Copenhagen–Tartu school of biosemiotics is a loose network of scholars working within the discipline of biosemiotics at the University of Tartu and the University of Copenhagen.
The school has been instrumental in developing biosemiotics as a new perspective on the study of life, in the biological and environmental sciences.
Notable semioticians working in the Copenhagen–Tartu school are: Kalevi Kull, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Claus Emmeche, Frederik Stjernfelt, Søren Brier, Peeter Torop, Timo Maran, Mihhail Lotman.
[5] The biosemiotic co-work between the Tartu and Copenhagen groups was established in early 1990s.
[7] The School values the classical works of Jakob von Uexküll and Juri Lotman as well as those of Charles Sanders Peirce.