The day started quite early and was entertaining with a few people sprinting to catch the 8:00 AM bus. On September 19, EACH 2026 intake’s trip to Tallinn officially materialised. Led by the organising powers of Angel, budget-friendly suggestions of…

We are glad to announce that the seventh edition of the online course LC-MS Method Validation is open for registration (registration link is here)! The course will be offered as a Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) during Dec 15, 2026 –…

The 2025 cohort has started their journey in second year universities as part of the mobility programme. From their first days, they have been experiencing a new academic environment, gaining theoretical knowledge, and developing practical skills in analytical chemistry with…

After finishing their first-year exams, the 2025 EACH cohort put their knowledge into practice through summer internships. Below are some students’ reflections on their internship experiences. Stefanie: My internship at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (Germany) was…

On September 3, 2026, five EACH students of the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) track successfully defended their master’s theses. As is typical for the Lyon study track, the topics of the theses were very practical and linked to…

This week marks the beginning of the academic year for the new students of the EACH programme. This year, a total of 21 students started their studies in the programme. The students come from a diverse range of countries, including…

Hans: I joined the EACH program two years ago with the dream of being an excellent analytical chemist. Through all the lectures, experiments, projects and internships, I feel confident saying that I am an analytical chemist equipped with the knowledge,…

As part of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Erasmus Mundus Master’s programme, Amna, Ayobami, and Daniel are currently completing their traineeships at the Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment (BIOR) in Riga, Latvia. “Throughout our internship, we…

As part of the programme, students have to pass two mandatory laboratory courses. One of them is Practical Works in Chemical Analysis and Metrology. It gives students confidence in performing instrumental chemical analysis using different types of equipment and in…

EACH students, Jan-Luca and Hanna, were participants in the 19th International Summer School on Quality Assurance in a Testing Laboratory (ISO/IEC 17025), which took place in Křtiny, Czechia, from 5 to 18 July. Here’s what students say about this event.…

This semester, Ben Wood, a first-year student in the EACH program, had the opportunity to participate in the University of Tartu podcast, Tiksu to UniTartu, and share his experience studying and living in Estonia. The podcast highlights the experiences of…

The 19th edition of the international summer school on quality assurance in a testing laboratory (ISO/IEC 17025) just started. It is organised by the Measurement Science in Chemistry (MSC) consortium, of which the University of Tartu is also a part.…

Approximately a year ago, the ninth intake of EACH students completed their studies in the EACH programme. Looking back at their first year after graduation, we are delighted to see the impressive range of career paths they have pursued. This…

On June 10, 2026, eight EACH students of the Uppsala University (Sweden) track successfully defended their master’s theses. The defended theses covered a wide range of topics, ranging from studying lipid changes in microglial cells to using mass spectrometry imaging…

Before the start of the exam period, the first-year students of the 2025 EACH intake decided to take a short break from their studies and spend a weekend together by the sea. Their destination was Pärnu, one of Estonia’s most…

Quoc: If I could go back in time, even a hundred times, I would still choose to apply to and pursue my Master’s degree with EACH. For me, the admission email to this program was like a key that opened…

The second-year EACH students are currently working hard on their Master’s projects. Read on to find out what they have learned and how their experience has been so far. Quoc, UU track: I am doing my thesis in the Department…

In April, EACH students had the chance to be taught by two invited experts. First, they had two lectures by Dr Burcu Binici, a specialist at TUBITAK UME (the National Metrology Institute of Türkiye), on April 14-15. She presented materials…

Maitane is an EACH student of the 2024 batch. Read next about her experience with the EACH program so far. EACH Master’s program is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, without a doubt. Over these two years, I have been continuously challenged…

On Tuesday, March 24, 2025 the web course Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis was launched the twelfth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)! Altogether 797 participants from 96 countries are registered! In the map presented above,…

On March 6, 2026 the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation offered by University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 995 people registered from 95 countries. Roughly half of them, 486 participants, actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one graded test…

At the end of 2025, the Cultural Heritage work group of the Chair of Analytical Chemistry, University of Tartu, published an article, “Laser ablation APCI-HRMS method for the analysis of cultural heritage materials,” introducing the novel laser ablation-based APCI-HRMS system…

The current first-year students, with the support of the program coordinators, organised a Cultural Food Exchange. Students and some of the program’s alumni came together to discover different tastes from around the world. They brought dishes from their home countries…

