Tartu County

Tartu County

3000 sq km

150,000 people

Tradition and Innovation

City of Tartu – education, research, medicine, services

Tartu County – agriculture, wood and food industry, cultural heritage

Tartu – the second city, national counterbalance

National institutions (Ministry of Education, Supreme Court etc)

Regional centre of South Estonia

A Human Capital

People Like It Here

A valued place to live in

Stable and growing population

Nature

• Wavy plains, river valleys, drumlins•Two big lakes, wetlands• Conservation areas• Peat, sand, gravel

Landscapes

People

Local Government

3 towns Tartu (100,000) Elva (6,300) Kallaste (1,300)

19 rural municipalitiesaverage population 2500-3000

Infrastructure

Third Economic Power

10% of Estonian turnover, 5% of export

Lowest unemployment in Estonia

Big share of public sector jobs

Development of entrepreneurship – a challenge

Metal products

Timber

Furniture

Machines

Clothes and footwear

Glass

Plastics

Other

Economy and Business

Foodstuffs, wood, glass, mechanical engineering

Fertile lands, big farms

Fishery

Strategically important - knowledge intensive production

New Economy

ICT

GIS

Biotechnology

Biomedicine

Innovation

• Tartu Science Park• Tartu Biotechnology Park• UT Institute of Technology

www.teaduspark.eewww.biopark.eewww.tuit.ut.ee

Scientia Potentia Est

• 15 research institutions

• 7 centres of excellence

• Half of Estonian degree holders

• Genetics, plant physiology, semiotics, nanotechnology, optics, Finno-Ugric studies

• International conferences

UniversitiesUniversity of Tartu – a living classic

Estonian University of Life Sciences

11 universities and colleges

20 000 students and 5000 employees

900 research fellows

Internationalization

Tartu – the city of youth

Education

60 municipal schools

Baltic Defence College

Estonian Aviation College

Tartu Art College

Sports

Tartu Ski Marathon + running and cycling events

Miss Valentine gymnastics competition and gala

Basketball, football, judo, motorboat racing

Culture

“Vanemuine” Theatre and Concert Hall

20+ amateur theatre societies

30 museums

Hanseatic Days

Student Festivals

Diversity

Tourism

Tartu: old town, university, museums, St John’s church, botanical gardens, historic ships, St Anthony’s Guild

Lake Peipus region: fishing, old believers’ villages, Alatskivi manor

Nature trails, parks, manors, museums

www.visittartu.com