Topic: research

Today starts the three-day IT Summer School ESSCaSS (Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science), which brings more than 120 researchers, doctoral students and students from Estonia and abroad to the Delta Centre.

At the initiative of Kati Orru, Associate Professor of Sociology of Sustainability at the University of Tartu, the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, a flagship journal of crisis sociology, has published a special issue.

22. augustil kell 10.15 kaitseb Sirli Rosendahl molekulaarbioloogia erialal doktoritööd „Fitness effects of chromosomal toxin-antitoxin systems in Pseudomonas putida“ („Kromosomaalsete toksiin-antitoksiin süsteemide mõju Pseudomonas putida kohasusele“).

From 18 to 21 July, the 14th International Symposium on the Ordovician System will take place in Tallinn, focusing on the evolution of Earth and life several hundred million years ago and its impact on shaping the modern environment.

According to a study by the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia has good prospects for developing research-intensive entrepreneurship in healthcare.

Thanks to cutting-edge research at the Institute of Computer Science, BetterMedicine, a company that automates the analysis of cancer CT scans, has received a boost. BetterMedicine was recently awarded a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council's Accelerator.

UT has completed the IT infrastructure for personalised medicine, enabling Estonian doctors and nurses to use genetic data for disease prevention and finding the best treatment plan for each person.

Ülo Mander received the Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to study the N2O cycle, its links to climate change, and land-use practices that could help curb its production in the future.

The European Commission has published the selection results of the 2023 Erasmus+ call for proposals for European Universities.

The board of the Estonian Academy of Sciences elected Andrey Makarychev and Heiki Junninen the academy's research professors for 2023 - 2024.