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Estonia
BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE GOVERNANCE OF SCIENCE IN ESTONIA
The higher education and research potential in Estonia is concentrated in two main cities, Tallinn and Tartu. In Estonia, R&D is closely connected to the universities. There are also several research institutes performing research at high level.
The new research, development and innovation strategy document for 2007-2013, Knowledge-based Estonia II, sees Estonia as an innovative, highly competitive, successful country within the European research and economic area.
The strategy emphasizes the necessity for a long-term perspective in R&D investments, in order to better weigh the impacts and requirements arising from external factors (global trends in scientific, technological and economic development; the internationalization of research and etc.) as well as internal factors - the need to apply scientific knowledge to meet socio-economic challenges. The document highlights the key role of human resources and the transfer of knowledge in raising the quality of R&D and building the innovative capacity of industry.
The science reform implemented in the 1990s led to the integration of research institutes (former institutes of the Estonian Academy of Science, also institutes subordinated to various ministries) into universities. Nowadays, most research and development in Estonia is performed at universities. The largest public research university is the University of Tartu, followed by the Tallinn University of Technology, the Estonian University of Life Sciences and Tallinn University.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCIENCE & RESEARCH COOPERATION ESTONIA - BELARUS
The Estonian Academy of Sciences (EAS) and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) in 2002 concluded Agreement on scientific cooperation. As annex to the Agreement the Protocol on currency-free equivalent scientists exchange was signed, that provides mutual scientific visits realization on terms of financing stay expenses by hosting Academy (the annual exchange quota is 30 man-day for each Academy).
A number of Agreements and Protocols on cooperation is signed on the level of scientific institutes and universities of two countries.
The main funding opportunities currently open for science and research cooperation between Belarus and Estonia relate to the EU programmes, namely the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP). (See chapter on European Community Research).
© National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011
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