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The government has approved the laureates of this year’s national research awards. The lifetime achievement award for long-term outstanding research and development was presented to Mihkel Zilmer.

The University of Tartu has a long history of astronomy research. Its Old Observatory, or Tähetorn, is considered a landmark in Estonia’s second largest city and academic hub. The modern observatory s

Estonia’s scientists have come up with an environmentally friendly solution for batteries and started looking for investments to build a factory.

The CE7 coalition of seven universities hopes a new partnership with the League European Research Universities will give them more influence in shaping EU policy to better suit their needs.

Estonia should decide to invest in climate competence, develop climate adaptation plan and "climate services," said Piia Post, head of atmospheric physics laboratory.

A team of Estonian scientists built a prototype that not only extracts CO2 from the air but also turns it into a high-end chemical that can be used t make fuel.

Among others, the University of Tartu geologists, in cooperation with the Estonian Geological Survey, are mapping the reserves of critical metals in the crystalline basement.

Estonian-Ukrainian cooperation project ended with an online Demo Day, where teams of Ukrainian university lecturers presented the business ideas they had developed over the previous four months.

Read the programme of the students’ Spring Festival on studentdays.ee.

Estonian Microbiome Project, using electronic health data from more than 2500 biobank participants finds long-term antibiotic usage, independent from recent administration, has an impact on the microbiome, partly explaining the common bacterial signatures overlapping between diseases.