en/airport-shuttle. See also Tartu Airport webpage.
In Tallinn and Riga, most buses also stop at the airport in addition to the central bus station stop. You can book bus tickets on the LuxExpress webpage or download their mobile app.
WIFI
In order to connect to WiFi, please use the UT-public or Eduroam networks.
PHOTOCOPYING/PRINTING
You can print your materials at Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus/University of Tartu Press (Lossi 3) that is located next to the main venue Jakobi 2. You can also print posters there, the price depends on the size and design of your poster. You can pay by card or in cash.
You can also print at Koopiatehas (Ülikooli 10).
BANKS AND SHOPS (opening hours)
Banks are usually open until 5 p.m. You can find ATMs around the Town Hall square. Most supermarkets are open until 10 p.m. Please note that Wednesday, August 20th is Estonian Restoration of Independence Day, thus a public holiday in Estonia. The supermarkets and most of the restaurants are still open that day, while some services might be closed.
TOURISM
Useful links:
- https://visitestonia.com/en
- https://visitestonia.com/en/where-to-go
- https://visittartu.com/
- https://loodusegakoos.ee/en
Museums and centres in Tartu:
- Estonian National Museum (ERM)– see the Uralic-themed permanent exhibition Echo of the Urals
- Tartu Art Museum
- University of Tartu Art Museum
- University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden
- University of Tartu Museum
- Tartu Old Observatory
- Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum
- Tartu Toy Museum
- AHHAA Science Centre
FOOD
Most restaurants and cafés in the city center offer daily specials for lunch on workdays. The price is usually between 5-8 euros.
You can safely drink tap water anywhere in the city.
