The organisers of Tartu 2024 presented a digital book entitled Tartu 2024: The Story of Survival at the Kultuurikompass Forum, which recounts Tartu and Southern Estonia's year as European Capital of Culture.

Tartu 2024, European Capital of Culture, has launched a call as part of a project called Vares. Application deadline: March 30, 2025. It’s an international interdisciplinary residency for spatial practice, whose main task is to seek, find and create alternative spatial practices that are not based on market logic, but rather on the desire to create spaces and places that enrich everyday life, empower the local community and town of Valga.

In the last days, the European Capitals and Regions of Europe of 2024 officially handed over their titles to the European Capitals of Culture of 2025. Bad Ischl Salzkammergut (Austria), Bodø (Norway) and Tartu (Estonia) passed on the title to the ECoCs of 2025 Chemnitz (Germany) and Nova Gorica/Goricia on the Slovenian-Italian border.

 When the cultural capital cities of Bodø, Tartu and Salzkammergut were to create something together, the result was: "Village Party": A playful exploration of village party stereotypes.

After a six-year break, the open-air show Tõrva Loits will take place again on July 20th in Tõrva. Estonia’s largest symbiosis of fire, water, and music will be titled "Ouroboros" this year, symbolizing the infinite cycle of life with the ancient and mystical emblem of a snake eating its own tail.