The Tartu 2024 Foundation invites cultural organisers to offer international events to the European Capital of Culture programme. The application round for international projects, which will open at the beginning of 2022, will be introduced in Tartu on Friday, October 22.

The mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas and the Mayor of Tallinn Mihhail Kõlvart signed a cooperation agreement in Tallinn, which states that the European Green Capital 2023 Tallinn and the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 will cooperate in a mutually beneficial manner.

On the evening of September 14, Tartu 2024 thanked volunteers for their work with a fun party at the Jardin Plantarium. This summer, over fifty volunteers contributed to the Tartu 2024 events, working as technicians, information workers, green volunteers, backstage managers, hosts and photographers.

From 25 to 28 August, the Tartu 2024 delegation visited the European Capital of Culture 2023 Veszprem in Hungary. During the trip, Jaan Ulst and Kaidi-Lisa Kivisalu took part in the city’s most popular music events, the Street Music Festival, as members of the international jury, along with Giedrė Korotkovaitė, Communications Coordinator of Good Music Live - Kaunas. The VEB2023 team conducted an interview with the international jury members.

European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 with Southern Estonian municipalities awaits ideas from all cultural managers, entrepreneurs and creatives for the Tartu 2024 Southern Estonian application round. The regional project application round seeks events that will take place in Southern Estonia, every European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 municipality, during the title year.