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Thirteen University of Tartu researches among the most influential in the world

The recently released 2018 Highly Cited Researchers Report by Clarivate Analytics includes 17 scientists from Estonia, 13 of whom work at the University of Tartu. The Highly Cited Researchers Report lists over 6,000 most influential natural and social scientists of the last decade, based on the Web of Science database. Last year the report listed […]

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Estonian and Spanish scientists discover a simple way to improve infertility treatment

Scientists from Estonia and Spain have published a study in Human Reproduction, a top journal in the field, that can benefit the couples who have experienced repeated IVF failure. In 2017, more than 2,800 in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedures were carried out in Estonia, resulting in the birth of 430 babies, which accounts for 3%

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Getting off the ground with Estonian-founded RocketFuel scholarship

The Estonian-founded RocketFuel Scholarship, worth €1,000, helps those who want to learn some 21st century skills all by themselves, taking advantage of the multitude of online resources out there. “If you come from the humanities background like me and want to start programming, you’ll instantly get confused: there are so many options that will lead

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Jüri Allik: Four recipes for becoming a top researcher

Jüri Allik, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Tartu, belongs to the top one per cent of the world’s most cited scientists in his field. Here, Professor Allik unveils a few secrets to a researcher’s success.* This article is brought to you in collaboration with the University of Tartu blog. One might think there’s no need

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University researchers win a €3.1 million to help Estonian and other European police fight crime

Researchers from the University of Salford have won a €3.1 million funding bid to help police across Europe, including Estonia, find innovative ways to improve how they fight crime. The funding, awarded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Security Research Programme, will enable a team of academics to work closely with six European law enforcement

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Tallinn Technology University’s researcher receives a prestigious European grant

The senior researcher of the Tallinn University of Technology’s department of innovation and governance, Vasilis Kostakis, has been awarded a €1.1 million European Research Council starting grant – the only such grant awarded to an Estonian researcher this year. According to the university, Kostakis will use the grant for a four-year research project titled “Cosmolocalism”

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The Mindvalley University in Tallinn – a month full of international experts and learning

Estonian World visited the Mindvalley University’s Tallinn session and spoke with some of the attendees to find out more about the programme that calls itself “a tribe of changemakers”. The Estonian capital is crowded with tourists every summer from May to September, but one may have noticed that during the last month there was an

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