The first-year EACH students: Not everything in our Erasmus journey happens in the lab. Some evenings, we meet at the court for relaxed volleyball games, just a way to move, clear our minds, and spend time together outside of classes.…

Jiahui is an EACH student of the 2025 batch. Read next about his experience with the EACH program so far. It’s been a semester since I enrolled. I’ve learned a lot of new things here. I’ve also realised that talking…

The first-year EACH students shared their Winter Break experiences; here’s what they had to say: Let’s recap the Winter Break❄️✨Before diving into a new semester, we made sure to make the most of our winter break, and what a break…

The 11th EACH Winter School took place from January 19 to January 23, 2026, at Aronsborgs Konferenshotell, Sweden. The Winter School brings a lot of knowledge, connections, and positive emotions for first-year students. At the start, they had a lot…

The 2026 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will run from March 24 to May 6, 2026. Registration is now open! The full course material (as well as the registration link) is accessible…

On Tuesday, December 16, 2025 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the tenth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 999 registered participants from 95 countries, ranging from Canada to New Zealand and from Peru…

Riin Rebane, Asko Laaniste and Ivo Leito from the University of Tartu participated on 10-11.12.2025 in the Joint IUPAC-DSM Workshop on LC-MS method validation and performance, organised jointly by the IUPAC’s Division of Analytical Chemistry and the Mass spectrometry division…

The tenth edition of the course on LC-MS Method Validation already has 536 registered participants! Don’t miss your chance to join – spots are filling up fast. Register now (here) and start learning! The course will be offered as a…

On September 4, 2025, five EACH students of the UCBL study track successfully defended their theses. As is customary at the UCBL track, the thesis work was carried out in industry, and the topics were very diverse and tackled relevant…

Ivo Leito and Koit Herodes were awarded honorary decorations by the University of Tartu.Professor Ivo Leito received the University of Tartu Grand Medal, and Associate Professor Koit Herodes received the University of Tartu Badge of Distinction.  Ivo, our Professor of…

The admission for Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees programme Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) intake 2026 is now open! You can apply for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship until Jan 5, 2026 (and you can apply for a study place without…

Anh Vu: Looking back, the EACH program has been one of the most transformative experiences of my life. Studying in Estonia and Sweden not only deepened my scientific understanding but also shaped me into a more independent researcher. At the…

Currently, the Euroanalysis 2025 conference is taking place in Barcelona, Spain. A graduate of the EACH program, Quang-Dong Bui (EACH 2022-2022), is also participating and reflecting back on his experience with the EACH program: Dong: Time flies – it has…

On September 01, 2025 Ivo Leito presented a keynote lecture in the education session of the Euroanalysis 2025 conference in Barcelona (Spain) titled Excellence in Analytical Chemistry: a Joint Master’s Programme. The talk gave a brief overview of the programme,…

On the 19th of August, 2025, five EACH students successfully defended their master’s theses at Åbo Akademi University (AAU), Finland. The titles of the theses were the following: Conrado Pabustan IV – Electrochemical Rust Removal on Medical Grade Stainless Steel…

It has been about a year since the eighth intake of EACH students graduated from the programme, and it is time to look back at where they are now, roughly one year after defending their master’s theses. Out of 15…

Great news for the EACH community! We’re proud to share that the EACH Joint Master’s Programme has been approved to receive EU Erasmus Mundus funding and scholarships for 5 more academic years! This achievement wouldn’t have been possible without the…

From 6 to 19 July, the International Summer School on Quality Assurance took place in Křtiny, Czech Republic. Before starting their second year in the EACH program, our students Maitane Mendoza and Quoc Huy Tran participated in the summer school…

On June 12 and 13, 2025, seven EACH students of the Uppsala University (Sweden) track successfully defended their master’s theses. The defended theses covered a variety of topics from method development for label-free quantitative protein analysis to studying landfill leachate…

On May 14, 2025, the on-line course (MOOC) Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully.Eventually, altogether 1061 people registered from 100 countries. 525 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one graded test at…

On Tuesday, March 25, 2025 the web course Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis was launched the twelfth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)! Altogether 1061 participants from 100 countries are registered – the largest number of…

On February 14, 2025, the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 1029 people registered from 99 countries. Roughly half of them, 509 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one graded…

