About Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city of Estonia and an ideal holiday destination if you want to combine the comforts of modern world, versatile nightlife and luxurious adventures with rich cultural scene and historic settings. With half a million citizens, Tallinn is hardly a world metropolis. However, short distances and low traffic are advantages to cherish. Medieval Tallinn Old Town, one of the best preserved Hanseatic town centres in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is just a short walk away from the city business centre with its skyscrapers, modern hotels, luxurious restaurants and shopping malls. In 2011, Tallinn, along with Turku in Finland, was the cultural capital of Europe (Tallinn2011).
Many new visitors don’t realise that Tallinn, with all its Medieval charm, is actually one of the most high-tech cities on the planet. It leads the world in free, public wireless Internet access, it’s the birthplace of Skype, and it’s home to the best developed e-government system anywhere. In fact, the tech-savvy locals are so used to services like electronic banking and mobile parking that they can’t imagine life without them.
One of Tallinn’s strengths is the sheer variety of choices it offers when it comes to nightlife, and a visit here isn’t really complete without sampling this side of the city’s culture. Whether you’re the type who dresses up for the opera, dresses down for a rock show or just wants to dance the night away, you’ll find plenty for your soul in Tallinn. Fortunately, exploring Tallinn by night is extremely easy thanks to the fact that most of the interesting destinations are concentrated in Old Town, within easy walking distance of one another. If you have the energy and pace yourself carefully, you can visit a dozen different places in a single night.
It’s very easy to reach us. Travel suggestions: if you are traveling from the Baltic States get a coach, from rest of the Europe you should get a plane to Riga or to Helsinki and from there take a bus (from Riga) or a boat (from Helsinki) to Tallinn. There are direct flights to Tallinn Lennart Meri airport from Amsterdam, Bremen, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf Weeze, Frankfurt, Girona, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Liverpool, London Gatwick, Luton and Stansted, Milan Bergamo, Moscow Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo, Munich, Oslo Gardermoen and Rygge, Oulu, Prague, Riga, Stockholm Arlanda, Bromma and Skavsta, St Petersburg, Tampere, Trondheim, Turku, Vaasa, Warsaw and Vilnius, ferries from Stockholm and Helsinki. From Vilnius, Riga, St Petersburg the Lux Express and Ecolines coach services are the practical travel option.
Tallinn University of Technology
Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), founded in 1918, is the flagship of Estonian engineering and technical education. TUT has approximately 14 000 students studying in 8 faculties and 4 colleges. TUT’s alumni compose a large portion of decision makers in Estonian businesses. According to statistics, in each economic sector – be it power engineering, information technology, banking or entrepreneurship – TUT’s graduates are most successful.
TUT is the only university in Estonia to have a campus. On campus you can obviously find all the study buildings, but also dormitories, Estonia’s most modern library, sports facilities, Student House (a place for entertainment and student clubs), cafés, student sauna etc.
TUT also has more than 25 different student organizations including choirs, dance groups, orchestras, film, photography and international clubs, so besides getting a high-quality education you can do a variety of extracurricular activities.
About Riga
Riga is more than 800 years old and with a blend of a medieval centre and a modern city. Mixed together so perfectly that it fits every taste, with an enchanting and irresistible charm of old times. . As Riga has always been located at a juncture of trading routes, it is a multicultural city which means there are things to see here.
Riga has the finest concentration of Art Nouveau buildings in Europe. Before the Soviet occupation, Riga was an important economical centre and one of the most influential parts of Northern Europe. Even if most of Riga’s earlier buildings have been destroyed in the wars, you find evidence all around the city from different centuries, not only in the streets of the Old Town.
But Riga is much more than just its history. Proud of its heritage, it is a thoroughly modern city with a highly developed infrastructure and opportunities for a variety of activities and entertainment. Today’s Riga, the largest city in the Baltic States, is a vibrant, fast-evolving modern city that has a lot to offer. Music plays an important role in the everyday life so when you want to relax, Riga has so much to offer: from music festivals, concerts, folk music to hot night spots.
Riga Technical University
Riga Technical University is the first technical university in the Baltic countries – its history dates back to 1862 when Riga Polytechnic was founded. Long lasting traditions, advanced teaching methods, new technologies and innovative approach provide the University with the opportunity to ensure research excellence and offer exciting full-time or part-time studies in RTU in Engineering Sciences, Technologies, Natural and Environmental Sciences as well as in Architecture and Engineering Economics.
Riga Technical University is an accredited internationally recognized European university that consists of 8 faculties and 35 institutes. It is the second largest university in Latvia by number of students, and it has the greatest number of state funded students.
