Estonian science

University of Tartu starts cooperation with India’s leading medical technology company

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The University of Tartu and India’s biggest medical technology company, Trivitron Healthcare Pvt Ltd, signed a memorandum of understanding, forming the basis of a broad scientific cooperation and furthering of medical education between India and Estonia. The cooperation will mainly be launched in areas related to mass spectrometry, microchips, sequencing, molecular diagnostics and biobanking. “The University […]

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Tartu University opens its new, modern physics building

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On 25 August, the University of Tartu opened its new modern building of the Institute of Physics, called Physicum, situated at the university’s Maarjamõisa science campus. The building of approximately 13,000 square metres provides contemporary facilities for research in physics, materials science and nanotechnology. “The new building of the Institute of Physics brings under one

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Performance of Estonian students among world’s best – PISA study

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The scholastic performance of Estonian 15-year-old students is among the best in the world and Europe, results of the international worldwide study Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) show. In science Estonia shares the first and second place in Europe with Finland, and among the 65 countries surveyed around the world, Estonian students placed between

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An Estonian-invented robot turtle will help underwater archaeologists inspect shipwrecks (video)

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The Robot Safari exhibition at the London Science Museum will see the world premiere of the Estonian-invented underwater robot, u-CAT, a highly manoeuvrable robot turtle, designed to penetrate shipwrecks. The u-CAT’s locomotion principle is similar to sea turtles. Independently driven four flippers make the robot highly manoeuvrable – it can swim forward and backward, up and

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How good is Estonian science?

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Twenty five scientists from Estonian universities belong to the top one per cent of the most cited scientists in the world. Twenty of them are from the University of Tartu. By Kristiina Kruuse The most referenced among them are Risto Näätänen, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Tartu, and Ülo Niinemets, a

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Estonia becomes a space nation

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Estonia’s first satellite, ESTCube-1, was rocketed off to orbit the Earth early morning on Tuesday, thus making Estonia the 41st nation to have a man-made object in space. Estonia has become the 41st nation to have a man-made object in space, beating out Finland and the other Baltic countries, all of which are due to launch their first satellites

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Flowscape navigating robot fish created at the Tallinn University of Technology (video)

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The EU funded European research project, based in Estonia, has built an electronic version of lateral line sensing on an underwater fish robot called FILOSE (Robotic FIsh LOcomotion and SEnsing). All fish have this sensing organ, but so far it had no technological counterpart on man-made underwater vehicles. Unlike any other animal, fish have a

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New IT hobby groups called Smartlabs for 10-19 year olds announced in Estonia, backed by Microsoft

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The creation of new hobby groups for 10-19 year olds involve getting instructed in robotics, programming, mobile app and web design. The idea was generated by Vaata Maailma Foundation which has been working on other IT education initiatives in Estonia since 2001 – such as helping with IT education programs for adults, as well as

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