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Estonian entrepreneurs launch a substantial education fund to support innovation

By / December 5, 2018 / 3 minutes of reading

Several Estonian entrepreneurs have launched the Good Deed Education Fund, with a goal to provide seed capital for innovative initiatives in Estonian education; the fund plans to contribute €1 million to impactful educational initiatives. The fund is led by the Good Deed Foundation that has a long-term experience in launching …

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Podcast: How social media representation influences students

By / December 4, 2018 / 2 minutes of reading

In collaboration with Tallinn University, Estonian World publishes podcasts recorded by the students; the first episode features Katrin Tiidenberg on the topic, “How social media representation influences students and their relationship to fellow students?” The new Current Events Podcast at Tallinn University helps students try their hand at creating and …

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Smart devices don’t make you better in your work

By / December 4, 2018 / 7 minutes of reading

The Estonian neuroscientist, Jaan Aru, explains why smartphone addiction can have negative consequences. No one regrets in the last hour of their life that “I didn’t respond faster to an e-mail”. But for some reason, people think that constantly checking e-mails on a smart device and answering them right away …

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Estonian students are building the country’s first self-driving formula car

By / March 1, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading

The Formula Student Team Tallinn, a joint project of Tallinn University of Technology and Tallinn University of Applied Sciences, is constructing a self-driving formula race car. The Formula Student Team Tallinn is an 80-member student organisation that has already built an electric-powered formula car and is now constructing a self-driving …

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

By / November 22, 2018 / 2 minutes of reading

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. …

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

By / November 1, 2018 / 4 minutes of reading

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 …

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Getting off the ground with Estonian-founded RocketFuel scholarship

By / October 25, 2018 / 6 minutes of reading

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 …

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Jüri Allik: Four recipes for becoming a top researcher

By / September 3, 2018 / 17 minutes of reading

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 …

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