The 2025 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will be running from March 25 to May 7, 2025. Registration is now open! The full course material (as well as the registration link) is…

On 31 January 2025, the 10th EACH Winter School was finally wrapped up after 3 days packed with activities and learning. The week kicked off with a warm welcome and interactive discussions between 1st and 2nd-year students, alumni, and professors,…

On Jan 28, 2025, the 10th Winter School (WS) of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) programme officially kicked off. This year the venue is Estonia’s winter capital, Otepää, located on the outskirts of a village called Kääriku, Valga. While…

On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the ninth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 1034 registered participants from 99 countries, ranging from Mexico to Japan and from Australia to…

The admission for Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees programme Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) intake 2025 is open from Nov 5, 2024, to Jan 5, 2025. EACH is an international two-year joint master’s degree programme that educates specialists in analytical…

Angelo Bryan Lazo and Faiza Fayyad are two of the fresh 2024 graduates of the EACH programme. Read next about their experience with their studies at the University of Tartu (UT) and Åbo Akademi University (AAU): Faiza and Angelo: Undertaking…

On the 5th of September, 2024, six EACH students successfully defended their master’s theses at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), France. Congratulations, Almira Bilang de Villa, Emmaús Villa Falfan, Ma. Elaine Fetalvero Falo, Mauricio Andrés Huertas Beltrán, Merili Tammiste,…

On the 2nd of September, 2024, two EACH students successfully defended their master’s theses at Åbo Akademi University (AAU), Finland. The titles of the theses were the following: Faiza Fayyaz – Steam-induced melt infiltration method for all oxide Co3O4 based…

At the recent Balticum Organicum Syntheticum conference Ivo Leito made a presentation titled How to make maximum use of the available pKa data in non-aqueous solvents? (Photo on the left) The presentation started with how acid and base strengths, typically…

We are delighted to announce that the prestigious ERC Starting Grant was awarded to a member of the Analytical Chemistry group and head of the Archemy team at the University of Tartu – Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry and Archaeology Ester…

This week is the first study week for the new students of the EACH Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme (EACH). This year, altogether 17 students started their studies. The students’ countries of origin are very diverse: Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Poland, Cuba,…

Faiza: “Excellent,” is the first word that comes to mind when reflecting on my EACH journey. From the moment I discovered the EACH program, I knew I had to join, and it has turned out to be one of the…

Nikola: Hello, my fellow analytical chemists! My name is Nikola and I was part of the EACH intake 2017. After two amazing EACH years, it was time for me to move on. I secured a PhD position at ETH Zürich…

From 4 – 17 July, the International Summer School on Quality Assurance took place in Křtiny, Czechia. Before starting their second year in the EACH program, our students Adrian González and Felipe Takano participated in the summer school and will…

On June 11, 2024, six EACH students successfully defended their master’s theses at Uppsala University (UU), Sweden. The topics varied from method development for the analysis of mycotoxin in cured meats and cheese to studying the fragmentation of dissolved organic…

On May 09, 2024 the on-line course (MOOC) Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually altogether 1047 people registered from 104 countries. 655 participants actually started the course (i.e., tried at least one…

Three graduates from the 2020 EACH cohort, all from the Åbo Akademi study track, recently participated in the 8th Baltic Electrochemistry Conference: Finding New Inspiration 2 (BEChem 2024) held in Tartu, Estonia, from April 14-17, 2024. During the conference’s poster…

In 2023, the seventh intake of EACH students successfully graduated. Within a few months, 13 of the 14 most recent alumni have found a new position to continue their careers in either Academia or Industry. Similar to last year’s graduates,…

On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the web course Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis was launched for the eleventh time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)! Altogether 1048 participants from 104 countries are registered – the largest number…

We are happy to announce that Mari Tõrv, Research Fellow in Analytical and Physical Chemistry and Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Tartu, was awarded the Professor Peeter Tulviste Memorial Fund scholarship. Her interdisciplinary research combines archaeological heritage…

During recent years, we have been engaged in extensive investigations of the unified pH (pHabs) values of reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) mobile phases. The pHabs scale has the advantage over the conventional pH scale because pHabs values express acidity in…

On February 8, 2024 the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 1014 people registered from 109 countries. Around half of them, 508 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least…

The Institute of Chemistry received an award for its consistent and systematic efforts over the past three years to improve the quality of education. One of the main goals was to develop students’ skills in specific subjects by changing teaching…

