TÜÜE – Tartu Ülikooli üliõpilasesindus

University of Tartu Student Union

Let’s make the university better together!

The Student Union

The student union’s task is to stand for the students’ interests and needs and support them in protecting their rights. The union has more than 140 students from each institute and faculty, and their work is coordinated by the office and the board. The students are represented in every institute’s and faculty’s council, the Senate’s meeting and every committee that influences student life. You can become a candidate for student representative every spring.

In the 2022/2023 academic year, the Student Council has four working groups: quality of education, communication, doctoral students and the spirit of UTSU. In addition, one of the main focus topics is the challenges related to financing higher education, which is one of the priorities of the representative office.

Tutvu oma õigustega

If you have a concern

The members of the institute’s student council are the first to notice bottlenecks and shortcomings in their institute’s organisation of studies or the study environment. They mostly make up one-fifth of the institute’s council and are there as members with the right to speak and submit proposals for changes.

When should you turn to the student union?

If you feel that something is unfair in the organisation of studies or that the study environment needs fixing, turn to your institute’s student representatives first.

Leia oma esindajad

The Student Body’s policy guidelines

The student body’s policy guidelines are publicly adopted goals that the student union strives to accomplish.

Vaata kalendrit

Know your rights

Find your representatives

Policy guidelines

UTSU’s structure Board and office Documents Contact

The university has four faculties and 31 institutes, and almost all of them have student councils. There are 30 institute student councils, and each of them has 1-6 student representatives. They mostly make up one-fifth of the institute’s council and are there as members with the right to speak and submit proposals for changes.

Every faculty also has a student council that mostly makes up a fifth of the faculty’s council, where they are as members with the right to speak and submit proposals for changes.

The faculty student councils form the student parliament, which is the student body’s highest decision-making body that elects the student body’s board, approves the student union’s budget and adopts political positions.

The student union’s work is coordinated by the board and the office. The board is made up of the student body’s chairperson and up to two vice-chairpersons. The office assists the board in carrying out assignments.

The work of the entire student union is reviewed by the monitoring committee.

The student representatives also belong to the university’s Senate, the highest academic decision-making body, and the Estonian student unions’ umbrella organisation, the Federation of Estonian Student Union‘s general meeting’s composition.