Research In Estonia

social sciences

Results confirmed that obesity is associated with several personality traits. Photo credit: Unsplash, Diana Polekhina

Does personality influence body weight or vice versa?

Abel Polese speaking at Maldives National University. Photo credit: personal collection

New European-Asian Project to Study Pandemic’s Impact on Asian Informal Employment

Photo credit: Unsplash, Jonathan Borba

Silence Is Not Golden: Interactive Talk Promotes Children’s Speech Development

CoTrack uses a facial recognition programme to detect students’ emotions and collects data on the written and oral contributions to group work. Photo credit: Unsplash, Alexis Brown

New Smart Assistant Notices Idlers and Enhances Group Work Among Students

As people are getting their COVID-19 vaccinations, the airports will be soon buzzing. For many, though, the future will bring even more isolation. Photo credit: Pixabay

Vaccine passports will end the lockdown, but not for everyone

How much time and energy parents give their children matters more than previously thought. Photo credit: Pixabay/ Anastasia Gepp

Head size can show how we grew up, study shows

Photo credit: Unsplash, Camilo Jimenez

Growing influence of social media during COVID-19 crisis

Photo credit: Unsplash, Nick Fewings

International study reveals the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of public transport

Photo credit: Unsplash, Domenico Loia

Flexible working time as an opportunity to save costs and increase productivity

Around half of the population is retired in Transnistria. A stroll through Tiraspol during lockdown. Photo credit: private collection

Surviving isolation in an isolated place

Understanding vulnerabilities is important to ensure that children will succeed better in influencing their own lives positively. Photo credit: Aron Urb.

Being Aware of Vulnerabilities Help Children to Manage Their Lives Better

The 2016 election won by Donald Trump did not leave anyone indifferent.

Emotion regulation after a lost election

The research team led by Tuvikene is fanning out across Europe to investigate the metros, trams and buses in London, Brussels, Tallinn, Turku, Finland; Dunkirk, France; Leipzig, Germany; Kharkiv, Ukraine; Minsk, Belarus; and Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Photo credit: ERR / Siim Lõvi.

Science|Business: Is there more to public transport than moving people around?

Children are not just allowed to play with iPads in Estonian schools, they are expected to.

Estonians are building the school of tomorrow

Estonian teachers and schools are very open to innovation.

Cooperation contributes to innovation in education

learning

Estonian university leads an international innovation project

The kind of intervention developed by Prof. Harro and his team could prompt more people to drive within the speed limits or take traffic regulations more seriously. Photo credit: Taaniel Malleus.

Science|Business: Keeping drivers’ impulses in check

Project IKID research seminar at the University of Lausanne with participants from Estonia, Switzerland, Cambodia and Laos. Photo by: Aaro Hazak.

Studying South-East Asian transition economies is a success story of EU-funded research

ice cream

Can obesity be compared with addiction?

According to theory, people often use digital technologies to cope with negative emotions . Photo by: unsplash.com.

How excessive smartphone use may take its toll on mental health

2019_05_20-E-Residency_Rasmus-Jurkatam

E-residency contributes to the reproduction of digital inequalities

mudilased ja nutitelefonid (pixabay)

Every 5th tot under the age of 3 in Estonia uses smartphone daily

2019_05_06_RiE_vegan

How Estonian Vegan Men Challenge Stereotypes

Marlon Dumas

University of Tartu professor to develop AI for improving business processes

«
1
2
3
4
»

Get our monthly newsletterBe up-to-date with all the latest news and upcoming events