The 2024 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will be running from March 19 to May 2, 2024. Registration is now open! The full course material (as well as the registration link) is…

Thursday 01.02.2024 was the last working day of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Winter School 2024. The three days of the of the Winter School saw lots of interactions between 1st and 2nd year students, between students and alumni,…

Recently, Bojidar Mandjoukov (EACH 2022 alumnus) published the results of his Master’s thesis. The open access publication “Planar, low-cost, flexible, and fully laminated graphene paper pseudo-reference and potassium-selective electrodes” can be read here. Read what Bojidar has to say about…

On Jan 30, 2024, the eighth Winter School of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) programme started in Åbo (Turku, Finland). Altogether 33 students from 15 countries (Mexico, Philippines, Thailand, Costa Rica, Brazil, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nigeria, Estonia, India, Ecuador, Azerbaijan,…

At the beginning of this school year, two EACH students took part in the first edition of Mindful Mundus. It’s a project aimed at the students at Erasmus Mundus programs to give them mental health awareness, as well as interpersonal…

We are delighted to announce that the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant 2023 was awarded to a former member of our Analytical Chemistry group and frequent supervisor of EACH master students, Associate Professor Anneli Kruve at Stockholm University! The European Research…

In October, a Fox Party took place to welcome the fresh new EACH students. Read what the foxes Juan, Gloriana, and Rafaela wrote about the social event: We were warmly welcomed not just to Estonia but to the vibrant city…

Number of participants and countries updated on 22.11.2023! On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the fifth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 973 1013 registered participants (the first…

We are glad to announce that the admission for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees programme intake 2024 is open from Nov 5, 2023 to Jan 5, 2024! This international two-year joint master’s degree programme educates specialists in analytical…

During 9-11.10.2023 the 23rd conference in the EcoBalt series – EcoBalt 2023 – took place in Tallinn, co-organised by the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics and the University of Tartu. With around 200 participants from 21 countries it…

The eighth edition of the online course LC-MS Method Validation is open for registration (registration link is here)! The course will be offered as a Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) during Nov 21, 2024 – Feb 02, 2024. This is…

Our EACH alumnus, Shidong Chen, successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Unravelling prehistoric plant exploitation in eastern Baltic: organic residue analysis of plant-based materials by multi-method approach” on the 12th of September. We were honored to have Dr. Shinya Shoda…

At the EcoBalt 2023 conference, there is right now the gettogether of EACH students and alumni, in the framework of the “Data Quality in Analytical Chemistry” mini-cinference series. Altogether around 40 current EACH students and alumni are participating! As for…

On August 18, 2023, five EACH students successfully defended their master’s theses at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Now, after graduating, they looked back at their time in the EACH program: Enahoro Asein: The EACH program was a fantastic opportunity…

On September 7, 2023, five EACH students successfully defended their master’s theses at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), France. The topics varied from monitoring manufacturing processes with Raman spectroscopy to quantification of fluorine in plastics. The titles for…

Last week was the first study week for the new students of the EACH Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme (EACH). This year, altogether 19 students started their studies. The students’ countries of origin are very diverse: Mexico, Philippines, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Brazil,…

As the new academic year comes closer, incoming 2nd year students reminisced about their days in Chemicum where most of their classes in Tartu for their first year of studies were held: Francis: A tapestry of recollections has been bound…

During June 4-8, 2023, the 71st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics took place in Houston, Texas, USA. Among the attendees (around 6300) were also several former EACH students. On Tuesday, one student from the 1st intake (intake…

In June, the first-year EACH and AMS students visited the Science Centre AHHAA in Tartu to cap off the academic year. Everyone enjoyed each other’s company while having fun with the interactive exhibits of the Centre. They were also taken…

From 9 – 22 July, International Summer School on Quality Assurance took place in Krtiny, Czechia. Before starting their second year in the EACH programme, our students Tetiana and Merili participated in the summer school and will look back on…

Dennisse, 2021-2023 EACH student from Colombia, looks back on some of the cons of the EACH program: EACH, as its name can clearly suggest, is an international program funded in terms of Excellence and high quality. Once immersed in it,…

At the end of June 2023, the students of the EACH 2020 intake could finally take part in the graduation celebrations in Tartu after earning their Master’s degree in 2022. Noemae, Yu-Yen, Naela, Angelo, and Bojidar reflected more on the…